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Currently Listening To: KoKoKaina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMH86_UqFw4

Currently Reading: No Regrets by Michele Young.

If you've never heard of KoKoKaina please click on the link. You'll fall in love with her immediately! She has this beautiful, vintage jazz sound. I can't wait until her first CD comes out.

Well as far as my revisions go...I'm up to page 109! I'm spending every spare moment I have on them. It's still slow going though. I've been adding more romance in as I go. I think with almost any book I read, the true reason for my like or dislike is the romance (with the possible exception of Harry Potter). I grew up reading fairy tales and watching Disney movies. I get so much satisfaction when a character gets her prince. Don't you?

Making Pies

Currently Listening to: Patty Griffen "Making Pies"
Currently Reading: Nothing. I'm waiting for The Gallows Girl to get to my house. I had to order it on amazon.com b/c it's not available here in the US.

Well I finished Breaking Dawn. Don't worry, I won't post any spoilers...it was very good though. Exactly what I'd expect from Stephenie Meyer. I literally spent the past 3 days doing almost nothing but revising. I think with this new revision my book might end up being a lot longer than I initially planned. I suppose that's a good thing, b/c my first draft was only 50k words. The only break I took from revising was to start watching Dexter on dvd with R., my significant other. We were bored on Thursday and picked it up on a whim I had, but it is really, REALLY good. R. loves it too. He was surprised that I chose something he actually enjoyed. Sigh. I guess I've bombarded him with too many chick flicks :) in the past.

There's been a cool front in Cincy for almost a week now, and it's been amazing. I'm so ready for fall! I actually hate summer in general. There's too much sun and heat. I think I could happily live in Seattle (just for the rain). People look at me like I'm insane when I say I'm excited for snow.... Snow and ice always go together here and it often leads to horrible traffic. But who cares about the awful traffic when the landscape is so beautiful?

Sweetest Downfall

Currently Reading: Breaking Dawn
Currently Listening to: "Samson" by Regina Spektor
"You are my sweetest downfall..." That has to be one of my all time favorite lines from a song. And it fits well with how my mc feels for her love interest. Once I've got the revisions finished, I'll come up with a playlist for my book. I love it when my favorite authors do that. It's a great way to go even further in depth into the characters' emotions. Does anyone else enjoy this?
Speaking of my revisions I'm hoping to make it to 50 percent finished by Monday night. It's a pretty steep goal, but we'll see how I do.

Currently Listening To: My Jack Russell tapping around the house.

Currently Reading: Nothing, sigh, I'm still waiting for Breaking Dawn to come out on Saturday.

My revisions are going well. I've hit a wall a few times over the past couple of days, but I think I've made it through. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm so anxious for Breaking Dawn to come out! It's awesome that 2 Stephanie Meyers books have come out this year! The Host was excellent, with 2 very compelling love stories.

The next book that I'm really looking forward to is The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, by Lauren Willig. Every book she writes is better than it's predecessor.

Anyway, enough blabbing about books I want to read...Let's move on to the books I'm writing!

Since I put up a picture of the main character from my first novel, I thought I'd post one of my MC from my second novel (still a WIP - with a LONG way to go) too. This is very close to how I imagine her:

Hip Hip Hurrah!

I receive the contract today! Yey! It's signed and in the back in the mail, ready to return to New York.

Update: Revising Madly

Currently Listening to: Matt Nathansen
Currently Reading: Nothing, I'm waiting for Breaking Dawn to come out this weekend.
Hi all! Well now that I have an agent (squeal) I'm working on the revisions she suggested. I am attempting to make my novel less literary (I was surprised to hear my novel is literary!) and more commercial. Things are going well. I've set a goal for myself (timeline) and I'm very confident that I will meet it. I found a beautiful drawing on Deviantart.com of Romola Garai yesterday. It's exactly what I imagine my main character as. It was done by AngelAvril. Check out her page here: http://angelavril.deviantart.com/art/Romola-Garai-35479215 . Here's how I invision Imogene:

I HAVE AN AGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle Andelman from Andrea Brown offered me a contract yesterday! I'm so excited! She's really nice, and has some wonderful ideas on how to improve my novel. I'm so grateful to God for this. It really is such a blessing, and gift! I know how many people want agents, and he steered me toward the one that is perfect for me.