Owl

Penguins

It seemed like a penguin drawing kind of Saturday.

Hello

Well, Hello! It's been forever! Maybe 2015 will be the year I actually do something with this little blog!

Growing Up

Well, here is Kojak now. Still cute, and still a time stealer! And much much bigger.

DISTRACTIONS

Where am I? What's going on? Why am I failing at NaNoWrimo? Why haven't I finished the last round of rewrite's to my MG Fairytale?

He's called KOJAK:

Cute, right? Adorable. Fluffy. Huggable. But SO MUCH WORK! I'm running around behind this puppy ALL day long. He's teething and the best toy to chew on, according to Kojak, is MY arm! Just watch the video below and listen closely for the puppy chompers at work.

On another note, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Tick Tock goes the clock

So, I just looked back at my proudly announced finished manuscript post. Goodness! That was May. And now October is almost over. Seriously? Sigh. The good news is that I'm on the fourth draft. So far my beta readers like it. Yes, I have beta readers! Hi beta readers! I love saying that. Beta readers sounds so official. Anyway, I'm getting mighty antsy to send this manuscript out to agents. I have a couple agents in mind, and one specific lady who is going to get the book first. But, I'm still not sure when. Plus, I have some major holes in the book to patch up before I can really seriously think about diving into the Scary Submission Process. Eeeep!

I haven't given out any info about this top secret novel yet, cause I'm not sure how much to say. But I will say this: I love fairytales and this novel is inspired by a bunch of them. I will henceforth begin calling top secret novel "MiddleGrade Fairytale". The reason I'm getting impatient about sending this book out is due to the fairytale TV shows airing this fall. One of them starts tonight! I'm so nervous about these shows! I don't know if they are going to help or hurt me. Everyone tells me not to worry, but I can't help it. I had hoped to have the Scary Submission Process in the works by the time "Once Upon a Time" aired, but unfortunately the editing process is going slooooooow. Plus, the Corporate Place totally kicked my butt during the month of October. Too many late nights preparing for Big Meetings.

And lastly, NaNoWrimo begins November 1st. I'd like to participate again this year, and maybe even make it to 50,000 words by the end of November. But not at the expense of my MG fairytale. That's the danger of NaNoWrimo. The race to win the challenge can throw everything else to the wayside. Unless I can get MG Fairytale ready first. Hmmm. That's only 8 days. Silly me.

Brief update on Dragon*Con 2011

Look!  Look!  It's me as Katniss Everdeen.  Down with the Capitol!  It was so much fun being Katniss at Dragon*Con for a few days.  Some people did not know who I was, but those who did were extremely excited.  I've never had my picture taken that many times at Dragon*Con before.  And I have to admit, it was very satisfying to be called Katniss.

But I didn't go to Dragon*Con just for the extra attention.  I spent most of my time between the Writer's Track and the YA Lit track.  Both had fantastic panels full of valuable writing tips and advice.    The  most common pieces of advice being write and keep writing, and the importance of establishing my own marketing platform.   Wait, what?  Marketing platform, you ask?   Yeah, that's what I said.  I need followers, I need to network, I need to tweet and tumble and blog and. . . whew, I have a ton of work ahead of me.  That being said, this blog is going to undergo some changes and experiments as I try to bring out more of my personality onto these pages.  I might even vlog!  Maybe.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with The Raven and the Hawk yet.  Most of the panelists advised against publishing unedited work because it could work against me. 

Oh, yeah, I also met Tom Felton.  You guys, I shook hands with Draco Malfoy.  TWICE.  Seriously.

*sigh*

I miss Dragon*Con already.  I wonder if I can preregister for next year, yet?