Wooo hooo! My second book, Chasing Blue, is up on Amazon! No cover yet, but I’ll share it as soon as I can! How insane that book 2 of the Canterwood Crest series is up and ya’ll haven’t read the first one yet. 🙂
Btw, do you like the grapic on the side? ——> (BlogSpot only! Sorry LJ friends!) I made that in Fireworks and I think it represents the book well. Canterwood’s school colors are hunter green and gold.
Chasing Blue, the second book in the Canterwood Crest series, has a pub date on Simon & Schuster’s Website!
Chasing Blue hits stores on…March 24, 2009! 🙂 Woo hoo! The cover isn’t up yet, but you’ll find it here when it goes live. It’s quite awesome, I must say. *grins*
Now, you only have to wait 8 weeks from Take the Reins to Chasing Blue. Awesome.
All right! The holiday season is behind (well, almost behind) some of us and I’m looking forward to the New Year. Later in the week, I’ll post my resolutions for the New Year and I hope you’ll share some of yours. 🙂
Yesterday, just as my mom was taking the roast beast out of the oven, I typed the final words on Chasing Blue. It took about 7 weeks to finish and I’m thrilled to have the draft down. Sure, there are lots of revisions to be done, but that feeling of elation of having 200+ pages down on paper is AMAZING.
When I first started writing this book, I was a wreck. I’ve never written a sequel before, had no idea how much to reference the first book and worried I’d screw it up. But when I got started, things felt natural. I somehow knew how much to reference Take the Reins, my characters were more familiar than before and the luxury of not having to create an entirely new world (aside from a road trip the girls take) was nice.
My holiday break was fantastic! I spent lots of time reading (the Mob Princess series by Todd Strasser), writing (obviously) and watching movies (Wild Hogs and Order of the Phoenix).
Today, I’m printing and rereading CB and writing thank you notes for holiday gifts. (I’m waving at you, Aunt G, in case you read this!) 🙂
Thank you all so much for sharing my excitement about finding Take the Reins on Amazon yesterday. Yes, the pub date is off but at least it’s there in all of it’s paperback glory.
Also, I wanted to share that on Saturday, I visited a lovely upscale tackshop downtown. I struck up a conversation with the store owner she excitedly offered to host a book signing in her shop next fall. 🙂 I was thrilled about that and wrote her a thank you note as a follow up.
Chasing Blue, my NaNoNovel, sits at 21k and I hope to get at least 1500 words down today. Except, well, it’s sweeps month and every afternoon at 3 I must break for General Hospital. Lots of drama this month! 🙂
How’s everyone else doing with the NaNoNovel? Are you going to type during the Thanksgiving holiday or are you building in some extra words now?
PS- Anyone else dying to see Beowulf and The Golden Compass? Both look fantastic, especially GC. Hopefully, it will turn into a Lord of the Rings type of series.
PPS- Thanks to Em for you-know-what yesterday. 🙂
Jessica Burkhart 