Ten Word Tuesday

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Richard Bach

A Postponment and Some Mondayness

Due to some uncontrollable events, we are going to postpone our Author Spotlight Week with the awesome Shaun David Hutchinson while he recuperates from some unexpected events. But, I urge any and all of you to head out and get his book, The Deathday Letter without delay! I loved this book, read it in a day, laughed, cried, and laughed some more. Serious excellence :D You can find links to buy it in my Must Read Books tab above. Please stay tuned for our spotlight week with Shaun. We will be discussing his book and even giving away a signed copy!

So, for this week we will stick to our regularly scheduled program :)

Hope all is well with everyone and hope you are all busily writing away! I'm working on it, to varying degrees of success LOL But, I figure as long as I'm getting SOMETHING down, I can give myself a pat or two on the back :)

Real life stuff getting in the way right now:

No air conditioning - hard to type when your fingers are dripping sweat. No joke.
Middle finger on left hand non-functioning - not sure what is going on with it, though I have discovered I'm pretty good at typing even though I can barely move my fingers on my left hand. Gotta love a silver lining ;-)
Kids are hot and bored and hot - but, the youngest starts summer school this week (she has a speech delay so this is just to get her up to speed before she dives into kindergarten, and she's super excited!) and we got our little pool up which my son now lives in; so this week may go better.

Goal for this week - get some writing done no matter what awesome excuses I may have! I will type one handed sitting on a block of ice if I have to!! :)

So, how is life and writing going for everyone else? I hope you are being more productive than I am ;D

Shout Out for Christine Fonseca

Just wanted to spread some cover love for my awesome friend and agent-sista, Christine, who got her cover today!!!! Her book will be coming out on Oct 15th and should be available for pre-order soon. Check back in my Must Read tab (above) for links to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (they'll work as soon as the book is listed). But for now, here is a peek at her beautiful cover. Congrats Christine!!!!

Ten Word Tuesday

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. 

~William Wordsworth

Unplugged Week

Hey all - I hope everyone had a spectacular 4th of July! Due to a rather long weekend and a self-imposed deadline, I'm going to take an unplugged week. But be sure to come back next week for an Author Spotlight Week with the fabulous and newly published Shaun David Hutchinson! There might just be a fun giveaway to go with it! :D

Friday Funnies

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. 

~Graycie Harmon

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. 

~E.L. Doctorow

Thirty Word Thursday

Love letters and poems [and novels] aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first. 

~Graycie Harmon (with a small addition from me) :D