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.
Posted in Uncategorized on 05. Jul, 2010
I’m so excited… we are finally able to head out to California for a much needed and long awaited vacation to see my parents and sisters. It’s been three years since I took a “vacation” to California… I know, shocking. Especially for someone like me who used to spend summers in California EVERY year! With [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 01. Jul, 2010
Today I was out gallivanting around town… Okay. Maybe I was really just running errands… but I like the gallivanting much more then I like errand running.
Beside the point… While I was out I came across this awesome van. See exhibit A.
You can’t tell in the picture but this was an awesome van. The dents in the side. The bumpers all mashed up… Heavy metal stickers all over the back and window. And the dude behind the wheel, didn’t look like he belonged there! At the stoplight… I see some small punctures in the gate at the back… is that… BULLET HOLES?!?!
*GASP*
Cue writers mind… and back story pondering. And more pondering… still more.
Enter Flash Fiction for today:
Colin ran his fingers down the length of the bumper, tracing the massive dent pressed into the rusted metal. The way that SUV had charged him, it’s a wonder how the bumper was still attached.
He laughed. A similar dent adorned the front bumper. Last month, he hadn’t taken into consideration the tab he might incur parking in a paid lot for seven days. He hadn’t brought any cash and he wasn’t about to give them his credit card to be pegged anywhere near that location. The arm on the security gate snapped in two when the rust colored 1988 Toyota Liteace he’d picked up back in Denver barreled through it.
He wasn’t an outlaw, quite the contrary. The law paid him… well at least that is what he told himself. The steel voice on the phone reassured him every time he got a new assignment that he worked for government. But he knew better, the less he knew, the better off he was.
Colin reached into his back pocket and pulled out a Metallica sticker. The last five he’d stuck to the back gate to cover bullet holes. This one was just because he liked even numbers. He stepped back and looked over the van. He didn’t know how long this piece of metal would hold out. He estimated with the damage done from the last confrontation that he might only have one more head to head before he would have to find another vehicle to destroy.
The cell phone on his hip roared to life, bringing his admiration for his stickers to a close.
“Yeah?” His deep surly voice echoed through the dry air.
The voice on the other side was cold and quick, “We need you in Vegas, tonight.”
“On my way,” he said and disconnected the line. He flipped the keys in his hand and grinned at the dent in the driver’s door. He needed one to match on the other side.
Posted in Uncategorized on 30. Jun, 2010
And wow was it good. Forget the crappy white pastey make-up of movie one… Forget the crappy costumes and acting of movie two… And just think movie three as –THEY GOT IT! No spoilers…. but it was truly the better of the three and it won’t leave the book readers unhappy.
Posted in Novels on 29. Jun, 2010
I have a few friends who are struggling right now with writers block. They aren’t sure what to write, which angle to write at, which character, what story. It’s hard to come up to a block and not feel stressed out… you struggle so much with where it should go, what should happen next and [...]
Posted in Middle Grade, Novels, Query on 26. Jun, 2010
DEGLAN RISING is out on a full request with “Superstar Agent”… Now what? Do I write something else? Do I edit one of my other novels? I have written three others, two of them could go on query today and the other has already been on query… before it was rewritten in April/May. Or do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 25. Jun, 2010
It’s true… I got a request today from an agent for a FULL. If you need me… I will be in the corner… dead.
