El Segundo Author Fair  

You know I re-read the opening chapter of my third book, and it is really good. Yeah, I know it's my own opinion and all, but I can see progress from the first book to the third. My prose got tighter, my sentence structure better, and my punctuation not bad at all!

So this is where the dilemma starts. I have the opportunity to submit my book (one of them) to a small publisher. Which do I use? The first that isn't as tight, the second which I've gotten really good feedback on, or the third (which is my husband's favorite) which continues the saga and shows my writing progress.

Either way I need to decide by tomorrow since I have hemmed and hawed now for a week since I contacted them on FB. And the main question I have is how can anyone make a determination about a story from 1 chapter????

I guess I'll know that eventually. Huh?

Well I thought I had the solution to my book 4 problem (A Class in Murder). The adoption idea looked really good, but I don't know how to have a murder that might be considered "notorious." Becaue if it's in the papers when Lydia goes to do her research, what good is the rest of the book? Do I make the mystery the adoption, and the reason why the baby was adopted out and somehow incorporate the murder into that??? Now that might work.

So as you can see I am still in a quandry!!!! I need to also contact my editor for book three and see how far she got before the train derailed. She had two grandsons born, a wedding and another on the way, plus finishing her dissertation, so I think my request has fallen somewhere in the crack of life! Not a worry. I will work out some how in the end!

Keep checking in...and don't give up on me yet!

So I had lots of plans for my new year. The gym, scrapbooking, genealogy and writing. Needless to say I got through three of my 4 and you can figure that writing wasn't one of them. I have a great idea for revamping number 4 but am trying not to make it a repeat of any of the other murders. It has the twist of adoption in it. The hard part is using the genealogy to prove the murder, because I don't want it to be too easy (they open a newspaper or a court record and voile there's the muderder. That would be boring!!!!). So that is where I am a tad stuck right now.

If you have any ideas, e-mail me. It takes place in Massachusetts.

And I promise to blog more often. What good is it if you have nothing to read when you visit!