Can you believe it? Baxter's Second Adventure..

Baxter's second adventure, Rainbow Tracks, is rolling out to my writing group!  I'll send it to my editor this week.  

Writing is a funny thing.  Sometimes all of the words spew out faster than you can get them onto the page. Sometimes, the basics are there, but they need polishing.  Sometimes, you have to mine, dig, pick, and scrape for every single word.  Every time, I'm surprised how all the words settle into place and form a pleasant little story.

Book number 3 is rough, but well-formed and on its way. I know where this book is going already; all of the ingredients are there. I just need to put them together.

Merry Christmouse!

Here is the link to my first book of Baxter's Adventures.

http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Christmouse-Baxters-Adventures-1/dp/1505216303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417202848&sr=8-1&keywords=merry+Christmouse

Also available for Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Christmouse-Baxters-Adventures-Book-ebook/dp/B00QELKLA8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417447290&sr=8-2&keywords=Merry+christmouse

Vicki, my illustrator, did such a great job capturing Baxter's personality. She and I are already talking about the second book!

It's finally here - PUBLICATION!!!!!

My children's book about Baxter and the chaos one winter evening in Merry Christmouse will finally be published by Linkville Press. I am very thankful to my publisher, Amanda Marie; my editor, Kathy; and my illustrator, Vicki.

It's so exciting to see your book visibly come into it's own as a product rather than only a concept. I can't wait to see more - and that means I need to write more!

Publication will be this week. Stay tuned for more details!

So many articles and websites....so little time.

Is it terrible that I sometimes want to use my blog posts just to curate great links?   I've gone far beyond using any browsers ability to organize all of the pages I must revisit.   I think I've even worn out poor Diigo, an app that allows you to organize links an bookmarks.

http://thewritersarchive.tumblr.com/post/51965789306

This blogger actually put up a page of resources.  I'm just linking over to that site.... lazy. Or desperate?


ENJOY

The whirlwind of school

School has started again, and again I revamp my ideas about writing time and getting stuff done. I often plan to do extraordinary things during summer, but then life gets in the way. I didn't get the writing done that I hoped for, despite my Sunday mornings with my writing buddy.

So now, we start the school year and renew and revamp goals!

Merry Christmouse is with the illustrator, and she's doing an amazing job. It's so very cute!!!

Rainbow Tracks (working title) needs to be finished and sent to my writing group, and then my editor.

One of my dear friends from grad school and writing group members is a finalist in a screenplay competition. Another writer has done just as well with two of his scripts, and the third writer actually WORKS in Los Angeles.

So, I have my articles in The Belly Dance Chronicles and my up-coming children's books,  but I feel the need to get my screenplay out there into competitions now.

I'm going to work about one Saturday a month at our school for Saturday school, and maybe that should be a time I could work in weekly.

That's the plan....maybe you should check in with me and keep me accountable on my Saturday mornings.

And a VERY timely post just for me....and the rest of those readers/writers out there

I'm stuck. Even though I'm in the midst of writing two books - everything is plotted!  I just need to get the writing done.


Keep the writing wheels greased:

http://5writers.com/2014/07/26/waiting-for-inspiration/

Linking a GREAT post from Kristen Lamb

I follow Kristen Lamb on Facebook, and today I'm giving you a link to her latest blog posts.  This has so much good stuff in it!  Enjoy.


http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/what-brazilian-jui-jitsu-can-teach-us-about-going-pro-as-authors/