Back in business

I finally got my computer and internet running again so now I'm back. It's been awhile since I updated my blog so let me see... Still moving in the next few weeks. No news about my full yet which is now 8 months old. I nudged a few months back but not sure if I should do it again.I've been working on the edits to the historical novel, finishing a stalled one, and working on one in progress. School is going great again. I got a little sidetracked for awhile. Well that's it for now. I plan on finishing the edits for the historical and posting the query letter up within the next few weeks, I hope.

Need to update you all

It's been some time since I've written a decent post. Not saying this one is going to be better but I thought I would update everyone. Still don't have a new computer and won't until income tax. Still waiting on those darn W2 papers. I waiting. The writing is on hold. I finished a semester at school and failed one class because I got lazy and then my computer died. Started another class, which I like. My stepdaughter was just adopted out with her grandma and things are getting better between her and my husband. Instead of moving to Tampa we are moving to St. Pete which is still close by. My last day at work was Monday and I'm so excited. These next few weeks are going to be such a whirlwind and I have all these emotions going through me. I'm excited, nervous, and scared. My school is helping me to find a job before I go down so that's neat. I can't wait to see a different place. My mother is not dealing with this the way I wish she would. Making snide remarks and saying that we'll fail down there and be right back here. Things like that. I know we can do this and we are going to make this work as a family. Next moth we will be down in Florida! On the writing front, nothing from any outstanding queries or the full out. Well I'm sure I'll have much more to say in the upcoming weeks.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone. Mine started off with my computer dying. Can't get another one yet and it's killing me. I was luck enough to back up all my stories but I'm afraid I lost a lot of things. I can't wait to get it to the shop. Well this is going to be short but wanted to let everyone know the plan on moving to Tampa is still on a roll. Next month we'll be there.

Looking for more beta readers

Hey everyone. I finally finished my book and I'm looking for more willing beta readers. I hope this story can work for young adult because there is some strong language used. I had to since it takes place during slavery times. If anyone is willing to take a look, feel free to email me.

Our plans for the new year and my new WIP

Ok... So we've finally came up with where we are moving. Tampa, Florida is the place that we will be calling home very soon. I'm so excited and I can't wait! It took us a lot of arguments, picking, unpicking, and finally picking for sure the right place. My husband is already looking for a band to join and I'm on the look out for legal assistant jobs. They seem to have a decent amount of both.

On the writing front, I've started yet another story. I couldn't help myself. My first try at writing upper middle grade. My main character is 13 and I already posted some of my work. I've gotten some pretty good feedback already and I can see how to improve what I have. Well, that's all I've got for now.

Teaser Tuesday

It's been quite some time since I have done one of these. I just started a new story today and I wanted to share some of it. It is still in rough draft form so grammar may be of and other things. I would love feedback since this is my first attempted at upper middle grade. Or is it middle grade. Not sure yet but working on it.

Julie looked around the lunchroom for her friends. It didn’t take long to spot the large group of people toward the back of the room. She piled on a salad, drizzled some olive oil on it, and grabbed a milk. Julie had caught the group mid conversation and she had to be caught up before putting in her two cents.



“I can’t believe you of all people haven’t heard!” Nina said. Julie couldn't help but to notice the new color added to Nina’s naturally blond hair. This weeks color was black. She made Julie think of a skunk but she wasn’t going to tell her that. Nina would never stop changing the highlights in her hair.
“What haven’t I heard? Tell me already!” Julie said, getting excited about god knew what.
“We are just got a new student and she is weird.” Nina went on. Julie but back the laugh at the way Nina had held out the word weird. “At least, I heard she was. I haven’t seen her. I also heard she is going to be in our class! I can’t wait to see what she looks like.” Nina said, spewing with excitement. Julie tried not to look bored but Nina saw her face.



“What? Don’t you want to check this girl out or at least find out the story on her?” Nina asked, confusion showing on her heart shaped face. Her eyes were lined with black eyeliner and it set off her already large eyes. Julie’s sometimes boyfriend, Kyle Wolf, known as Wolf, jumped in.
“I’ve seen her and she is pretty weird looking. I wouldn’t date her!” Wolf said, high-fiving a buddy next to him. Julie rolled her eyes and smacked her lips.
“Is girls all you think about? Isn’t that why we keep breaking up? Maybe if you get your eyes to yourself, we’d be hanging out still.” Julie said. That got a snicker out of the whole table. Wolf was not to be out done.
“We’ll be back together. We’ve only broke up, uh, let me see how many times…” Wolf looked up and pretended to be thinking. Nina rolled her eyes at the gesture.
“At least a thousand times and we always get back together. We’ve known each other for the whole thirteen years we’ve been alive.” Wolf finished. Julie said nothing to that but she turned back to Nina.
“Well, the faster we eat, the sooner we can get to homeroom and she this mysterious girl.” Julie grinned and dove into her salad.

It's been some time

I've been forgetting to update my blog from time to time. Life is always so hectic anymore since I started school again. That's going crazy already and I just started last month. What was I thinking going another 2 years? I had a great but boring Thanksgiving. I spent all day with my husband and the children. My mom kept them for 2 days. I haven't gotten any writing done in the last few weeks since I had to catch up on some school work. I did come up with several new story ideas for a middle grade novel. They are based on cat characters. I got a new kitten and he gave me some ideas. No news on my full still out. They said they have it and haven't read it yet. I'm still holding out hope but I know how things can go.