I sent the manuscript for Restored Hope to the publisher last week and I am waiting for the editorial review to come back. In the meantime I am waiting - patiently. Well, not so patiently. Let's just say I'm waiting. They said it will take 2-4 weeks. But I know it won't take that long, then there is the long wait AND I mean LONG wait for the layout - that takes about a month and then the cover design and approval and then the print design. If I'm lucky I will actually have a copy of Restored Hope in my hand by July 1.
But in the meantime Disrupted Lives is running through my head....now you might be wondering..."How in the world does she finish one book and immediately have another one running through her head?" That's easy I guess, Disrupted Lives was supposed to be written first - it's just that Restored Hope jumped in front.
I suppose as an author I give voice to other people - I know they are all fiction and the characters aren't real, but when I'm writing their stories, they are real and I have no idea where the story is going...it just takes off. Sort of like, I'm waiting for the characters to tell me where they want to go. In all of my other books I knew exactly when, how and where they were going to end. Not true for Restored Hope. "They" told me how to end it.. and it is good!
Oh, I guess that's not fair is it? Now you all have to wait!
Sorry!
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April 28, 2010
April 26, 2010
Time
I never have enough time in a day to do everything I need to do = forget about the things I want to do. Between getting up before the sun to go to work and then coming home and getting through 75 emails and getting dinner on the table and spending any time at all with my daughter the day is over. Now, mind you that means my daughter wants to spend time with me - oh yeah did I mention she moved back into my house?
Then of course there's my boyfriend - he might want to spend some time with me and we might want to do something in there - and I do need to get some sleep.
Oh yeah, a book - I'm writing a book - you know the most inconvenient part of the day is spent working - wish one of these books would take off so I wouldn't have to spend so much time at work! Oh well, I guess that is the way it is supposed to be and if I wasn't so darn busy I would be complaining about being bored!
Seriously, have you ever thought about how much time people spend complaining? Sit back every once in a while and just listen to the conversations going on around you.
Listen carefully - that is my favorite thing to do = I'm not really complaining about anything in my life right now = I am so happy nothing is getting me down. The whole point of this was to get you to pay attention and listen to what's going on and stop and take a deep breath and appreciate everything you DO have and stop complaining about what you DON'T have because believe me - for everything you don't have there are a whole lot of people with a whole lot less!
Then of course there's my boyfriend - he might want to spend some time with me and we might want to do something in there - and I do need to get some sleep.
Oh yeah, a book - I'm writing a book - you know the most inconvenient part of the day is spent working - wish one of these books would take off so I wouldn't have to spend so much time at work! Oh well, I guess that is the way it is supposed to be and if I wasn't so darn busy I would be complaining about being bored!
Seriously, have you ever thought about how much time people spend complaining? Sit back every once in a while and just listen to the conversations going on around you.
Listen carefully - that is my favorite thing to do = I'm not really complaining about anything in my life right now = I am so happy nothing is getting me down. The whole point of this was to get you to pay attention and listen to what's going on and stop and take a deep breath and appreciate everything you DO have and stop complaining about what you DON'T have because believe me - for everything you don't have there are a whole lot of people with a whole lot less!
April 9, 2010
Life and Death
Life is a precious commodity and it never hits home quite as hard as when someone younger than us dies. This week my daughter's boyfriends older brother was killed in an car accident. He was twenty years old.
I was awakened by a whisper, "Mom, **** died last night."
I immediately sat up and asked what happened and she told me it was a car accident and her boyfriend was crying and she didn't know what to do. I told her to take him to his mother's house. It was 5:30 in the morning. My daughter is 18, her boyfriend is 19 (AND yes, they both live with me).
Since then my daughter has been shuttling back and forth, but has been dazed and keeps saying, "I can't believe I will never hear his voice again, or I will never see his face again." This is the first person she has really known, of her age that has died.
