Back to School!

I find myself completely amazed that today is the first day of school. Where oh where did the summer go? We went to the pool. we went to the beach for three days, we did little day trips and sleepovers, but it doesn't feel like a whole summer passed already. Weird. I wonder if this means that I going to be saying - Why is it Christmas already?!?! anytime soon!

So I have to laugh at myself because I haven't been submitting much material lately and now I have three submissions out. LOL! Feels good though! But the waiting...OY!

Since this is a catch up post, I must also make mention of the fact that the casual hidden object game, Royal Trouble, that I talked about in a previous post is now essentially DONE! Woo! I'm waiting to find out a release date for those who have expressed interest. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

Last but not least, I hope to have a more productive year in the rest of 2010 than the first part of it. I'm busy writing my little heart out after several personal setbacks. Here's to the remainder of 2010 ROCKING THE CASBAH!!!!

Misty

Funny thing happened on the way to the store today...

Okay, so today we had an awesome, fantastic book signing with 34 total authors at the Lebanon Valley Mall. I LURVE Heather who is the coordinator because she rocks and Borders is lucky to have her! So are we! Vicky B, Smith, Megan and Natalie and I were all next to each other naturally :) We talked, we laughed, everyone else took pictures because I forgot the camera my husband had packed for me in the car. Totally typical.

A rumor hit my little ears earlier this week that there were going to be Storm Troopers at the event. I was excited but nothing compared to my husband who immediately asked if they were part of the 501st. I'm with you, I said "HUH?!!?!" Then good nerd that my lovely husband is he pulled up a site about them and how they are the elite of the dress up crowd for Storm Troopers. Color me impressed. So of course today when the Storm Troopers showed up I couldn't resist asking if they were part of the 501st and the answer was a thumbs up! My husband was so jealous. LOL! Got my pic taken with them multiple times, once on my knees under arrest and another in handcuffs :) Apparently I was wanted on at least three planets! Waiting to share those since I am relying on Natalie to get them to me off her camera (remember mine was in the car - useless!). Will post as soon as I can.

Not so funny, but lovely and so incredibly brave, I met a man named Dashaun "Jiwe" Morris. Lord above I bought his book War of the Bloods in My Veins. I'm not going to get into too much history because this isn't the place, but I have experience from my growing up years that is going to make this doubly hard to read, but it has already captured me and I'm only 8 pages in. He writes slang so fluidly and so brutally honest. I know I'm going to cry but meeting him was an honor and a privilege.

And to top it all off on a fun and funny note, which is what we're all about here at Big Writer! I met Byron Morrison, who is a lovely lovely man and I swear (poor thing) my male counterpart. We were very naughty together and had a blast. Insta friend! You have to check out his stuff :) Very dark and yet he had me rolling on the floor (almost, though I did rub his head). I will link when I find one.

Also, one more and then....20% of the proceeds went to fund the library in the area and we made more than last year. Can't beat that with a stick! All in all a good day and reminds me why I became an author in the first place! I love talking to people about writing and encouraging them to read. And I have at least 8 new readers with my 11 books I sold today. WOOT!

Misty

Progress is gooooooood

for the liver.

Seriously though, I managed to cut an entire chapter of the manuscript today and start somewhere completely new. I wrote two new pages which I haven't done in a while now with everything we've had going on. I won't say I'm back in the groove since that would be a lie for what my groove used to be. And yet I feel hopeful because I might be nearing the groove :) That's always a good thing.

Grooveless=bad
Nearly groovy=good

So good it is :)

Have a good night.

Misty

Writing, Playing and Figuring Stuff out

So HELLO! How's everyone doing? Summer is finally upon us and I am feeling good. I have a book that needs to be seriously edited/rewritten/revised that hopefully will come out from Draumr Publishing in the next six or seven months called Strings Attached. It's part of a series that Rida Allen started with The Crooner. Good stuff that! My hero is a guitar player which is a career I've never written before. And I think my heroine has just become an electrician instead of a magazine writer. LOL!

