Happy Fricken Easter To You All...

Just Another Day.

I honestly think writing blurbs and synopsis are harder than writing the actual story itself. Since I've been filling in these spreadsheets with all my story notes I realised that some of my earlier stuff doesn't have synopsis for them. So like the good-if somewhat crazy-person that I am. I decided to write them... Seriously, so not fun. But if I don't do them no one will.

The other hard bit is trying to locate all of my hand written notes and story ideas. If I was smart I would have kept them all in the same place, but noooo... I have them spread throughout the whole fricken house. I swear after Easter I will be more organised. I have to be just to get any work done.

What I'm Working On Today

1) Loving my new cover for Sons of Evenmore: Blood to Blood by the talented Deana J over at MLRPress.

2) Sending the full manuscript of The Connelly Chronicles: Family Connections to Faith over at Totally Bound Publications = one step further up in the submission lines... so keep all your crossables crossed for me in a hope that it gets picked up.

3) Working on my spreadsheets for all my stories... I'm at the end of the major ones... just all the ones I haven't yet published to go.

4) Figuring out what to eat because it's Good Friday - so that means no meat for me... I'm thinking I nice vegetable soup or a vegetarian pasta - the rest of the family is having curried prawns.

5) And just for the heck of it I'm doing my washing... Oh the fun never ends.

The Diamond Rose & Other Writing Notes.

Thoughts from inside the world of The Diamond Rose... I've been looking for cave entrances that look innocent or intriguing as they feature a lot in this story... some are inter-dimensional gateways while others are used for refuge or to hide something else.

The hardest part for me while writing is working out how long a story should be... Do readers like the longer  stories 70 - 100K? Or - Do you, the readers prefer the shorter Novella length 15 - 30K?

Also another question that plays on my mind so much is: Why do most publishers want American English? I know not all do, but it's frustrating as hell when you write in British/Australian English.

Since the whole first quarter of my year has been a chaotic mess; I'll have to go through and re-work  my WIP Schedule.

Super Secret Project!!!

Actually, I don't really have a secret - I'm one of those awful people who forget things are secret and blab...

I'm getting ready to sub another  of the Silver books just trying to figure out who to send it to.

I'm also playing catch up on my spreadsheet idea... where I have the spreadsheets for all my series and individual books... While doing galley proof for MLRPress last week I caught up on the Sons of Evenmore & then the two series which I was meant to actually publish before it... Pack Matters & Watson Falls... This way when I go back and write the beginning of the story line it will be so much easier to find information about events which are yet to take place... and who did what. I'm also thinking this would be handy to send to my editor so she has notes from all books in case she needs to double check things.

Today I have a meeting at 10:15 a.m. and then after that I'm going to be working on my Goodreads freebie for the Don't Read in the Closet 2014: Love's Landscape... I have to type up all my long hand and work out how to piece it all together so that it still makes sense. I'm hoping to still get I Couldn't Care Less What You Think done and in before the time is up, but have been thankful I have an extension if needed.

I also subbed The Connelly Chronicles: Family Connections to Totally Bound today. I debated long and hard about where to send it, but after talking to my daughter she wanted me to try Totally Bound seeing as we buy a lot of books from them... So I thought why not. Fingers crossed that it gets picked up.

It's Done...

Yesterday - I finished the galley proof on Sons of Evenmore: Blood to Blood....  and sent it back to MLRPress. I've also caught up on adding all my SOE notes into my series data spreadsheet - time consuming but oh so helpful... I'm doing them for all past and future works.

To day I re-subbed The Gaean Prophecies: Admetus Gaea to Wayward Ink Press... I should hear back in about 8 weeks... Still looking for homes for the others after I convert them back to .docx & re-format them.

I have so much to do and feel like I have no time left to do it in. I think I'll have to make up a time schedule to try and keep me on track.

Em's Turn

Just because I need some cheering up