31. July 2008 by colleen.

Off to mail a few more queries and another request. I’m determined to work on WIP #1 for a couple of hours today. Yesterday, I worked on WIP #2 and had some successful parts and some questionable parts– but that book is an entirely different bowl of wax. Sorry for the cliche’. What does that even mean-candle? Also, I received some chapters from one of my beta readers and worked on them a bit.

Thinking positive today. Plus, my house is being cleaned by a new cleaning woman who is obsessive/compulsive about cleanliness. Should be interesting. Could be great fodder for my WIP #1-since one character has obsessive/compulsive traits.

I know Jen Hubbard addressed this in her blog but I use lots of my observations–especially the weird behaviors in my book. Are writers obsessive people watchers?

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29. July 2008 by colleen.

I should be happy. I have seven fulls out and only two passed. Yesterday, I had a request for a partial after only 20 minutes from my email.

Yet, I still cry at night. Why? Because after seven years nothing has come to fruition? I can’t imagine success? Maybe, it’s just the nature of writers or maybe it’s just me.

What do you think?

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23. July 2008 by colleen.

Last night I was reading a book. The clock kept ticking away—and I kept reading. It was 2 am but I was almost finished–so I continued. When I  got to the end — the big climax of the book—it said ‘to find out what happens you must read the next book in the series’.

How would you feel? Can’t wait to get the next book? I felt cheated. Is this common in books that are written in a series? Something new? My feeling is that each book should be able to stand on its own. Any thoughts?

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22. July 2008 by colleen.

On Publisher’s Lunch I read about an offer being made by Tor Books, where the author Jason Pinter is offering visitors to his web site free online access to the first book in his Henry Parker series, THE MARK. Pinter also offers to thank in the acknowledgments of next year’s book any fan who links to the free offer, posts the widget or e-mails five friends and notifies Pinter.

I think I’ll do it.

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21. July 2008 by colleen.

I try to keep busy and stop looking for messages left on my answering machine, emails in my inbox, or something in the mailbox (you know what I’m looking for).

Tonight, I’ll work on editing work, my WIP, and finishing that magazine article.

I need a dose of motivation.

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19. July 2008 by admin.

I got the idea for this from something one of the characters in Soul Enchilada (SoulEnchilada.com) reads off of a warped fortune cookie: “If you love something, set it free before you have to pay child support.”

Here’s the candy heart I created with the phrase:

Now, let’s see what you can create!

To enter:

1. Create your own candy heart at http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/ . Your heart can say anything you’d like. You are not limited to phrases from the ARC (since you haven’t read it).

2. Copy and paste this entire post–as well as the image of your candy heart–on your blog, Facebook, MySpace, website, etc.

3. Once you’ve completed #3, email me at davidmacinnisgill AT gmail.com with the link to your post. Voila! You’re entered in the giveaway.

4. The contest will be judged by three teen readers based on the criteria of originality, design, and message. The contest closes July 31st.

5. The prize is a personalized, signed ARC and a special gift, TDB by the judges. The winner will be contacted via email. Her/his name and winning entry candy heart will be posted on my lj blog, as well as my home site DavidMacinnisGill.com.

Good Luck!

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19. July 2008 by admin.

The temperature today is 82 degrees but it feels like it’s in the 90’s. I bought some lovely smelling lavender plants and my son planted them for me. I need to make more lavender cookies for a project I’m working on. You may think–yuk–but they are actually very good. I’m still messing with the ingredient amounts.

Pondering my WIP character’s actions and realized that I need to make some changes. Still waiting to hear from all the agents reading my last novel. Thinking about making a trailer for it. I wonder if perspective agents would like to see something like that?

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