January 2007

There’s something about music that can your change your mood… My daughter and I will play videos on the computer and just get up and dance around like goobers. You smile, your heart rate picks up, and maybe you even laugh. I have to admit I stopped buying CDs after school

I’ve been having a Ghost Whisperer marathon and totally loving it. I had watched the show a couple of times on television, but always missed it on Friday nights. Well, I jumped back in and had to catch up with DVD rentals. Dan (David) Conrad who plays Jennifer Love Hewitt’

I’ve mentioned that I received my page proofs for Graffiti Girl, and this weekend I’ve been really getting back into the story. Finding small punctuation errors and similar words in the same sentence along the way. And I have had two weird anxiety-filled moments. Anxiety M

We know the publishing market is tough to follow. Between the time a novel is actually sold, and then published an entire year can go by. If you’re reading what’s hot on the bookshelves, by the time you write your book, query, and go on submission, your premise could have

Last week, my editor mentioned that my page proofs for GRAFFITI GIRL would be coming soon. And everyday I would check my doorstep until I finally found the package. Oh. my. gosh. It’s really amazing to see the layout for your first book. You see the fonts, the little embellishme

The ones you started and never finished. The characters that really took off but the story didn’t, or the story was interesting, but the characters fell flat. I have this Hero and Heroine I wrote about a couple of years ago. I was aiming for a category romance and they were diff

These are the print items I’ve been researching for the past month. And let me me tell you, it has not been easy. I want a standard price, good customer service, and of course, good product. I went through the whole, do I want to design these items myself or hire someone? Sticke

Not much to report other than I’m still beefing up my latest partial. Aiming to get it back to my agent the beginning of next week. And looky what I got in my inbox! The image of my full cover flat. Every time I look at it I sigh. haha! One more step closer… *Sigh*

I guess I’m still on the blogging-about-agents kick because I was reading the latest entry on my agent’s blog about communicating with your agent, and aha! Blog topic. When you first sign with an agent, it’s really easy to email your agent a lot. I know I did, but Kr

I know I’ve been pretty blog-lite lately. No, particularly heavy posts. No, profound deep thoughts. heh. Well, I’ve been revising a new partial to send to my editor soon. I had wrote 3 chapters and a synopsis, which I am so awful at–syns really are tough for me. Seei