Which sometimes can be a blow, considering it’s your tip top agent! But at the same time, I think it’s good for your character to get a no. It helps move your forward and to the final goal of publication.

So yes, I did push send on five queries this morning… and I feel pretty good about it. I am actually thinking I will get at least one partial or full out of these requests. Not holding my breath, but I am crossing my fingers. *wink*

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Ten years ago, a legend was born among the Teken Clansmen; one Lord Arthus intends to keep secret.

Each Teken is born with a mark, but tenth year Deglan Borian’s mark has been morphing again, unlike any of his peers. His sleep is plagued with danger and a pale faced girl who is calling for him to find her. When the Teken authorities catch wind of his mark, Deglan’s parents encourage him to find the girl, regardless of where it takes him.

Daydreamer Meia is a troubled foster child who moves to a new home every few months. When she’s not in the clouds, she spends her time in a make believe world, far from the cares of the schoolyard. Normal ten-year-old girls dream of tea parties and dolls, but not Meia. Her dreams come from the pages of an adventure book and stretch well into the fantasy world and beyond.

Meia can hardly contain her joy when her new foster parents decide to take her on the vacation of a lifetime. The Cook Islands have been the backdrop for her dreams since before she could remember.

When Meia meets Deglan on the Penrhyn atoll, both of their lives will change forever. Secrets of the legend come to life and haunt their every move. Only one minor problem… Meia is a human and Deglan is… a dragon.

Delgan Rising is a Midgrade Fantasy complete at 37,500 words.

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By the way… this is in rough draft form!

Without further adieu…

Deglan Rising a 30-35K Midgrade Fantasy Novel

The time of rising has come for those of age in the Teken Clan. Marked at birth, each Teken must accept the role given to them to continue their society as it has always been. No one has ever dared challenge the ways of the Teken… until now.

Ten-year-old Deglan knows he is different from the rest of his Clansmen. While his classmates excel in their instruction, Deglan’s mind wonders about far off places he’s sure exist outside the borders of their Island Nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Deglan’s peers anxiously anticipate the Rising Ceremony, which takes place under the lunar eclipse, each knowing they will finally have a purpose to life. Deglan, on the other hand, can’t shake the feeling that he was meant for more than this.

Plagued with nightmares after finding out his mark may doom him, Deglan awakes the morning of the eclipse to find Teken authorities breaking down his door. His parents encourage him to flee and follow the voice in his dream to journey across his world and into the next searching for the answers to the meaning of his life. When he crosses paths with Meia, a face and voice from his dreams, he wonders if she could be the key to his destiny.

Only one problem, Meia is from the forbidden human clan and Deglan is… a dragon.

(EDITED with MVs Suggestions)

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The funniest/craziest part of this request… I didn’t query for it.

No, true story! Honest!

I did query HER… sorta, if you could call that a query I sent. It was more like a “Umm yah, here is the deal *blah* and what do you think?” #truestory, you can ask her when she is my awesome agent…! Anyhow, my email was about my non-fiction stuff. And so she emailed me back and basically said she was “fascinated” by the ideas and then proceeded to ask me for a partial of my fiction novel.

*SWEET*

Only umm, which do I give her? ROTFL… I have three completed. And she reps all three… Can you say PERFECT AGENT?! And one of my top 5… umm panic.

Yes, I have been saying “umm” a lot since reading the email.

So needless to say… I am polishing my RINGS OF TIME and sending it to her immediately. Wow, just wow.

If you need me… I will be slaving away at the spit shinning thing… or fainted on the floor. Whichever.

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Adopt it. Live it. Breath it. It’s on!

The band is SuperChick and the song is from the album Beauty from Pain…

IT’S ON

And now for the Lyrics…

It all comes down to this
You take your best shot, might miss
You take it anyway
You’re gonna make your move today
Got the will, you’ll find the way
To change the world someday
Grab this moment before it’s gone
Today’s today
Got the will, you’ll find the way
To change the world someday
Grab this moment before it’s gone
Today’s your day..

