I’ve decided to post chapter one from my third book. Keep in mind, this is all fresh stuff. Never been read by anyone but yours truly. But hey, I’m not a selfish gal. I would absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear feedback! CHAPTER ONE The castle appeared again. Right over…
The Princess Bride. The movie is on my top ten list, so why have I never read the book? Well, now am I. Can I just say–it’s awesome. So funny. Very different from what I’ve been reading lately but very entertaining.
No news this week but I did send out three more queries. I try not to think about it too much or I’ll get really anxious. One of the agents considering my novel posted her stats. She reads 36,000 queries a year, requests the first thirty pages of about 1,200,…
# of queries sent since I started querying: 27 # of requests: 2!!! Can you tell I’m happy about this? And just for fun, I want to post a snippet from my second book, FORGOTTEN. To get you up to speed, this scene takes place with my two main…
As promised, this weeks stats. Submissions sent this week: 8 Responses: 0 Total number of queries floating in cyberspace waiting for a response: 15 Yes, I haven’t heard any news this week. However, I did go to the hospital yesterday for an EGD and the doctor found a big ol’…
It takes guts to send out queries. No matter how thick your skin, rejection hurts. You’ve put your time, your SOUL into writing, and now you get one, maybe two lines of “not right for us.” I’ve decided to put my guts out there, so to speak. I’ve started querying…
I have a daily word goal of writing 1,000 words a day. (Now you know why I never blog.) A few days ago I’d hit the 700 word mark, took a break, came back to the computer when Word encountered a “fatal error.” Basically my words were lost and they…
Maybe I can call this hocus pocus. Sounds like a good name for it. But sometimes I have weird things happen to me. I don’t know if it has a name, but here’s an example. Two days ago I was driving home, kids in the car, radio turned on the…
I realize some of you must be frustrated with me. I’ve been going on and on about how I’ve started writing, yet most of you have no clue what I’m even writing about. This is your lucky break. Today, I will share the big secret. This is actually the query…
