@MeganCurd and I debated this via twitter/text messages last night. I told her eventually this process would end…

@MeganCurd: Have you seen this ending? Because I think you’re making it all up.
@EisleyJacobs: *I* haven’t seen the end… But I know it exists!!! It’s coming… For one of my books…Not the first, nor the second but maybe the third or fourth.
@MeganCurd: …or the seventeenth. Whichever.

I then put her on ignore for the rest of the night.

Well, okay. Not really. It was time for me to head to bed but I did reply with something like “LA LA LA LA LA not listening..”. Or something. I can’t really remember.

Ahem. [...read more of this fascinating post...]

What do pneumonia and writing have in common? Well, they both keep you trapped in your bedroom for a while and won’t let you out until it’s OVER.

Yup. I’m guilty on both accounts.

The writing one is a gimmie… I have a few requests and of course before you can send these requests you have to spit shine and freak out a while. So yup, that is totally what I am doing. But, I get to deal with sickness as well.

It’s really not too bad. I caught it in time and it gives me an excuse to plow through 6,000 or so words in one day. Even when I sit and stare at twelve of those words for two hours… Oh yes, that was real today. However, I think I have those twelve conquered… and they’ve evolved into like eight instead.

Luckily my fever is down, because I’m not sure what this feverish stupor would have produced as far as words go. I mean true enough the funniest things are said when you are not fully in your right mind, but this isn’t quite that type of book. Though, there is this one part that I got extra snarky in… we’ll see what my critique partner says.

So, if you need me… I will be upstairs behind a closed door, recovering from this bacteria from (you know where) that has wreaked havoc on my family for the past 3 weeks. I am just the lucky one to get it last.

If I was asked to sum up the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference in one word, that word would be: WOW.

The networking opportunities are endless! However, not everywhere is the appropriate place to use your networking strategies. The elevator; yes. The coffee shop; yes. The workshops; yes. The dinner table; maybe. The bathroom; a big NO. And this means ANY bathroom! I just can’t stress enough that even if an agent uses the personal bathroom in your own hotel room, this is not a time to pitch to her. No, I didn’t try to pitch to Sandra Bond, but she did use our bathroom. Our room was next door to the hospitality suite and there was a line! So why not. [...more...]

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...]

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…

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 [...]

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 [...]

Okay, here we go on the Evolution of the Query… Take 2 on Deglan Rising. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think… it’s a work in progress but it’s close Oh and go me, I finished Deglan Rising on Friday! Wooot! QUERY: Deglan Rising Ten years ago a legend was born, [...]

I decided to share my query from start to finish for my MG novel. ALL comments are welcome and I do mean that. Hack it up, compliment, just say something. LOL My decision to share it comes with the fact the novel just went over the half way mark and the kids are still loving [...]

We all go through different seasons of our lives. Good, bad, ugly, beautiful… Our children growing, death, new jobs, promotions, new circumstances, etc. Seasons are important to our lives almost as much as they are to our writing. Because as a writer we go through different seasons as we write/edit/submit our novels. We all know this. [...]