Yearly Archive March 21, 2016

Sample Chapter for James Patterson Co-writing Contest

Check out the sample chapter I’m submitting for the James Patterson Co-writing Contest! I’m really excited about this story, and so impatient to get the whole thing out there. The submission deadline is tomorrow, and I’m doing the final tweaks tonight, so if you have any feedback (which I would LOVE), be sure to submit it in the comments ASAP!

Thanks again for all the support!

The chapter I’m submitting is the second chapter, when the main character, Charlie, has just come home from a week-long business trip to find someone else living there.

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Loving the Feedback! Keep It Coming!

I am thrilled with the feedback I’ve been getting on the synopsis and hook for the James Patterson co-writing competition. Your insights are truly helpful in fine-tuning an idea I’m really excited about. Thank you!

I’ve listened to the comments I’ve received so far, and done a bit of tweaking. What do you think of the updated version of the book summary? (Joan, I tried, but I couldn’t get it to work with the husband’s name in the first sentence.)

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***INPUT REQUESTED*** Hard At Work On Something New

Good afternoon to all my friends! I haven’t posted much in the past few weeks, because I’ve been hard at work on something exciting!

This is a long shot, I’ll grant that. But I’m working on a submission to a contest to CO-WRITE A BOOK WITH JAMES PATTERSON! How amazing is that? As I said, it’s a long shot. And, since it has to be something within his standard mystery/thriller genre, I had to come up with yet another story idea, but I’m very excited about my new idea, which I’ll outline below.

I am DYING for your feedback on this, so even if you would normally just skim through my post and think to yourself, “That’s nice. She’s writing something,” please, please, please leave me a tiny little comment with your thoughts – if you love it, if you hate it, or if you just think that it’s not for you. Or you can leave me a nice, long comment. I’m not picky.

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Listening To…

I’ve been at work all day on my new project (still to be discussed when I reach a point where I can post more information), but am so enthralled with my music in the background I had to share. I’m listening to my Slow Trance station on Pandora, grooving out to these, most recently: Read More

Listening To…

I’m working hard on something very exciting (more on that in an upcoming post) and listening to my Yearning/Nostalgic Pandora playlist. I’ve really been digging Florence + The Machine and Lana Del Rey, neither of which I’ve never listened to before, so they’ve been added as artists to the playlist.

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Aaaaannnd…Done!

The site has been fully transitioned to a (paid) host with guaranteed uptime; there should be no further issues. Read on!

Hell in the Real World

I’ve been tweaking the world of Hell for Hell’s Queen, coming up with the questions that have to be answered in order to make it work.  I thought it would be interesting to post the thought process, and would love to hear your thoughts. I’ve never had a boring conversation when the topic has been “What happens after we die?”

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Site Transition Complete… With a Caveat

While I’m building up this site and reaching new readers, I’m cutting costs by using a free web host. However, my site has been down almost as often as up during my new site development and transfer to the new host. I challenge you to find a free web host that provides good uptime and good customer service – if you do, you win the internet for the day, and a character named after you in one of my books! That said, it is possible that the site will continue to experience occasional downtime until the 60 day waiting period is up, at which time I can transfer my site to paid hosting with acceptable levels of downtime (that is, 99.95% uptime guarantee). I apologize in advance if you have trouble accessing the site, and please bear with me as I work through my growing pains.

On a more positive note, after days and days and days of working to improve the site, I am ready for the big reveal. I still have some modifications to make, but I’m comfortable enough with the design to make it public, and to get back to writing! I would love to hear your feedback on the updated site!

The Prophecy

This is the prophecy (that will be explained in the story). It was written in 1753, and gives information on the disaster Callie will be battling, the year of her birth, and the year of the disaster. I’d love to get feedback on what you think the different lines mean!

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Site Maintenance

I’m transferring the hosting of crystaljag.com, so the site may be unavailable during the process. I will update when the process is complete!

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