Posted in Uncategorized on 03. Sep, 2010
Friday again already?
Well, I am headed to the park in a little while so I only have a few minutes to Flash, but Flash I will. Today’s flash will be about the two cats that are arguing for placement here in my house…
Enjoy!
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“Pepper?” The voice of the man in the white coat called through the bars. “You’ve been busted out.”
Posted in Uncategorized on 02. Sep, 2010
Anne reminded me I didn’t update you all about the Unseen Chronicles. Technically there still is no update. They are moving stories based on true events that really go to a new level. The last one I wrote kinda went a… well… a direction I hadn’t intended for the person I wrote it for. Definitely [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 28. Aug, 2010
Okay, I was reaching a little with the title… But I just loved the Friday Flash title I had to do it again. Oh. But does that mean I have to write something? Drat, I can’t. My body has decided to rebel against all forms of sleep. I tried to trick it into submission by staying up past 2:00am to do some work… It seemed to be working when I fell asleep, then ceased working when I woke at 7:30am…
Really? How am I surviving? I am a 10-12 hour girl. Not a 5 hour girl!
THIS IS NOT OKAY… Someone take note. Then stick that note to my brain so it can read it when it’s attempting to wake me up too early.
But, I refused to nap today. In fact, I got a lot of work done and even Alpha read 50 pages tonight for one of my critique partners! So all in all, lack of sleep = productive… today.
Tomorrow… all bets are off. I hope everyone is okay with take out… cuzz I may just be a zombie or something.
Though, Zombie’s eat brains… and while I am going on a missions trip in December… that is not on my to-try list. #justsayin
I should go… before I have to delete this post in the morning.
(side note… I tried to find a couple pics to go with this post… I may have nightmares tonight.)
Posted in Uncategorized on 27. Aug, 2010
It’s been a while since I flashed… I didn’t sleep well last night so I can’t be held responsible for what comes forth. Ha! A woman and her son just walked by in front of my house… So I will go with that.
Enjoy!
The woman walked at a quickened pace down the empty street, “Jeremy, hurry up.” She called after her child on the bright red Radio Flyer tricycle.
Jeremy weaved circles in the sidewalk, making customary vrooming sounds as he imagined himself darting the bad guys. He was a superhero, after all.
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Posted in Novels on 26. Aug, 2010
This week I am critiquing for two friends, whom I am honored to call friends. You know who you are. Both have excellent stories, one of which I have read once before and still want to read again (that’s saying something!). It’s totally going to the top once she finds rep… which she pretty much has with a few nips and tucks. And the other is a new MS I am just newly laying my eyes on, but has tremendous potential to be a New York Times Bestseller as well!
I love critiquing for my friends because they realize I’m not out to get them. I’m just trying to nitpick the heck out of their MS so they will maybe find a diamond amongst all the coal I’m throwing at them. I have different forms of critiquing but both of my friends asked for brutal… which is hard. I have to turn off the “Its only your opinion, Eisley” and interject “Eisley, say what?” [...more...]
Posted in Reviews on 25. Aug, 2010
Have you been living under a rock the past few months? Even years? Then maybe you haven’t heard of the most recent craze of THE HUNGER GAMES.
The final installment of this series by Suzanne Collins just came out yesterday and twitter was raging with people procuring their copies and neglecting their responsibilities to read it. Those who read it are biting their tongues to talk about it now… Thankfully unwilling to spoil the ending for those of us who haven’t jumped ship yet. [...more...]
Posted in Life, Middle Grade, Novels, Query on 24. Aug, 2010
Being away for vacation for seven weeks is amazing… but it means I have tons to do now that I am home. Like update you all on the progress of my novels, life, the pursuit of an agent, etc… So pardon the Epicosity of this blog post…
Posted in Life, Middle Grade, Query on 15. Aug, 2010
It’s almost time for my vacation hiatus to end… We leave California in 56 hours. Not that I’m counting, but I know people who will appreciate the count down My vacation has been awesome. I missed my family dearly (it had been 3 years since visiting last! TOO LONG!) and spent some awesome time with everyone! We had a [...]
Posted in Middle Grade on 28. Jul, 2010
Yes, this post is about the dreaded first person point of view… And yes, people write in it well… And again yes, I am one of them… well… err… okay. At least I think I so.
I wrote my first MS RINGS OF TIME (Mandorian Prophecies – YA Fantasy) in third person. Since it was my first book and it took me upwards of five years to write, it was awesome and didn’t need much to be perfect.
*cue the bozo the clown music*
Posted in Query on 20. Jul, 2010
Did you know it doesn’t take a break when you are on vacation? Well, I suppose you could take a break on vacation, but I haven’t. So today I sent out a few more queries… okay fifteen. I have my goals to meet here and I haven’t been sticking to my guns since the “No’s” have come in… My goal was to send at least two more queries each time I received a “No”… but since I was on vacation I hadn’t done it for lack of time to sit and research or whatever. That is my excuse anyway…
But now, since I have some down time… I counted the “No’s” that came in and sent some new queries out. Now we wait again… FUN! 
Indeed it’s fun in warped kinda way…
However, I thought you would be interested to see my statistics from my query process.
