Starting new untitled cowboy story!

The craziness is past. I shipped the paranormal proposal off to my agent. We’ll see what happens. Cross your fingers!! In the meantime, I can’t sit and wait. My “writer muscles” would atrophy. It’s tough when you take a break. You come back to a blank page and second guess yourself to death. So instead, I dive right into the the next thing. And the cowboy stories are so dang easy to slide into! 😀

Cleaned the pool this morning and pulled two dead tree frogs from the traps and fished a baby snake from the water. I didn’t want to check the type of snake it was, because if it was poisonous I’d have had to kill it. It was way too cute to demolish. Went for a swim afterward, then dressed in a dry suit and shorts so I can hop in whenever I get stuck in the story.

Bummer about Adam Lambert. But fantastic he won’t be married to that godawful “No Boundaries” single. Can’t wait to see what he does next. I wish Kris luck. I know he’ll do well too, but really, Idol was all about Adam this year. I bought an iPod yesterday. Guess whose performances I’ll be downloading?!

Well, I’m off to join friends for some timed writing sprints. Later!

I’m blogging today at Access Romance about my upcoming release LOCKDOWN. Join me, if you can!

You can catch me today, blogging at the After Midnight Fantasies blog. If you’ve never been there before, we have a slate of brilliant authors from Shiloh Walker, Anya Bast, Shayla Black, Patrice Michelle, Lorie O’Clare, Madeleine Oh, Lauren Dane, Ashleigh Raine, Sylvia Day, Mary Wine, Rosemary Laurey, Melani Blazer, Beth Williamson…whew!

Need I say more?

Admittedly, my posting on the other blog is very, very different. But you’ll get a real insight into how my strange mind works.
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Progress on Memphis paranormal—enhanced proposal complete!

Registration for Lora’s annual Reader Appreciation Weekend, running September 25-27, will end on May 31st! So if you’re interested or just curious, click on the icon and take a look at her webpage. This will be my second year in attendance!

RAW is a fun-filled weekend where readers and authors rub shoulders, talk about books, and raise a little hell.

In addition to the fabulous Lora Leigh, Jaci Burton, Maya Banks, Stephanie Tyler, C.L. Wilson, Sylvia Day, Shelley Bradley/Shayla Black, Shiloh Walker, Beth Williamson, Jasmine Haynes/J.B. Skully, Erin McCarthy, Lucy Monroe, Lorie O’Clare and many more will be there!

Today, I’ll be blogging at the Novelists, Inc. blog and telling a funny true story about false pride and comeuppance. Join me if you can!

Progress on Memphis Paranormal

My horoscope predicts one of those days when I just oughta turn off the computer and catch up on TIVO’d episodes of Primeval or Castle.

Decision making is tough today, and you are almost certainly torn between several alternate courses. It may be a good time to let go and let someone else call the shots for a bit.

I’m NEVER indecisive. So instead of letting that spook me, I choose to delete that prognostication and keep plowing through my WIP. Yesterday, I wrote 10 pages. Not the most I’ve ever done in a day, but considering I didn’t write that many last week, I’m very, very happy. I hope to do the same today and wrap up chapter six.

I’m still culling my spam folder for shiny golden nuggets. I had no less than three emails offering cheap colon cleanses. My favorite one was entitled “Max Colon” and promised to flush out excess pounds of poo from my colon. What do they know about me that I don’t?

But the best spam came from “Shawn C” entitled “A Seriously Insane Rich Guy”. The man can write a hook. He then goes on to tell me that he’s so crazy he’s going to share with me how he became seriously, insanely rich. I can’t tell you how tempted I was to click on the link, but then I got to thinking, “If I do, will he write me again?”

Last week was pretty much a bust, writing-wise. I couldn’t get my ass in gear. Might have had something to do with taking on babysitting duties for two days and letting a certain 4-year-old wangle her way into spending two nights with me. Having little ones underfoot really saps the energy.

This week, I have the same obstacles, but I’m getting into a routine and figuring out when I can write. So, I’m not giving myself a break. No excuses, I have to make progress on the Memphis paranormal, and I have a short novella to revise and get out the door.

The novella is a special project for my Arkansas RWA chapter. We challenged each other last year to write Arkansas-based stories and submit them to a publisher for consideration as a series. Some of the authors involved are published, some aren’t, so there was some extra work involved getting everyone’s ready to submit. Hopefully, we will all meet with success. My story needs some major work. Because I can’t write it as hot as I like, I feel hamstrung. Have to go back in and tinker some, and just plain get over being grumpy about it. 😆