I have been a bit preoccupied with life and the pursuit of happiness… or maybe that was the pursuit of chocolate… hmmm either way would make me happy to find… Ahem… So, I thought I would update you on… everything! Running: I am almost in week four of my Couch to 5K running program. I [...]

That was the sound of me shooting myself in the foot… or was it? If you have been following my writing/editing/querying/going insane process, you will know one of two things… I am crazy… and I just spent three months perfecting my query. Okay maybe 2 months 29 days… but still. You might also know that [...]

With my query process over… yes, I said it over. Well, okay… maybe it’s not OVER over, but it’s over as far as writing goes. It has the stamp of approval from a industry rep, now I just have to send it out. So, really it’s just beginning of the process, but… ahhh it’s over. [...]

What do you do with a query letter that has been written fifty times, give or take ten or fifteen? Toss it? Keep it? I think my error came in keeping each version… now when I debate on which query I need to work on, I have too many to choose from! So, I did [...]

I feel like Dorthy in the wizard of Oz, things are spiraling out of control and I am going to land SOMEWHERE then know, I am not in Kansas anymore. It all started with a novel… one I am passionate about. One I have cared for and grown for the past eight years… one that [...]

Sorry about the lack of participation in the twitterverse, blogosphere or really anywhere yesterday! I had a lot of things going on. First, I had a trial run with a four-month-old. Happy to say it went well and she will be joining our daily crew… we needed another girl in this house. The testosterone was [...]

Phew! What a pain in my tookus! For the past couple days I have been walking through, The Rings of Time… Chapter by Chapter. Only mildly distracted by twitter (hahaha) I finally finished last night around 10:00pm. What a relief. My purpose behind running through each chapter (all 37 of them) was simple… I needed to [...]

So, if you have been following this blog even for a couple days, you know I am knee deep in the query process. But not the process of sending, the process of revising. I posted a blog below about what I have learned and gleaned from this process. Yet still, I struggle with the query. [...]

Whoa, if you thought writing a novel was hard, try fitting your whole novel on one page and having it make sense! THAT is hard… So the query writing continues. But goodness, I am learning so much about it every day. Things that I will take with me into the wild blue yonder when I [...]