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Fairy-tale dream comes true for amateur writd
By April Towery
The Battalion
F or Cindy King Boettcher, a doctoral student in the
College of Education, an in-class project could end up
being a life-changing career opportunity.
Boettcher recently completed her first children’s book,
“Anna Meagan: The Aggie Cinderella Story,” which has
sold more than 2,500 copies in four weeks.
Boettcher wrote the book for an assignment in a chil
dren’s literature class. The assignment was to put a new
twist on a traditional tale, and Boettcher chose to
remake Cinderella.
Boettcher said the story is special to her not only
because of her involvement at Texas A&M, but also
because she is a collector of Cinderella stories.
“Most people don’t know that there are over 800 ver
sions of the Cinderella
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said. “The first one
was written in China
in 850 A.D.”
Boettcher has
more than 100 ver
sions of the fairy tale
in her home.
A colleague of
Boettcher’s in the
College of Education,
Leanne South, said
factual perfection
was imperative in the
process of writing
the book.
“There’s one thing
for certain when writing about the Aggies — get your story
straight,” she said. “That was the hard part of writing Anna
Meagan.’”
Boettcher did two years of research, interviews and sur
veys in order to get it right. She kept the story parallel to the
traditional Cinderella story, and true to Aggie tradition.
In the story, Anna Meagan (A&M) is a young education
major who wants to go to Ring Dance. She is a custodian in
her dorm and cannot afford a dress and does not have a
date. The girls in her dorm make fun of her, so she walks to
the Quadrangle, where Reveille becomes the fairy "god-
dog” and waves the Twelfth Man towel (his magic wand) to
get Anna Meagan a date to the dance.
She dances all night with a senior cadet, but must go
back to her dorm when the Albritton Bell Tower strikes
midnight. She loses her shoe on the steps of Rudder Tower,
so the cadet advertises in The Battalion for the owner of the
shoe to meet him under the Century Tree. The two meet
again and walk off arm in arm.
Boettcher said she enjoyed writing the book so much
that she wants to continue writing.
“It was such a fun project,” Boettcher said. “I really enjoy
writing A&M books, but I also have a couple of Christian
books I’d like to see about getting published.
Boettcher is currently working on a new project called
“Whoop, Whoop,” the story of 4-year-old twins going to
their first Aggie football game. Tammie Bissett, who illus
trated “Anna Meagan,” will also create the pictures for
Boettcher’s second book.
Bissett has been illustrating professionally for 15 years,
and fulltime doing paintings for A&M for two-and-a-half
years. She designed the cover of the A&M-Colorado foot
ball program, the Southwest Conference poster and other
A&M-related artwork.
“I want my art to be more of a collector’s item,”
Bissett said.
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Bissett said she had a great experience working on
book with Boettcher.
"I couldn’t ask for anyone sweeter to work with," Bis
said. “We were a team; she really helped me.”
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October because they were worried about running low
supplies.
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