Saturday, October 29, 2011

Still sick.

Not me. My poor PC.  I've had lots of advice on things to do. Scott and I have tried some of them but so far nothing has worked.  I think I'll cart the poor thing over to a friend's house today.  They have some background with these electronical gizmos. Wish us luck.

In the meantime, I managed to create a business card. It looks pretty good if I do say so myself.    Wouldn't you love to have one?  :)

Later

Friday, October 28, 2011

Good news and bad news

The good news is: I got the official logo for Alabama Girls from my wonderful editor!  Now I'm busy trying to create a business card.  Yay!

The bad news: My laptop is in pieces on my desk.  I'm using hubby's computer while he works on my poor baby.  It doesn't know it has a hard drive.   :(  

And it's raining.

That is all.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

I'm baaaaaack!

And I have lots to blog about.

The weekend of October 15-16, I attended Southern Breeze's WIK conference down in Birmingham.  Met lots of nice folks, reconnected with others, and learned a lot.  A special thank you to Lisa Yee and her writing excercises.  Loved them!

Waiting on an afterward from a local archivist for Huntsville, 1892 Clara. Then, it's off to the press for my novel!  Not the final printing.  I'm getting ARCs!  Want one?  :P  And when some nice people provide some nice blurbs, then the book goes off for a final printing.  Hurray!  The end is in sight!

And so is the beginning.... I AM NOW UNDER CONTRACT FOR A SECOND ALABAMA GIRL NOVEL!!!!!!!!

Yep.  Birmingham, 1933 Alice is being written as I type. Well, not really, because I can't type a blog and a novel at the same time.  Anyway...  More details to follow.

Met the librarian of Lacey's Spring Elementary school.  She wants me to visit her kids and tell them all about Clara.  Imagine that!  I have a school visit before I have a book in hand!  I'll get to see them all in March if everything goes as planned.

In the meanwhile, life goes on and so do I.  Can't wait to share more of my journey with you.