It’s on and on
It’s on and on
Today’s your day
So c’mon bring it on

And the view will never change
Unless you decide to change it
Don’t feel like it today
Just show up anyway
And though life will take you down
It only matters if you let it
Get up, go through, press on
Today’s your day

It’s on and on
It’s on and on
Today’s your day
So c’mon bring it on

And though life will take you down
It only matters if you let it
Get up, go through, press on,
Today’s your day

It’s on and on
It’s on and on
Today’s your day
So c’mon bring it on

—
Ahhhh their lyrics say it so… so… SO very well. It’s work. It’s hard. You are going to get knocked down. Press on. Today’s your day.

I am sending out 5 queries today. It’s sooo on.

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In any event, if I don’t make goals for the week, things aren’t going to go as well as they could. Turning older takes thought and consideration. If I don’t have it written down, I just might think too much about the fact I am almost old…er.

So, goals… Yes.

• Finish my UNSEEN CHRONICLE on Good Friday events. Its a long one… I thought it would be a quick 2K story… now pushing 4 and I am not done yet. I am not sure why I didn’t expect that. We are talking major events here. I am just hoping to do it justice.
• Not think about the fact I am older… Must be on my list.
• Raise more support for Ethiopia (See that post here) because I need to turn in my first deposit on May 1st and this is totally something I feel like I need to do!
• Not think about the fact I turned in a partial and it’s on her desk now… :-0 Try to focus on something else… anything else.
• Switch up my kids book. I realized it’s missing… SOMETHING. Yah, Uber Secret here LOL YA is so hot right now you have to be else someone will snatch it up LOL
• Try to get DS7 into the doctor for allergies/asthma/RAD/RSV he struggles and he sounds like a seal today.
• Plant my garden… after the snow. Goodness, gotta love Colorado! Yes, it’s going to snow.
• Drink a lot of coffee.
• Read the third Percy Jackson book
• School with kiddos, I can’t believe it’s April already! Where did my year go?
• Make my own doctor appointment to find out what is up with the hip pain after running recently. (Old… old, old, old is going to be the answer… I am sure.)
• Not thinking about the emails I am NOT receiving regarding my partial
• And just generally have a great week…

Sounds like a good set of goals to me… and not terribly unobtainable.

*DS7 coughs barks in the background*

Time to go make that appointment…

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What am I talking about… well, so glad you asked.

On Monday an agent (one we will call “Lovely Agent”) tweeted that she was being quite the pushover… so everyone should query her today.

Ohh! Lovely Agent, it just so happens that you are on my top five “To Be Queried” list… should I? Shouldn’t I? Seems silly to–ohh fingers what are you doing?

My tweet back: Awesome! (or something) I have a query already drafted to you in my box, I should send it now! Haha! (or something)

Fingers still working frantically: Lovely Agent, you said you were a pushover today… So I thought, “Huh, opportune moment!” here is my query. It rawks (Okay, I didn’t say that… but close).

THE RINGS OF TIME – YA Fantasy 75,000 words

Fingers pushed send (actually, I think it was my mouse moving on it’s own accord) and then I giggled… followed by panic. Most of you know I use a pen name (because my real name is taken in the world of publishing…) so I have two emails. One for my family, one for the author world… Oops. I sent it via the real me and signed via the stealth me.

*headdesk*

Oh well, she will get this email from JOE NORMAL ME signed Eisley Jacobs and think… what the heck? Personality crisis? No explanation no nothing… Just signed it with my pen name.

*headdesk*

So… if I never heard from her again except to say, “I think you need to take your meds regularly…” I will be okay with that.

Her website said 8-10 weeks to hear back, so really, I wrote it off and thought lovely things about Lovely Agent and terrible things about me… Eisley (cant remember to switch her email) Jacobs.

So the SHOCKER was to get an email in my box Tuesday afternoon from Lovely Agent requesting a partial.

