I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 05.17.2006
Blog book giveaway:
My Thursday book giveaway is THE PREACHER’S DAUGHER by Lyn Cote
My Monday book giveaway is BLIND DATES CAN BE MURDER by Mindy Starns Clark.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
I’m done. At the beginning of the year, I made a goal of three books this year. That’s four months per book.
I started this manuscript January 15th. I finished in the wee hours of May 17th, so it took me about four months, a day and a few hours.
Yay me. I’m going to bed now.
Yes, this is the espresso maker on the right, and a professional coffee grinder on the left. By the espresso maker, I mean the one I promised to my long-suffering husband if I got a book contract, as a reward for letting me quit my biotech job and write full-time.
Blog book giveaway:
My Thursday book giveaway is THE PREACHER’S DAUGHER by Lyn Cote
My Monday book giveaway is BLIND DATES CAN BE MURDER by Mindy Starns Clark.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.
I’m done. At the beginning of the year, I made a goal of three books this year. That’s four months per book.
I started this manuscript January 15th. I finished in the wee hours of May 17th, so it took me about four months, a day and a few hours.
Yay me. I’m going to bed now.
Yes, this is the espresso maker on the right, and a professional coffee grinder on the left. By the espresso maker, I mean the one I promised to my long-suffering husband if I got a book contract, as a reward for letting me quit my biotech job and write full-time.
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May God give you tons and tons of wonderful words and stories to share with us all.
Wow... that's a cool espresso maker!
Great going, Camy. More power to you for trusting God.
I should probably prayerfully set some goals for myself. I definitely need to. But something always comes up that takes me totally of course--like a 15-page Word questionnaire that I *know* I saved but don't know where it went. Now I have to do it all over again. And these weren't one or two word answers. After 10 days of searching high and low in the computer, I think it's time to give up and do it again. Sigh! That's what brought on all the severe pain in my hand in the first place.
Wow. I take it your husband likes espresso coffee? That's an awesome machine that you've got there. I can't even make simple coffee let alone use something like that.
You sound like you have a busy, happy, blessed life too! tfs!
Congrats on your book!
Woo-hoo!!! Welcome to the land of the deadlings. (A word first coined by the infamous Brandilyn Collins.)
Love ya, lady!! Enjoy that espresso!!
: )
donna
Now, is that finishing, as in ready to go in the mail finishing?? I wish I was at that point!!!
But I have been very busy this week with my sister, and agents and editors be damned, I'll take this time over getting my manuscript done any day!!
I LOVE having a sister :)
Each day I think I'm done and I found more to do. How do you know you're DONE?
And waaaaaaayyyyyyyy cool espresso machine.
p.s. what did you get yourself?