If You Were Curious...

I've decided to use my website as my blog these days, but don't worry, everything on here is still readable there! If you'd like to check it out, just follow the link below for updates and news. :)

http://www.wix.com/bkadk89/brittany-engstrand-official

Update!

I know it's been quite some time since I've updated, but I have good news! The first unedited half of Melaney and The Mirror is now available on Authonomy! It's got a long way to go, but I think the story is moving along quite nicely. :) Also, check out some updates on my website, you can now view some of the chapter and intermission pictures for the book (done by yours truly).

As for My Last Notes, there is a brand new extended trailer (also on my website) that I promise is way better than the first. I'm hoping I won't be late in that June first deadline, even though it's a few days away, my husband decided to clean one day and lost my USB drive with all of my edits on it. So, needless to say, I'm a bit on the unmotivated side when it comes to that right now.

Also, Authonomy ended up changing the ranking system on me during a break I took, so I am having to restart at the bottom and hope to rise up once again! I'm already in the 1200's out of thousands more in the slush pile. I'll update soon on the new release date for the final manuscript of My Last Notes.

Thanks for reading!

New Trial Cover!

I just made a second cover for Melaney and the Mirror (right)! What do you think- better than the first (the tree picture is my first experiment) or should I just stop procrastinating all together and just write already, leaving it to the professionals? :]

New updates: I've decided to go back to school and I start in October. I'm hoping to get straight A's and go on to med school (yes, that is my lifelong dream believe it or not) and become an amazing surgeon. It's a far away dream but I figure why the heck not.

Savvy will be two in October... I can't believe my baby is no longer a baby! Not only that but she talks like an actual person now haha. My best friend in the whole world is having a baby (due in April) and we are definitely all excited about that too.

Well, I think that's all the updates I have for now! Don't forget to vote for your favorite cover! (I know, no one reads this but hey, maybe someone will one day!)

The Highlights of the Game

A lot has happened for me the past few... how long has it been since I've updated? Here's the highlights (Get it? Highlights of the game of life!) :



My Last Notes is rated #2 best vampire book on Authonomy!! Number one, watch out, here I come!

I've been fired from my day job merely weeks after I turned down an offer for another job (my current boss gave me a raise to stay) just because he decided he wanted to close down the office and not work anymore.

I'm officially Mrs. Brittany Engstrand. Recorded in the Clerk's Office and all. Woo hoo!

Now that I'm jobless, I'll have time to go do the official name changing paperwork as well as complete all my writing and editing that's been in my head and not yet on paper.

Realization: It's been too hot to do anything outside lately. Truth: I have no life.

I think I've figured out the basis of the romance part of Melaney and the Mirror, meaning I can get back to writing. Artemis (yes, I named the writer in my brain) and myself have a love/hate relationship. I hate that when I write I start out with no idea where I'm headed with the subject.


Well, that should be about all I think. Cheers for now!

Heroes and Heroines

I've decided my new favorite super hero is Iron Man. For the longest time I thought maybe Batman, because he was actually a real person (not really, he's fictional but he doesn't actually have super powers). Now I'm thinking I like Iron Man because he's super smart and he's comparable to an actual person. Plus he drives Audi's.

This gets me thinking, believe it or not, if my 'heriones' are 'hero' worthy. It's important for us writers to let the readers escape and really relate to and love our character(s). My project this week: finish my major editing and make sure my characters are wonderful. :]

Today's The Day...

I emailed an agent a month ago, with a month being the turn-around time, and today marks that time period exactly (well, really it would have been yesterday, but it was a Sunday). Then again, it also said "If you don't hear back in two months, please resend..." but then I feel like it wasn't interesting enough to begin with. I feel nervous and somewhat overconfident, or maybe the right word is over-hopeful? Ughhh shishkabob! That's all I can think of to discribe it.

New Trailer!

Yes, that's right, My Last Notes now has a trailer. I hear video trailers are the new things for books. So, check it out and tell me what you think! : ]

My Last Notes Trailer

YouTube cut of the first second and a half of video, so it starts off kind of weird, but I'm not going to delete and reupload yet again for that to still not work. Thanks for the support! (to the no one's who read these haha)