Formatting & Edits

I was reading a styling guide for one of my publishers and realised that for some reason I've been formatting my work for them wrongly. I always try and set my formatting correctly for each publisher. I think if I start my manuscript with the correct formatting then I won't forget to do it before submission—believe me I have done it before and had the manuscript sent back because of that reason. When I submit the next two stories -  Hidden Hearts 1: Harder & Harder To Breathe, and HH2: One Last Kiss Goodbye.

I also heard from the MMRomance Group that I'll be getting edits for DRitC story: Hollow's Trouble. sometime soon and it may take a month to get everything done before my story will be ready for release.

Why Is It...

Why is it when you are as busy as all get go, something comes along to throw you off track. I was totally keeping up with my writing schedule...Okay, maybe I was almost keeping up. I'm still working on The Connelly Chronicles 2: Beautiful Goodbyes... and Hidden Hearts 1: Harder & Harder To Breathe... I'll be playing the catch up game for the next week so that I can finish on time... I have no doubt I will finish. When I get closer to the end of the month I will tell you what I will be working on for July.

Ethan tripped over his own feet at school while playing sports and clocked his head on the footy posts. The school rang me and told me what had happened both the school and Ethan reassured me when he was okay. When he got home from school that afternoon and showered I realised he should have gone to the hospital. So Emily and I took him to the hospital who said he should have had stitches when it first happened. By the time he git there it was too swollen to stitch so they glued him back together. I thought I was clumsy--Ethan is way worse than I am.

Emily is moving home again and has been for the last couple of weeks. I swear to God it feels like she just moved out. But due to unforeseen circumstances and the hubs being fly in fly out to NZ. We need at least one person at home who can drive at night (I'm night blind and useless). Emily is about to have her exams for her first semester of uni in the next couple of weeks.

Today & My Upcoming Week

Today we started out with a new rule in our house.  HOUSEWORK SUNDAY. I don't think it went over too well with the kids. 14 and 25. We all had our assigned jobs. and then the kids went to Toowoomba to pick up yet another load of Em's stuff from UNI Village and move it home. My hubs is in New Zealand at the moment setting up our new company: Dragon Head Construction LTD. So we won't see him until the end of the month. he'll be home just as school holidays start in Australia.

I've been working on The Connelly Chronicles 2: Beautiful Goodbyes. I feel much better with the new way the story is settling in. I'm actually glad just to be writing again. I basically never wrote a thing between November 2014 (NaNoWriMo wsa the last thing I wrote) I started writing again on May 15th 2015 when I started the DRitC story: Hollow's Trouble, and finished the last 4 chapters in The Lines Of Marsden 3: You Make Me Die In Pieces. TLOM 3 is now in the hands of my editor at MLR--Christie N.

Monday: I have the flick-man coming he'll be checking for termites and spraying for all the creepy crawleys around (red back spiders are running rampant again). Tuesday: I have to go to the Dr's for my yearly blood test... then I have the Electrician coming out as we need some more power points in the house and the light switch in the toilet needs to be replaced as it keeps zapping people and only working when it wants to. Friday: I have to take Em to the Chiropractor to put her hips and back in again... the woes of having one leg shorter than the other.

N.J. Nielsen: My June Writing Agenda

I'm determined to get two stories finished this month so I will be writing approximately 4.7K each day... if I do more than all the better. Now that my life has calmed somewhat and I have time to write again I find myself playing catch up big time.

The two books I will be working on are:

1) The Connelly Chronicles 2: Beautiful Goodbyes-- this one follows on from the same point in which Family Connections ended. Once again we will be in Ray and Viv's point of view as they walk us through the next instalment of the family's life. All your favourites will be back adding their two cents to the mix. When done it's be on it's way to Pride Publishing.

2) Hidden Hearts 1: Harder & Harder To Breathe-- since I reworked and added 15K to the word count of One Last Kiss Goodbye, I've taken in what my fans have asked for and have decided to go back and write the prequel (Micah & Sammy) before I sub them both to Fireborn Publishing.

DONE!!!

You Make Me Die In Pieces.

Done and at the beta readers,

then onto Christie N at MLR

Made it to 94 K.

HAHBAT Winners...

My Winners Are...

Post Winner

Lee Todd

Sons of Evenmore 1: The Crimson Grimoire

Follower Winner

Shirley Ann

Experimentals 2: Running Into Zero Tolerance

Just letting you both know the books are on the way. I hope you enjoy the read as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Subbed & Onto...

Hollow's Trouble has been beta edited and sent to the Goodreads MMRomance group... I will heave back from them in a couple of weeks about any additional edits I may have to do.

I can tell you I was glad to get this story finally finished. I just hope I've done the prompt justice. But, I suppose in the end I can only give you my interpretation of the prompt I claimed.

Next year if I participate I will be better bloody prepared. I felt so rushed this time with everything going on in my life. I know that's no excuse, but when the shit hits the fan - it well and truly has blow-back.

Now I'm back onto one story I really do love writing for you all. The characters in The Lines of Marsden have wormed their way into my heart.

I've just finished the re read to catch up with where I was at and have now started back into the story. I am positive I'll get this one done by May 31st and to the lovely Christie N at MLR for edits.