Offered Contract!

Well, today I woke up and decided that I would hear some great news! I did. My editor with The Wild Rose Press offered me a contract for The Changeling, my paranormal romance manuscript. I am so happy about this. Not only that the story has a home but to have it accepted by a great editor! The woman is officially a Goddess in my eyes!

She actually had the gall to make with cry with her praise of my submission. Only a rare few can do that to me! Well, maybe more than a few!

Then to top this fantastic news off, I found out that Fallen Angels Reviews posted their review for my short story The Witch Within to day too.

Here it is!

A Five Angel review! I'm totally speechless about all of this.

I will be riding high for the rest of the week!

New Furniture

Found out yesterday that my new furniture will arrive on Wednesday morning of next week! I can't wait to receive it and setup my living room up. Yay!

My family and I have been working hard at improving the house. Adding equity to the property but for me it's more than that. It's being able to look around and see comfort. Not that my old stuff wasn't comfortable but geesh...it was 17 years old and sagging, sort of like me. The new furniture will give me a boost. I know it will because I have been pumped since I painted my house and put new floors in last week.

And to add to this great news, I am having my desk moved back into the house this weekend so that means no more excuses about writing. It's about time too. I have the ending to my short in line with The Witch Within. I want to finish that up and send it to TWRP. Then, hopefully I will have two shorts and (keeping my fingers crossed) a novel with them. It's a good start for this year. I'm really hoping this year will be grand for me followed by an even grander next year!

New Year, New Start, New Outlook and I don't mean email!

I've been brewing for the past few weeks, between painting and putting new floors in my house. My desk is in the barn and hopefully will be back in the house this weekend. By then, I will probably be ready to explode from lack of writing. I've been plotting in my head but the urge to sit down and compose is overpowering me. I look forward to it.

I suppose I feel the need to try expanding on my writing. My novel "The Changeling" was rejected by several top publishers. All of them thought I am a very talented author but they couldn't relate to the characters. Duh! Same old problem with me. Now is the time to fix that about my novel writing. Digging deeper into the characters to make them three dimensional and not two. Just one more step in that direction. Just a baby step.

After the rejection from the top pubs, I sent the story to TWRP, explaining that it had been rejected and asked if they wanted to see it. My editor there told me to send it to her. She then sent it to her reader who send back a great response to the story. Now I am waiting for the editor to review the book and let me know if TWRP wants it. There are certain parts that I want to change and fix. The editor even commented that she would work with me on adding dimension if they take the book so I do have that to rejoice in. Now to keep waiting until I hear something.

Growing with creating is part of being a writer and though it's not what I desire from this craft, it is a necessity. And with all growth spurts, it can be very painful.

Thanksgiving Week

Just two more days and Thanksgiving is here. I was right, this year has flown by. Seems like just yesterday, my family and I were celebrating it last year. AND oh my God! Christmas is only a month away. I am the world's worse at buying gifts early. I really, really hate that too!

Sigh...well, there's no helping it. I will, once again, have to fight the traffic, long lines and miscellaneous other delays to shopping.

One thing that wasn't delayed and that's the release of my short story, The Witch Within. It's set to come out November 28, 2007 from The Wild Rose Press. I am really excited about this story. It's a spooky tale. I have always avoided reading ghost stories or anything like that. Stephen King is a great author, or so I have been told. I don't read him, I don't watch the movies. Just emotionally can't do it. Scares the bejesus out of me.

So, I never, ever, never dreamed I would write a scary story. And you know what? It didn't bother me to write the scary parts. Not at all. Now, please don't think I'm cured from whatever kept me from reading, watching those in the past. Still creeps me out, but it's like I can remove myself from my writing long enough to not be bothered. Of course, my story isn't anything like King's. He's Obi Wann! I'm Luke.

I wish everyone tremendous Blessings over this Thanksgiving week!

Wow! A whole year!

To make this short and sweet, I will tell you why it's been so long. I lost my password and my id to be able to blog. Duh!

Okay, I'm blonde...what else is there to say!

Alot has been going on this year. I've had another short story (approx. 17k words) accepted by The Wild Rose Press. I'm really excited about that story. It's coming out 0n November 28, 2007 so keep a watch out for that date!

Repeats, Over and Over Again

Okay, I admit it, I'm guilty of doing this in my writing. I repeat without even realizing it, then when I go in to edit the work, I end up missing them. 'Tis one aspect of my writing that I have work at improving.

Take my contemporary. Jennifer Greene, editor for one of Harlequin's line, commented on the repetitions in my submission. Worked through them and added some more to the story. Well, guess what I did with the new stuff. Repeated again and again. Maybe it's that one book, maybe it's not. What's really bad is that I never noticed until one of my critique partners pointed it out to me. Sooo, it's back to red penning the manuscript for another check for the dratted repeats.

Creativity

That is exactly what I want right now. I'm going to be off from work for two weeks during the holidays and I'm hoping to finish creating. That's the hardest part, editing what you write so that it is not only acceptable to you but also to the editor but will be enjoyed by the reader.

That's my ultimate goal is to keep writing for the readers' pleasure. I want them to be in my heroine's shoes or hold my hero's sword as he's battling an enemy. Hopefully I will have accomplished my goal at the end of the story.

So now, I am gearing up to do major major writing so I can send out some things. I want 2007 to be a great year of writing for me. To do this, I have to make sure that I do all I can to achieve this.

Here's to my goals and my calendar as I pencil in all the things I want to do!