*jaw drops to the floor*

I guess she didn’t take her meds that day either So we are both unmedicated and it all worked peachy! Hahah!

Ahem, so… yes. I got a request for a partial. She said she was intrigued… I am happy. <– Understatement of the century.

Where’s my party hat?

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I start week five of my running program (More like week seven or eight, but only on week five because I think the program is for super humans, not regular Joe average people like Debbie and I). I am loosely following the couch to 5K program from Coolrunning.com and listening to the podcasts by Robert Ullrey while I run… well I was, until this last week. The later you get in the weeks, the harder the program is… obviously. You are training for a 5K!

So, I decided to cheat a little… Okay, maybe it’s not cheating per say… but I didn’t listen to the podcast for day two and three of week four. Instead I watched a movie on my iPhone. Handy little thing that is.

The first day (which was actually the second, are you following along?), I watched UP. So.the.wrong.movie.to.watch.while.you.run…period. Don’t try it at home folks. It was so slow and not a running time movie. Really, instead of making me forget about the time, I just stared at it. Hahaha.

So day two (which was actually the third day of the run week, and last day), I had downloaded, quite by accident (I plugged my phone and synced it to another computer in my house), another movie. A certain teenage vampire movie I received for my birthday last year from a great friend. I had forgotten I had it on that computer and so when it was synced back up to retrieve my ringtones, it transferred over.

Now before you go into, “that movie was so lame, blah blah blah…” I am not asking you to watch it. To each their own.

That doesn’t change the fact it was now on my iPhone and I ran to it last night.

Believe it or not… watching the darn thing worked like a charm! I messed up with my run times… a little… cuzz I was too involved in Bella and Edward (haha) but boy the time passed like a charm! I even wanted to keep going so that I could watch longer. Crazy movie.

So when I consider week five in two days, I will definitely bring the sparkley teenage vampire movie… because it worked! I will try anything at this point to trick my body into not realizing its running or training for a 5K.

Writing update: Today I should finish RUNAWAY CHOICES. Then I will let it rest for a few weeks and jump into editing.

In the meantime, I will probably write another couple UNSEEN CHRONICLES or really dive in and plot book 3 Mandorian Prophecies. Haven’t quite figured it completely out yet.

No new news on any other nonfiction fronts. I queried an agent on Thursday… or was that Wednesday? But they are moving their offices this week, so I don’t expect to hear anything back for some time. No worries, I am not in a hurry. It’s God’s timing, not mine.

Off to complete a novel… and ponder a 5K.

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I put on my serious face just for this occasion. *serious*

UNSEEN CHRONICLES: Some of you have noticed there is a new tab above labeled such. I am posting those as Serial Fiction now… so you can read them anytime.

I have written eight chronicles based on true stories to total close to 30,000 awesome words. Hehehe, hey, it’s my story… and yes I think it’s awesome!

I have six other story ideas which would probably bring my total up to novel length… But I think I am just going to continue posting them on here until I figure out what to do with them after they are all written. Because there really isn’t a genre for “Religious Paranormal True Stroies from an Unseen Speculative Perspective…” or maybe there is? Hummmm….

As always, if you have a story you want to share with me about the Unseen hands that helped you through a situation, let me know. It’s MUCH more fun to write for a person then a situation. Hard to explain but the three chronicles I have written recently have no personal attachment to myself and they don’t seem as exciting as the others. However, they are in the resting phase, so maybe when I read them again and edit them they will change enough that I can get super excited about them like the others. Maybe.

THE RINGS OF TIME: It’s still with Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest… I will know Thursday if I made the first cut. Their loss if I don’t. If I do… well, then I wait some more. This is a waiting game… till June. JUNE! Boy, what was I thinking? I am not the most patient of people, this is going to be a real growing time for me. (Book 1 of Mandorian Prophecies)

No querying for this yet, though the query is written and perfect (if I can be so bold Hahaha!). So if ABNA doesn’t pick it up, I can send it out to procure an agent.

