Started reading the first book in #TheExpanse series last night, and it’s so hard to put it down to get work done!
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Think of this as a glimpse of how my brain feels after editing…
Think of this as a glimpse of how my brain feels after editing for hours. There’s still a lot more work to finish before this book is a book again. Right now it’s more of an arts and crafts project.
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The 2016 YA Scavenger Hunt is almost here!
Fun posts, giddy authors, puzzles to solve, giveaways, and tons of awesome books. What’s not to love about the YA Scavenger Hunt?! This season’s Hunt goes live on Tuesday, Oct 4th at 12 pm Pacific Time and comes down on Sunday, Oct 9th at noon Pacific time. For more information, check out the links below:
How to Hunt – Hunting Guide – Prize List – Enter Here
Y’all, my new obsession has been fed. It started with…
Y’all, my new obsession has been fed. It started with #TheExpanse series on SyFy, and now the books are going to be taking a priority spot on my #TBR list because I am absolutely enthralled with what I’ve seen of this world so far.
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And so it begins…
Next on the to-do list…
As soon as I can get my brain online, this is the next major project. Fixing everything that I broke while drafting my second Ryogan Chronicles book isn’t going to be easy, but it’ll be worth it in the end. Kate Brauning’s notes always are.
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Fiiiiinally.
It may have taken MONTHS longer than I wanted it to to both start and finish this book, but I am finally finished with the first draft of Ryogan Chronicles book 2! YAAAAAY!
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Flying over the Southwest….
It’s a book!
Look what came today! It’s a book! Island of Exiles is a real thing, and there’s only a few more months until it’ll be a book that you guys can read too!
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The Friday Five – August 19th
Welcome to the first ever Friday Five post!
To give credit where credit is 100% due, I have stolen this idea (with permission) from the lovely Katie Cotugno’s Five Good Things posts. The world can be a crazy place, so I think it’s excellent to recognize and publicly acknowledge the good things in it when we can. I am going to try to make these posts every week (I set an alert on my phone and everything), and this is the first one. Here are five things I enjoyed or am grateful for about this week:
- I don’t know how I’ve gotten so lucky with editors so far in my career, but I am so super grateful for my Entangled editor Kate Brauning who has been uber patient and supportive, helping me contain and shape my current projects and encouraging my new ones. She has continuously not keelhauled me for being overdue on this draft. I gotta say that I greatly appreciate that in an editor.
- Cait Greer has been especially fantastic this week, listening to me flail and whine about book problems only I can actually solve. A+ awesome friendship. Plus, we’re counting down the days until I fly to Salt Lake City, help Cait load up a trailer, and then road trip with her back to South Florida! I am very excited about that trip. There will be a LOT of pictures.
- It’s wonderful to me every time I see my Don’t Erase the Aces essay shared anywhere. The response to this post makes it more than worth the anxiety of writing it. Thank you to anyone who has promoted it, and even more thanks to the people who have told me how much the story resonated with them.
- I am closing in on 100k in my current project. The end is kind of in sight? If I grab a old-school seafarers telescope? And look in exactly the right direction? And good things are happening in the background on book one in this trilogy! I am trying to use that to spur me into finishing book two…
- Tomorrow (later today?) I am continuing my efforts to be social periodically and am meeting up with several local SCBWI friends for lunch and a workshop session! My regional chapter is fantastic, and I adore all of my local people, so I’m really happy I get to see them.