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My Big News
Jan. 26th, 2009 11:47 amWhich I've been repeating in all the places I haunt, so you've probably seen this already, but...
On Friday, my agent offically closed a three-book deal for a new YA series for my alter ego, Tate Hallaway. The first book is tentatively called TO DIE FOR (ALMOST!) and features a fifteen-year old Saint Paul girl who's father is a vampire prince and her mother is a real Witch. I wrote the proposals in the humorous, light tone of many of Tate's books, so, hopefully, they'll be a lot of fun to write. (Let's hope fast, too, since the first one is due on October 15, 2009. Yes, that makes three books due in 2009 for me and my alter-ego. Should be... intense.)
Speaking of which, I just went into the negative numbers for words written on HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD today. I'm doing revision, and, having recently figured out what I want the book to be about, I had to do some massaging of the text. It's an auspicious day for revisions, though, being the New Moon.
We had a busy weekend, too, so I didn't get much writing done since Friday when I agreed to tween-sit a friend's daughter, Samantha. Samantha, Mason and I spent much of the day at the zoo, which was great fun....though WICKED cold. And then, when I called Samantha's dad about something she'd accidentally left at our house, they spontaneously dropped by on Saturday and ended up staying for dinner. Mason is extremely enamoured of Samantha, though it took nearly the entire weekend for him to get her name right. Though physcially very different, Samantha's personality is strikingly similar to our friends' from Colorado's daughter, Maggie. Mason spent the entire day on Friday calling poor Samantha "Maggie." I think I did it at least twice as well.
Sunday we had a pajama day. Despite a quick run I had to make to the grocery store (no milk!), the whole family spent the day in bed reading and otherwise lazing around. It was fantastic. I gave myself a last vacation day before beginning the big writing push, which, really starts tomorrow, since I'm also giving myself today to get my revisions done.
Hope all y'all had a great weekend. I'm going to have another Marvel Tarot to post this week, as I drew Professor X as Heirophant on Sunday, and I have another cute YouTube video of our cat All Ball chasing her own tail that I'll link here sometime later this week.
Hey, guess what? Obama is still president.
Doesn't that just make your day?
On Friday, my agent offically closed a three-book deal for a new YA series for my alter ego, Tate Hallaway. The first book is tentatively called TO DIE FOR (ALMOST!) and features a fifteen-year old Saint Paul girl who's father is a vampire prince and her mother is a real Witch. I wrote the proposals in the humorous, light tone of many of Tate's books, so, hopefully, they'll be a lot of fun to write. (Let's hope fast, too, since the first one is due on October 15, 2009. Yes, that makes three books due in 2009 for me and my alter-ego. Should be... intense.)
Speaking of which, I just went into the negative numbers for words written on HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD today. I'm doing revision, and, having recently figured out what I want the book to be about, I had to do some massaging of the text. It's an auspicious day for revisions, though, being the New Moon.
We had a busy weekend, too, so I didn't get much writing done since Friday when I agreed to tween-sit a friend's daughter, Samantha. Samantha, Mason and I spent much of the day at the zoo, which was great fun....though WICKED cold. And then, when I called Samantha's dad about something she'd accidentally left at our house, they spontaneously dropped by on Saturday and ended up staying for dinner. Mason is extremely enamoured of Samantha, though it took nearly the entire weekend for him to get her name right. Though physcially very different, Samantha's personality is strikingly similar to our friends' from Colorado's daughter, Maggie. Mason spent the entire day on Friday calling poor Samantha "Maggie." I think I did it at least twice as well.
Sunday we had a pajama day. Despite a quick run I had to make to the grocery store (no milk!), the whole family spent the day in bed reading and otherwise lazing around. It was fantastic. I gave myself a last vacation day before beginning the big writing push, which, really starts tomorrow, since I'm also giving myself today to get my revisions done.
Hope all y'all had a great weekend. I'm going to have another Marvel Tarot to post this week, as I drew Professor X as Heirophant on Sunday, and I have another cute YouTube video of our cat All Ball chasing her own tail that I'll link here sometime later this week.
Hey, guess what? Obama is still president.
Doesn't that just make your day?