THE SECRETS OF MANDOR: (Book 2) Is still being edited. I am about to give the editors email address out so he can be bugged by more then just me. Gosh, why does editing take so long? Oh yah, I know, it’s cuzz he is taking out all of my THATs.. and maybe a few JUSTs… okay and maybe one or two MOMENTS… but really. COME ON! Ahem… Yes, he is reading. *waves*

REDEMPTION: (Book 3) Title still in progress, but that’s what I am calling it… It will probably end up being a four name title like the other two… Who knows. But it’s being plotted. Well, sorta… not actively though. I write down notes here and there.

RUNAWAY CHOICES: Looking excellent… Around 52.5K words… Would be more like 53 but I had one of those nights that I hated everything I wrote and deleted it. Yes, I deleted it out of the WIP. I did save it, but its not part of this MS. I decided… errr rather my characters decided to go a different way… only AFTER I wrote the dang scene transition… I wish they would speak up MUCH earlier then they do. I mean really… 600+ words down the drain for what purpose? Still deciding.

NONFICTION STUFF: And yes, it’s stuff… plural. Hmm, what is the singular of stuff? Never mind, don’t answer that. Haha.

Umm so yah, I have some nonfiction ideas. I have actually thought about starting on a couple of them recently but haven’t stepped over that threshold yet… but I will Lord willing be stepping over soon. And maybe even sharing some exciting bits of news regarding this avenue. We will see… totally not in my hands right now.

KIDS FICTION: I also have this fantabulous idea for a boys series of books… But I have to flesh that one out with my boys And they aren’t willing participants yet… so really this shouldn’t be in the Writing Updates but more of the “Somewhere down the road when my boys are old enough to pay attention” category.

I wonder if that will ever happen…

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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 I submitted my novel, THE RINGS OF TIME, to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.

*please hold your applause till the end*

Yes, I do plan to win because it’s a good novel. At least I think so, and the thirty other beta readers that have read it.

Ahem, but how could I have shot myself in the foot. Well, let’s start with the negative side of this. My hands are now tied with a nice little red bow. I frankly like the bow and know it won’t be long until it will be part of a gift wrapping. Whether it be for Penguin books or another lucky publisher, I know my book will see the press. So while my hands are wrapped with (holding THE RINGS OF TIME) with a nice pretty bow… I can do nothing with the novel.

So… either I have inadvertently shot myself in the foot… or I did it on purpose and it’s a good thing. Which do you think?

Because the publishing industry is much like the Military, “Hurry up and wait…” I think it’s a good thing. My story isn’t pivotal to this moment in time. It’s timeless and in five month’s will be just as pertinent to the fantasy industry… In fact, it gives me more time to work on a synopsis, since I may need one eventually (what a pain in the patookis). It gives me more time to plot and actually began the third in the series… because two is being edited right now out of my hands. And it gives me more time to seek out that perfect agent… cuzz one is out there. A few I have my eyes on and they are such pleasant representatives of the field and they make me smile.

Though, in all actuality I think that THE RINGS OF TIME will win the contest and this won’t matter. No, not arrogant, just hopeful. I love my work… as I should. I know it will be published and that is not arrogance that is faith and believing in a dream.

If I win the contest, I think I will faint dead on the spot. Maybe even die… because there are up to 5,000 other entries from authors whose work probably is just as awesome as mine (note I didn’t say better… gotta keep it real.. HAHAHA!). But here is the dilemma, if I die… the third book won’t even see the light of day. So maybe I should get to work.

But I have goals… Gah! Finish Runaway Choices (My Urban ChickLit Fantasy), finish some more of the Unseen Chronicles (Which you can read as Serial Fiction at the top link under UNSEEN CHRONICLES oddly enough)… then and only then… am I released to write Mandorian Prophecies 3. Must have priorities.

So, what was the BANG we heard, if it wasn’t me shooting myself in the foot? Why it was the door of course… The door closed to the judging room for the contest and it has not begun.

Hurry up and wait… I am used to it.

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