Revision Means Rewrite, Babe

Happy New Year! Once again, almost a month has gone by since I wrote here. Egads. I stink at this. Okay, so where am I with the new book? Well, I’ve pretty much started over, and am almost done writing a new first chapter. I’ve also jotted a few new scenes and have...

Revision Rollercoaster

We had the big discussion of my new novel at my critique group December 6 and it went very well. The best thing about it was that I had written questions ahead of time and notes about what I thought needed work and everything was validated by what the group said. It’s...

New novel draft finished!

It’s just a draft that I’ve handed over to my writers group and when we meet in December they will give me tons of feedback and I’ll have tons of work to do with revisions but that’s OK. It’s a great feeling to have this part finished. Writers know that every step of...

Click Here sequel title and pub date

I’m happy to report that the title for the sequel is going to be my original title—Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages). Of course, there can always be a change at the last minute but everyone seems pretty confident that this is the title that will...

Back in the Groove

My oldest graduated from 8th grade on Friday and it’s been a whirlwind of events. He attended a parochial school since preschool so it was a big deal. Lots of fun but hard to believe he’ll be in high school come fall. We hosted a party for his whole class (about 45...