30 October 2019

#WIPWednesday



I am thrilled to announce I've signed an agreement with Lasting Impact Press, an imprint of Connection Victory Publishing Company, for the publication of tumbling: poetic thoughts from an anxious mind in paperback and e-book formats!

I finished. I saw the project through to the final draft. And it will be published before the end of the year!

Can you believe it!?!

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for pre-order information, the cover reveal, and more!

23 October 2019

#WIPWednesday

I'm excited about how much progress I made this week on tumbling: poetic thoughts from an anxious mind. I'm currently going through beta reader notes on my 3rd draft and working on the final edits. It is so close to being done!

In other exciting news, Twiniversity ran my essay this week. This was one of the pieces I completed over the summer which was being held.

16 October 2019

#WIPWednesday

My kids had a 5-day weekend, aka: Fall Break, from Friday through Tuesday. We took the opportunity to make the rounds visiting several family members and friends over the course of a more than 900-mile loop. It went very well until an incident in the last couple hours which prompted my latest essay. I was thrilled to have it accepted on  P.S. I Love You and selected for curation in two Medium topics.

Before we left on our road trip, I finished my 1st draft of tumbling: poetic thoughts from an anxious mind! I sent it off to my wonderful beta readers and am looking forward to getting to work on the 2nd draft after I receive their feedback.

09 October 2019

#WIPWednesday

I've been hoping that a couple of things I finished and submitted over the summer would be published soon to help fill in this gap while I am working on my bigger project and have had nothing new to share for weeks on end. The timing of those projects is out of my control, but I did follow up on them this week.

The anthology in which I will have a short story published does not yet have a release date, though the goal is still this month.

The essay I wrote on a deadline had the deadline pushed and then suspended. I'd already completed the essay and submitted it over the summer but it's been in holding since then.

The essay I submitted in May for an anthology is still pending, no update on the progress of that project.

So, while I have new works out there, I still had nothing new to share. We are halfway through the quarter and I've been getting nervous that I'll have nothing to put in my next newsletter.

So, I decide to publish a new poem, fitting of the season, just to have something to new to share this week.

I hope these projects fall into place over the next several weeks but, either way, I need to just keep working on my own project and not get too distracted worrying that I haven't written a new essay or queried for syndications.

If all goes well, this finished project will be accomplishment enough to share in my next newsletter.

02 October 2019

#WIPWednesday

I was thrilled to see Sea Glass Hearts on the shelf during my visit to our local library this week! I mean, I wasn't surprised – since I donated the copy. But I was excited to see it there on the shelf and ready to be checked out.

Once again, this week, I did not spend any of my writing time on querying old pieces for syndication nor on writing any new essays – to most, it probably seems like I haven't been doing much.

While I have had less time than I'd like to spend on writing lately because of some other things going on, I have been using what time I do have to work on my latest project, tumbling: poetic thoughts from an anxious mind. And it is coming along quite nicely!