Alright, as the first blog on a new site, I feel I should catch you up on what has happened so far. Here's the low down on my books, my muse and a little snippet of my life on occasion.

If you want to see things from the beginning (October 2009) then you can check out either of my other two blogs. www.booksbydiedra.wordpress.com or www.booksbydiedra.webs.com. (Seeing a pattern here?)

Sat down near the end of Sep 2009 and a book fell out of my head and onto the keyboard. Consequently, I am now awaiting publishing. You say "Great!" Right? Mostly right.

After sending off some queries and getting no answers at all, I started getting a bit antsy about the time line. There wasn't actually a time line, but I felt like time was running out. Just one of those gut feelings. I felt like the market would be prime for my book, "Going Green Without Going Broke", in Feb or Mar of 2010. Obviously, waiting on an agent, then an editor, then a publishing house was NOT in the cards for me. Luckily, I found a sponsor for my book and did the self-publishing thing. Right now, the ms is in, the illustrations and pictures are in, the back cover is done, the About the Book and About the Author are complete and turned in as well. The ms is currently in the 'content review' stage. Hopefully next week I will get the introduction to my design team and we can start working on a cover. Everything else is gravy. The book is due out, and get this, in late Feb or early Mar of 2010. Coincidence? I think not. ;-)

Meanwhile, I had a couple of concept pieces I wrote a while back and was lucky enough to find a site called Scribophile.com. It's great. You critique other writer's works, they critique yours. It's a lot of work, but worth it for what you get. They took the two pieces and tore them to shreds. Constructively of course, but it made me realize I have one serious flaw in my style of writing. No story. I sit down and write what falls out of my head, there is no story, no direction, no ending, no beginning.....in short, it's a short series of scenes, nothing more. If you're a writer and you want someone to look at your work with fresh eyes, this is the place to go.

I have a few plotlines I am trying to work out, to see if I can write on them. I would like to be into at least the 3rd chapter or so of the new book when my first one comes out. Granted, the first one is non-fiction, this one will be fiction, but that's ok. I want to keep them about a year apart. At least I think I do. From here on out, when I post to my other blogs, I will post here as well. Feel free to follow along with my musings and frustrations. It might give you something to laugh about.