Progress

Like clockwork, Katie gets me up at 4:45 am every morning. Has to go outside. And it's dark and cold, so it's not always a perky morning. She's getting to that stage where she's really failing, totally blind and stiff. I really don't know how much longer she can keep going like this, but I really hope I don't have to put her down. Not something I even want to think about.

But anyway, getting up so early has helped my writing, especially since I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month. Over 2500 words now. Not sure how many, since I'm mainly writing on my Alphasmart now, and it doesn't do word counts.

Anyway, that's the progress. Happy Thursday and stay warm! (Supposed to snow here today!)

Let the day begin

Sleeping, cleaning up rotted pumpkins on the deck, taking down Halloween decorations & putting up Thanksgiving turkeys, and thick, warm kitty socks. That about sums up my Sunday. Oh, and today is Katie's birthday. She's 14.

I managed to write 800 words today for National Novel Writing Month. That's a good start for me on a Sunday, on any Sunday, really. Been thinking about time management, how to go about this fast draft I'm working on. I'm scribbled up the entire month on my planner, broke down bits and pieces of time here and there. A road map for writing success.

How was your weekend?

Happy Halloween!

Happy haunting! Play hard, stay safe, eat lots of candy!

It's almost here!

November is National Novel Writing Month. Sunday begins NANOWRIMO, which is basically where you make a committment to write as much as you can during November. At the end of the month you're supposed to have a completed novel drafted out. I've signed up in the past, but always let it fall by the wayside. This year I'm taking it seriously. I want to get a historical drafted out by December 1st. Then I'll spend December editing. Less stress editing, at least in my opinion. And less stress in December is always good.

Anyone else doing nano this year?

Happy Humpday!

Oh, what can I say this morning? Raining cats and dogs outside. Not the type of morning I long for the commute. I'd much rather stay in bed or at the computer.

Anyway, I have three major projects I'm juggling at the moment.

1. Negotiating a deal with my publisher on a paranormal...fingers crossed.
2. Working up a draft which I'm going to do NANOWRIMO with. (National Novel Writing Month)
3. Rewriting a novella, working it into something long, something more substantial, then submitting that.

Only three, but a lot of work. Lots of rewriting. Gut-wrenching editing, marking up with the red pen.

Oh, and I have to buy candy for Halloween and a couple of Halloween cards to send out to relatives.

Booksigning Saturday

I was invited back to The Yellow Barn Winery to sign copies of Wicked Redemption and Stranger In His Bed this past Saturday. Here I am signing a copy of Stranger In His Bed to a reader. (Also a librarian which is always a plus!)
Here is a picture of my table. Aren't the wine glasses cute! The winery supplied those.

And here's a picture of me (left) and horror and children's book author Holly Gaskin. Holly was signing copies of her latest book, Tricked. The pumpkin on her table looks like the one on the cover of Tricked. If you look closely, you can see a skull in the pumpkin's mouth.

New books are here!

Ok, quick shot of Pumpkin. She's such a ham.

And I have my print copies of Stranger In His Bed. So hard to keep a kitten out of things, though.