Getting Published!!!!

Well more people read this blog rather than the other one…

So yes I found a publisher for my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t wait to see my Naomi to come to life in print!!!!

I just though I would share that!!!

New Blog

I am officaially happy with my new blog.

I have a link to it and the chapters of my book in my blogroll

Hope you like!

Life With Naomi

Life With Naomi

I am working on a second blog called “Life With Naomi.” It is where I am going to showcase my writting.

This blog has always been a place where I have my personal rants and odd pics that I love.

So I thought a second blog for just my writing is better. This will remain my place of random insanity… I am not quite done getting the other blog ready so I have not yet posted a link to it. When I am happy with it I will link to it.

a little bit of rewriting…

So i have been reading Miss Snark’s blog, and have learns allot so far and I am not even half way through it yet. This has me thinking. I have already revised my query letters, and now I am thinking about rewritting my first few pages… Well I have but it is currently saved sepratly…

I am asking a few of my friends to read the rewrite… to be honest i can not tell wich is better… I have tried to keep miss snark’s advice in mind as I worked on it… Like I said I am not even halfway through her blog (i have been reading from the start…) I am so sad that I found her after she hung up the blog…

Now I am working on synopsis writing… I am learning about the format and hints and tips for that. I am also learning about Freelance coversheets… well i guess I am off to read some Snark before I work on the synopsis…

Rejection… not as bad as I feared…

I have sent out the first round of Query letters to agents…

I know I have to sent out allot of letter for that one “yes”

So I have started getting the rejection letters in… I am surprised by the fact that it is not as bad as I feared…

In fact one was a very sweet personal letter, rather than the form letter style. He said that he was very interested in my book, but just did not have the room for it now.

So although no one has said yes yet… No one has told me I am wasting my time either.

Some things I have written

I made a new page for the different things I have written… Some of this stuff used to be on the page about my book, but I want to try to keep that page about the book only. I am not even including the stuff from the second book on there.

After I have more done of book 2 it will get it’s own page. This is all stuff that is already in my blog but set up so it is easier for me and others to find.

I am in a weird mood today and just have the need to orgainze things… before doing this I fixed up all of my notes for Book 2 and retyped up some of my lists…

Working on Book 2/ Looking for home

I have started the second book when i was about half way thought the line edit of Life After Naomi. Mind you it is mostly notes, and ideas of what should happen.

When I wrote the first book I did not just sit down and write it. I sat down and wrote short stories and fragments and later weaved them all together into one story. I keep the over all goal of the story in mind as I write the fragments mind you but I guess it just seems less intimidating to weave a bunch of bits and pieces together than to write a book.

So of coarse this is the same way I have started the second book. I do not even have a complete chapter for it but I have a about 2,000 words. Mind you this is all very rough draft of it all. Well I wanted to post one of these fragments. Most likely this will end up a rant, but it may just be a soliloquy by Naomi. Regardless I hope you like this:

Looking For Home

I have spent much of my life in search for “home.” What ever home is? Nowhere I have ever been has had the feeling one should get from the idea of home. Well I guess that is a lie, I have felt at home for a moment. Like so many other things one finds in the moment though, it never lasts long enough. That makes it worse for once it is gone, because I long for it even more. It is when I am sad, or lonely that I miss it the most. To many times have I found myself sitting in the tub, with tears running down my face whispering, “I want to go home.” I never realize until I have said this that the words were even in my thoughts. My next is always, “Where is home?”

This is where it gets hard for me, and the simple tears turn to light sobs. Many images enter my mind when I ask myself this question. The first is always running in the Painted Desert in Arizona. After that comes the arms of the hand full of lovers who made me happiest. There are only three men who have made me feel at home in their arms. What a wonderful moment I had when I felt that way. I think those are some of the happiest moments of my life. To finally after so much searching feel like I found where I belong. The problem is I never get to stay long. Sometimes I am the one who pulls away, but more often than not I am pushed away, or even drug away by something out of my power.

Maybe I am just looking for a place to fit in more than anything. I like not conforming to mainstream society, but at the same time, the little island who is truly is an individual is a lonely place indeed. What I need is a man who can catch the wind in his grasp and a man who makes me feel at home in his arms. He must be able to keep me with out making me feel trapped, and give me home, not a cell.

I doubt I will find such a thing, at least, not for more than a moment. I just want to go home, some one point me in that direction… please. I am tired of wondering around in the mess of my mind, I am tired of lost, and alone. I know I will never be able to stay still though. I need to find  a home as ethereal as me. Is there such a thing?

My First Query Letter!

Well I have done it! I sent my first query letter out today. I am pretty excited about it too!

I must admit that at first I was scared about writing the letter. So much rides on this one page letter. Once I started writing though it just flowed. That is how most of my book came out too. I did of course do a several rewrites, and drafts on the letter, and then i also trimmed it down to the bone as much as I could.

I have been looking into agents off and on since before the book was even done. I was trying to research people to find the best fit. i found somebody that I really like, but I also know she dose not take many new people right now because she is busy. I have hopes, and we will see what happens. I will not be crushed if she dose not take me because I know she is so busy. I am not going to submit anymore letters to agents until I get a response.

So yeah I am excited!!!!!

Letter writing

Well all editing is officially done!!!

Now the hunt for the agent… I have to say I am more frightened of this than I am of writing the book!!!!

I am working on my query letter tonight… And I am compiling a list of agents that I may have a chance with…

The Title of the book is still Life after Naomi and I do not see it changing… I know I had my doubts but i think i am happy with it now

I hope agents or publishers take care of cover art.. I have no idea what I want for that… I do not even have an idea…

But anyway I am trowing myself into that as much as I can

Hard at work

I have been hard at work over the last few days improving my blogs. I am not completely done, but I am much happier with the adult blog‘s current set up. This blog dose not need as much work as I did that a few months ago. I spent all day working on it. I needed that done before I got my new reviews done for it. I hope to start working on the first of the two reviews tonight. Not sure if I will be able to do that. If not It would not be untill friday before I get started. My goal is to have the first one done this weekend.

If this is something you would be interested in feel free to look. If you are offended by adult things or under the age of 18 please do not even look. Please keep in mind that this is just one of my many projects I work on.

As for this blog I have done some work as well which i get into greater detail in the blog post I did before this.

Other Things I am going to try to work on over the next few weeks

I am hoping to do more work on my cannibal essay and maybe work on learning German.

Also I plan on writing some short stories that go with the Life After Naomi book.

I also am going to start working on a set of serial killer stories that i started along time ago that have never even been typed up. They were all hand written.

So yes… This is me just trying to stay busy… I have been kind of down recently so I want to stay busy so as not to think about how much I miss my lover…