April 2007

I’ve been babbling a lot about not being able to concentrate lately, preparing for the release of Graffiti Girl. Well, here’s another reason! I’m very excited to announce my second young adult novel sale to Jennifer Heddle at MTV Books. Children’s: Young Adult

I made a funny realization this weekend… I love the old classic Romantic story line. Girl (or guy) enters new surroundings, looking for new adventure, possibly a new life. She completely changes and works hard to either change or exceed at new lifestyle. Meets new love in new li

I’m babbling about Back To The Future over at Teen Fiction Cafe. Stop by if you can!

–The difficulty of concentratingOn writing, on reading, on common tasks. To many things cluttering your brain. –The constant “googling” of bookEven when hardly that many people have read it because it hasn’t hit bookstores yet! It’s a very annoying

It seems there are times in your life where everything seems to collide at once. Needless to say, the pace of my life is going to be fast for the next twenty-something days until the release of Graffiti Girl and then the book signing. Life obligations don’t stop just because you

Pacing. It’s really a reader preference when it comes to enjoying the pace of a book. I like action rather than introspect. Give me an action scene rather than pages of characters remembering the past or thinking for 2+ pages, and I’m happy. There are times when I’m

Thanks to everyone for sharing my excitement with me!! I’m still adjusting to looking at it. Graffiti Girl. My book. To finally see–feel in my hands–the final packaging of my first book is like…wow. It’s like… Touching a star…Meeting a good fr

My book Graffiti Girl It’s real! Yippee!!! More tomorrow…

I called each of the intended 4 local newspapers for press packet mailing information. Only two were willing to accept a press packet, and the other two newspapers in my hometown only wanted the info for the calendar events. haha. Local author book signings are not big news. But to be

I was reading Kristin Nelson’s blog post this morning at RTB and thought she made a great point. “…I end up thinking that the story idea is just not ‘big enough’ for single title. And sometimes when we do ask for pages, the story as it is written just isn