I'm also working on writing the text/story for an online game. If you've never played a hidden object game I suggest you go at least play a free trial over at bigfishgames.com or Spin Top Games. Both great places with a lot of fantastic games. So back to my part. Orchid Games, who has put out several beautiful Solitaire games asked me to help them write a hidden object game that has really turned into an adventure game. The experience has been very cool! I never have had to depend on only dialogue to convey the story and let me tell you it is HARD to make a romance happen when you primarily have them talking to each other through letters and tubes! I can't wait for it to come out! We're almost done :)

I also have a submission out with a newer digital publisher that I am waiting for word on, though I don't expect to hear anything until August on that.

And finally, I am targeting Superromance with my next new project. This line at Harlequin has been my favorite for years! I flirted with submitting to them before and have received several very positive rejections from them over the years but I've never submitted consistently to them. I hope to do so with my current project. I love the stories they put out and would be proud to call myself one of their authors! There I said it, and now that it is in black and white I feel like I've solidified it for myself.

Phew! That was a long post after a long absence. :) If you've read this blog at all, you'll know that I hate to say I'm going to do this more often because I always end up disappointing myself. But I will say I'm going to try now that I have some really positive stuff going on and hoping to make more positives happen.

Take care,
Misty

New Book Out!

No, not one of mine, though I hope to have something new soon :) But a friend of mine, Victoria Allen, has a new release today called Aces and Eights and I highly encourage you to run on over to Captiva Press and get one of your very own. It's a short, erotic romance tale and looks fascinating! So speed mouse, don't click through websites and get yourself a slice of Victoria Allen!

Since I have never mastered the whole embedding links thing so it has a cute little HERE that you can click, here's the whole link:
http://placidapublishing.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18_20&products_id=8

Until later :)
Misty

Snow, snow and more SNOW!

Well, I haven't been here though I have no excuse. Moving on...

I am totally addicted to hidden object games. I just had to put that out there. Something about finding all the hidden things and especially when they are mixed with adventure games. LOVE! And now I get to help write one!!!! Woot! It will hopefully be coming out through Orchid Games. I highly recommend going over to orchidgames.com and picking up one of their solitaire games. THEY ROCK! But be prepared to get sucked in and do nothing else. I'm just warning you...

On the writing front, there isn't much right now other than I am writing every day, even when I don't really want to. Which is good for me. Grows character!

Ta for now! Off to more writing where I wrangle my muse and hog tie him while I type out my five pages.

Misty

Back from the Be-ach!

Okay, so I went to the beach in Delaware because one of my awesome friends bought a beach house and let us take a test run. I am in love and can't wait to go back. I do not have a cool time line break down of what I was doing there like Natalie. Nor do I have a rambling one like Vicki Smith (or Wiki Smit if you have listened to our impromptu ridiculousness on Megan's Twitter or Facebook about microwaves). I do not have a thorough one like Vicky Burkholder either. But that doesn't mean I didn't have a blast :)

It was wonderful and so very relaxing. Lots of writing done. Since I am trying something new I decided in my normal all or nothing fashion to try it completely new and took out my tablet and chisel. Just kidding, but I am writing this book long hand which on the one hand is like OMG it's going to take FOREVER and I can type much faster, and on the other hand it is very freeing and has forced me to think a little bit more before moving on to the next word or phrase. If I had a third hand, I would say it was fun (and I'd be a favorite at stag parties!).

I wrote about 55 hand written pages in a cool composition notebook like the ones I used to use in elementary school for english stuff - generously donated by Wiki Smit since it was the one fricking tool I did not bring. I had my laptop and AlphaSmart and yet still wrote it out long hand. But it's working. And honestly that's all that matters to me :)

I will say that it snowed between 7 and 10 inches while we were there. Seriously! Snowing on the beach. It was awesome. The whole thing was.

Misty