Hi–
If you follow the blog, you know that i’ve been packing and moving for months and it’s not done yet. We moved into a house that’s being renovated and it’s been chaos. We still have a garage full of boxes. In the middle of all this, i’ve been writing the second book in my Love in Laguna Series. It’s called KNAVE OF BROKEN HEARTS. It’s part of a three-book contract i signed with Dreamspinner Press. The book was due Feb 1. When i discovered i was moving, i asked for an extension and got an extra two to three weeks which made me feel a little better. Still, writing the book was painful. One time i literally wrote my agent and told her it wasn’t working and i was in despair. I was so distracted and had so many other things to do. I just kept plugging along a thousand or so words at a time but i lost my perspective. I was having trouble telling if what i was writing was any good.
Finally, as i got closer to the end, i started liking it more. I finally wrote The End at over 69,000 words toward the end of January and went through and edited line by line. Hey, not too bad. I told my agent, heroine that she is, that i wanted to try to get the book to Dreamspinner as close to the original deadline as i could. I asked her if she would please read it for me since i didn’t have time for betas. She came back in a day and said she really liked it and would have comments to me last Saturday. I spent Saturday writing a synopsis and got the track changes from my agent Saturday evening. OMG, she loved the book, barely made any edits, and told me to accept the changes and send it to the publisher. I was so amazed. That’s exactly what i did. The story went to Dreamspinner on Sunday. Yep, February 1st, the original deadline. And today, Tuesday, the publisher came back, said i’d been a bright spot in the week, and she has sent the book to editing!
HAPPPPPY Dance. And a lesson in the power of doing a little at a time and not giving up — even when you want to!
Knave of Broken Hearts will be released sometime in the summer. : D