Waking Up

Yes, I am still alive!  After several months of internet hiatus, I have finally decided to come out of hibernation.  Not that I’ve actually been sleeping on the job, mind you.  I just withdrew from my social web activities for a while to see how much more productive I could be.  And I’ve actually been doing more besides just redecorating my cave, believe it or not!

Although my online social meter has taken a bear-nose dive into the lake,  I did manage to get quite a bit done since October.   Here’s some of what I accomplished during my blogging reprieve:

• Completed yet another revision of my novel THE BEAUTY OF DEATH and sent it back out into the publishing world.  A publishing house I really like is reading the full manuscript right now
• Completed a contemporary paranormal novella, THE SUMMONING
• Started another novella, a science-fiction romance, OUT OF SYNC
• Joined the live writing group Windy City RWA, which is a a local chapter of RWA (Romance Writers of America)
• Read 2 novels, The Host by Stephanie Meyer and Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey, 4 books on the craft of writing fiction and 2 books on freelance writing
• Read and critiqued some work of my writing buddies’ that I’d been sitting on for a while
• And of course the obvious – I gave this website a makeover

And that’s with my full-time job and full family life!

So I’m pretty happy with the results!  I’m missing out on some fun stuff I’m sure, but I’ve got to stay disciplined so that I can make my dreams come true.

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