It’s June 27!!! (Um, duh, you say.)
But it’s the 27 that’s important!
That’s right, twenty-seven. Two seven. We are now… 7 months away from publication of Take the Reins (Canterwood Crest!) YAAAHOOO!!! :o)
OMG. That means, gulp, next month it’ll be six. (Notice my awesome counting skills?) S-I-X. That means next month, changes will be happening! Woo!
Sorry the blog has been quiet for a few days! I’ve been working on a zillion queries, editing like a madwoman and deciding how I want my new Website to look. Yep, I’m getting a new look soon! I haven’t hired my designer yet, but I know exactly whom I want and can’t wait to work with her. I’ve been bookmarking sites I like and am super-excited to have a new look for my Website and blog.
In the mean time, you prob noticed the new little sidebar bit about the upcoming blog tour. Yep, Miss Megan was kind enough to offer me a shot at guest blogging in August. For that post, I’ll talk about the giveaways, prizes, surprises, events and more that will be coming up right here in the fall and spring. Yay! It’s all very exciting as we start the countdown clock for 6 months and counting on July 27. Look for a special vlog on that day. Also, if you’d like to be a stop on my blog tour for December, Jan or Feb, the details about all of that will be coming over the next month or so.
Plus, I’ve got *things* I’m waiting to show you all and cannot wait until I can!!! 🙂
Eeeee!! You’re looking at my first printed draft of the new Canterwood Crest book! (I know it’s blurry, but I didn’t want to, you know, give away any plot secrets just yet…) YAY!! Sure, it’s a mess and needs several edits and about 5,000 more words, but it’s a draft! Woo hoo! I had old light blue paper, so I printed it on that and had fun editing on something that wasn’t boring, old white paper. I love the sight of a new draft.
I celebrated by deciding to buy myself a new phone when I turn in the completed manuscript later in the summer. I’ve been desperate to have WiFi on my phone since I’m a serial e-mail checker, so I’m leaning toward a BlackBerry Pearl or the new iPhone releasing in July. Anyone have a BlackBerry Pearl? Like it? I’ve had my phone for a couple of years and it’s time for a change.
Give me an update on your project status! Who’s working on revisions? Or drafting? Share!
You guys had some great thoughts yesterday on the Facebook vs. MySpace debate. I do think that for now, anyway, MySpace is THE place to be to market to teens. But now that Facebook is open to everyone, we’ll see how that changes things later, perhaps.
So, is anyone writing through the holidays? Going to be scribbling in a notebook while sipping Aunt Lena’s eggnog? 🙂 I’ll be working because… I’m just over 10k words away from finishing my second book in the Canterwood Crest series! Yahoo! It’s all downhill from here, baby. I want to have it all bright and shiny when I present it to Agent A next month. The lack of good TV has kept me writing much later into the evening than usual.
Also, I rearranged the blog a little and put 2007’s read books at the very bottom of the page. The new titles for 2008 will fill their old position in the sidebar. I really wanted to create one link that would take you to all of those titles, but I haven’t figured out how to do so yet.
So, I’ll ask. What’s your favorite book that you read in 2007? It doesn’t have to have been pubbed in 2007, if you wish.
Note: from now on I’m going to keep cross-posting here and on LJ. There’s such a great LJ crowd (waves!) that I was leaving them out by only posting here.
Jessica Burkhart 