Still in the Works!

I know that I haven't posted much about Madison 2 lately, and I deeply apologize for the delay.  I just finished my first set of revisions on a YA novel I wrote, and it's taken precedence lately.  I will say that Madison 2 is still definitely in the works, and I hope to publish it soon, maybe within the next month.  I will do my best to get it published for you, and thank you so much for your patience and understanding!

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61,000 Words and Other Stuff

The book is still progressing better than I could have hoped.  My target is still around 90,000 words, and I hope to expand more sections of story, and add a few more twists to the plot.

This weekend was a little bit of a challenge, because I met up with some family.  It was nice, and they asked how my writing was going.  I felt bad, because I won't tell them my pen name.  The Madison series of books have some grown-up type content in them, and I would prefer that my family didn't read those stories.  I feel like I may have hurt some of their feelings.  One even said 'well if you wrote it, it can't be that bad'.  Unfortunately though, it has more adult content than I would like them to know I write about.

The good thing is that the book I'm currently working on can be read be most any age, as there is no bad language or sexual content.  I'm looking forward to sharing this story with them.

Thank you again readers for waiting patiently for Madison 2.  I'm still waiting to get my edits back from two people, so I have no set timeline for its release.

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55k and Counting!

So I've hit 55,000 words, and I feel like when I hit 60,000 it will all be downhill from there.  I was finally able to write a section that I'd come up with a few weeks ago, but hadn't written enough story yet to reach the point where I could add it.  I'm very much hoping to come up with a couple more clever ideas to go along with it, but the first idea was challenging enough to come up with in the first place.  I just hope that this book is truly as good as I feel it is. :-)  <3

50,000 WORDS!!!

Just this morning I hit 50,000 words, and I'm so excited about it.  The story is coming along so much better than I could have hoped.  I'm back into a writing groove, and I came up with a really cool idea for something that the main character will have to deal with.  I've written down notes about it so that I don't forget.

I'm seriously considering publishing this new book under my real name, so that friends and family can enjoy it too.  It's hard to decide, because I use this pen name to retain my anonymity.  I have no idea how big my new book will be, but if it's as big as hope it is, and think it could be, people could possibly recognize my name.  I could always come up with a new pen name, but I don't know what I would use if I did.

45,000 Words!!! Also, My Late Laptop.

So my laptop died, and I replaced it with a Chromebook.  What's that you say, a Chromebook won't work for my needs!  Yes, well, I have installed Ubuntu on it, and OpenOffice, and FireFox, so I can do everything now I could do on my old laptop, only faster!!!  The only thing I don't like about it is the touchpad.  Thankfully, writing doesn't require too much touchpadding.  And, I got the new lappy-toppy for the reasonable price of $200!!!  Also, even though it has a small hard drive (16GB), for my needs it's totally adequate.  I picked it because the drive is an SSD drive, and it takes all of 2 seconds for my laptop to boot up.  *Does happy dance!*

Anyway, so I moved the book I'm writing over to the new laptop.  On the old one, with formatting and such, it said it was about 130 pages.  Now that I've moved it over, it says it's 157 pages.  So I can't really give good page counts.  The good news is that I'm trying to make this book about the size that Hunger Games was, which was 99,000 words.  So I'm nearly halfway there!  I just hope I can keep writing quality story, and come up with interesting things for people to read.  I'm going back through the start and revising up to a point, at which point I'll be adding more story.  Hopefully that goes well.

Love you readers!!! <3 <3 <3

Madison: Shattered Wings Edits Nearly Done!!!

So I just finished making the changes that my editor and fans have suggested!!!  I've sent it back to my editor to get her take and final sign-off on it!  I am so excited to get this book into your hands, thank you so much for your patience!!!  I wanted to thank everyone involved with the making of this book, and guaranteed the next book will come out much quicker than the last one!!! <3 <3 <3

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I'm still working on the first book of my epic trilogy.  I plan to come back and write a third book in the Madison series, but it may be a while before it happens.  I'm already 120 pages in on the first epic trilogy book after nearly a month-and-a-half, so I should be able to finish it in only a few more months, or so I hope!!!

Thank you again readers, you are what makes writing worthwhile!!! <3

Blog Blog Blog, All Day Long, Gonna Blog Blog Blog While I Sing My Song

So I've reached 119 pages, which I'm feeling pretty good about!  I was worried that I'd get stuck in my writing, and it seemed like I started to, so I jumped to a different section, and it seems to have helped a lot.  I've never written a story out of order the way I am on this book, and I just have to hope that I can find and fix any continuity issues that may come up.  I'm going to have to re-write some sections, because of things I'm adding in.  But I'm still loving the writing process.  Last night I was able to write while sitting on my balcony, and I got a little sun.  Nice to be able to do that. :-)

And again, I love all you readers out there!!! <3 <3 <3