I did it! I got A Cat For Troy finished! Well, it still has to go through beta reading and revisions, but it’s written! Yay ‘n stuff! We’re on countdown for a response from the agent who asked for the … Continue reading →
Excitement!!! I had a literary agent ask for a partial (first 50 pages) of Wishes in a Bottle, the first book of my Wishes & Dreams paranormal romance series. In the end she declined to see more… but she seemed … Continue reading →
Excitement!!! This week’s excitement was the request for a FULL MANUSCRIPT of SwanSong, the first book in my Sons of the Desert series, from the literary agent who made my day a couple of weeks ago by asking for a … Continue reading →
UPDATE: April 7th. Not much change from last Saturday, except….!!! I finally got the troublesome scene written in A Cat For Troy that’s been holding me up these last several weeks. So I have a very good chance of wrapping … Continue reading →
Not much change except I’ve gotten over the block on that one major transition scene in A Cat For Troy that was holding me back. I’m going full tilt at finishing that scene and its aftermath, and finishing the manuscript … Continue reading →
I got stuck the last couple of weeks on just one (crucial, pivotal) scene, that just wasn’t working out. Thanks to a suggestion by a fabulous writer friend, I got it back on track, so I’m back to looking at … Continue reading →
There’s not so much change from last week. My focus is on the revisions of A CAT FOR TROY. I’m going to be going to Romance Writers of America annual national conference in Denver this summer, and my plan is … Continue reading →
So far so good. I’ve gotten professional editing done on SWANSONG and WISHES IN A BOTTLE. The primary focus now is to finish A CAT FOR TROY, the third and final book of the Wishes & Dreams series. I’d like … Continue reading →
I did it! I finished the revisions on A Gift of Jacinth, and it’s open for beta reading! That’s huuuge, and I’m so glad that it’s done!! As a reminder, if you’re interested in being a beta reader, I’ve got my … Continue reading →
Again not much change from last week’s plan. I’m almost done with A Gift of Jacinth, I have done all the POV re-writes, and have one highly emotional/traumatic scene to write (I’ve been procrastinating on that, yes, but plan/hope to … Continue reading →
Again not much change from last week’s plan. My highest priority right now is still to get revisions done on A Gift of Jacinth, with a target goal of being finished by the end of this month, latest. I’m almost … Continue reading →
Not much change from last week’s plan. I got a good start on the February newsletter. My highest priority right now is getting revisions done on A Gift of Jacinth, with a target goal of being finished by the end … Continue reading →
Starting out the New Year with revisions!!! I won’t be working on unfinished books, until I’ve finished revising the ones what have been written, beginning to end, and gotten them revised, edited, polished and ready for submission. Manuscript Status: Three … Continue reading →
I have a New Year’s tradition of my very own. Starting NY Eve and going through NY Day, I back up EVERYTHING on my computer to an internal drive and to my external Passport drive. Not the programs, just data… … Continue reading →
As a perpetual Christmas orphan (i.e., having no family nearby so I spend the holidays alone), I usually dive into my manuscript(s) and power through to stave off the alone-on-Christmas blues. This isn’t one of those years. Last week I … Continue reading →
Nothing new to report… I’m revising A Gift of Jacinth to bring in more of the hero and heroine from the first book, Wishes in a Bottle. Something interesting I hadn’t noticed overall when I wrote it, most of the … Continue reading →
Okay my BIG news this week is that WISHES IN A BOTTLE took second place in paranormal romance in the Melody of Love Contest, sponsored by Music City Romance Writers Chapter of RWA 🙂 Now NaNoWriMo is over, and so … Continue reading →
I did it!! I finished NaNoWriMo… on my birthday, no less! I won’t bore you with details, because I already wrote a blog post about it, you can read it here though! But here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: I WON NaNo … Continue reading →
Not much change from last week. It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’m still writing away. I hit the halfway mark this week, and at the time of this writing, I’m at 28,652 total word count. I did run into … Continue reading →
Not much change from last week. It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’m going to write! I’m still working on my main project, finishing (hopefully) A Cat For Troy, the third and last of my Wishes & Dream paranormal romance … Continue reading →
For this month, the writing plan is going to be pretty easy… It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’m going to write! My main project is to finish A Cat For Troy, the third and last of my Wishes & … Continue reading →
With NaNoWriMo coming up on November 1st, the writing plan is pretty simple. Between now and then, work on When Darkness Falls and making up freezer meals, then on Nov 1st, write!! I have a bunch of NaNo Prep tasks on … Continue reading →
This is pretty much the same as last week… I’m pushing myself to try to get When Darkness Falls finished by this coming Friday, then take a few days to let my mind clear and switch tracks for NaNoWriMo on … Continue reading →
This week was Wowsa! I got requests for not one but TWO full manuscripts! I’ll be spending this weekend formatting it per the publisher’s specs. On Monday, I was laying in bed half asleep thinking about how I’m supposed to … Continue reading →
I’ve got the first two chapters of A Gift of Jacinth and When Darkness Falls out to beta readers so I can enter them in a contest this week. Still trying to decide if I want to enter A Cat … Continue reading →