The most heart breaking has to be for his mother. Children are not supposed to go before their parents and she is having a very difficult time. This has not been lost on my daughter either. She feels for her as well as people come over and the grieving process proceeds. The date for the funeral has not been set yet and all I can do is stand in the background and listen as my youngest child grows up and handles an adult situation.
And in the back of my mind I pray please protect my three children every time they get into a car.
I was awakened by a whisper, "Mom, **** died last night."
I immediately sat up and asked what happened and she told me it was a car accident and her boyfriend was crying and she didn't know what to do. I told her to take him to his mother's house. It was 5:30 in the morning. My daughter is 18, her boyfriend is 19 (AND yes, they both live with me).
Since then my daughter has been shuttling back and forth, but has been dazed and keeps saying, "I can't believe I will never hear his voice again, or I will never see his face again." This is the first person she has really known, of her age that has died.
The most heart breaking has to be for his mother. Children are not supposed to go before their parents and she is having a very difficult time. This has not been lost on my daughter either. She feels for her as well as people come over and the grieving process proceeds. The date for the funeral has not been set yet and all I can do is stand in the background and listen as my youngest child grows up and handles an adult situation.
And in the back of my mind I pray please protect my three children every time they get into a car.
April 7, 2010
Writing and Reading
I always love to start a new book -- don't you?
Now as I write that I realize that could mean picking up a book and reading it, or picking up a brand new clean piece of paper (if you're old fashioned) or turning on the computer and looking at a blank screen, with the blipping cursor, and starting a brand new book. Either way, I love them both --- but I hate them both at the same time.Wow, talk about an oxymoron. So, what brought that subject up anyway? Well, I'm so glad that you asked. I am so engrossed in finishing Restored Hope (that's my latest novel, in case you were wondering) and it just seems to keep taking more and more twists and turns that will keep all the readers on the edge of their seats AND I just picked up a copy of Tailspin by Catherine Coulter. So I find myself with not enough hours in the day to do everything that I love. Finishing my book and starting a book, and writing these blogs and corresponding with friends. Isn't life funny that way? We never seem to have enough time to do the things we enjoy because they all seem to be upon us at the exact same moment in time, and then we have those times when we feel abandoned and alone. But you know what I say whenever I feel abandoned and alone? Pick up a good book!So.....Read....Write....Review.....Until we meet again......BY
Now as I write that I realize that could mean picking up a book and reading it, or picking up a brand new clean piece of paper (if you're old fashioned) or turning on the computer and looking at a blank screen, with the blipping cursor, and starting a brand new book. Either way, I love them both --- but I hate them both at the same time.Wow, talk about an oxymoron. So, what brought that subject up anyway? Well, I'm so glad that you asked. I am so engrossed in finishing Restored Hope (that's my latest novel, in case you were wondering) and it just seems to keep taking more and more twists and turns that will keep all the readers on the edge of their seats AND I just picked up a copy of Tailspin by Catherine Coulter. So I find myself with not enough hours in the day to do everything that I love. Finishing my book and starting a book, and writing these blogs and corresponding with friends. Isn't life funny that way? We never seem to have enough time to do the things we enjoy because they all seem to be upon us at the exact same moment in time, and then we have those times when we feel abandoned and alone. But you know what I say whenever I feel abandoned and alone? Pick up a good book!So.....Read....Write....Review.....Until we meet again......BY
April 2, 2010
Good Friday
Happy Good Friday to all of you.....even though every Friday is a good Friday to me...after all I have a full time (paid) job Monday through Friday and I try to get some writing in every day -- even though that has been very hard lately with trying to get this site up and running. And then, of course, my favorite day of all is Saturday - but not because I sleep in, or get to be lazy, but because I get to do what makes me the happiest..... I get to go join my Saturday morning family and prepare sandwiches and snacks to take to the streets and allies of Downtown Los Angeles and feed the homeless. So Friday is sort of my appetizer to the main meal.
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