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!)

Melaney and The Mirror

I have a new novel I've been working on :) In spite of trying to publish My Last Notes, I am taking my own advice and, instead of waiting to write until I have this one squared away, I am writing everything I can and want with this one. It's quite the test of your imagination, if I do say so myself. I'll give you a little hint on the storyline:

Melaney and her family inherit an ancient mirror from her grandmother when she passes that unexpectedly transports her into this creepy mirror world. It's sort of like Alice in Wonderland meets a Tim Burton film (not to be confused with Alice in Wonderland filmed by Time Burton)- with my own twist of course. :) I'd love any thoughts on this idea!

Aside from that, My Last Notes just underwent a pretty large edit after my trip to New York- amazing by the way, everyone should go at least once! The book continues to rise up in the ranks and I'm eager for a response from an agent due at the end of this month! On top of all that my wedding is in less than 3 months. Wish me luck!

The Regretful Historian

(New cover by the amazing Bradley Wind :] )

I got a comment today referencing a book called The Historian today. I've never read it, but I recognised the name from another comment as well. The first comment I got was stating that my book was a relief because it didn't "get lost in detail, like say, The Historian". The more recent comment said that My Last Notes was just as epic as The Historian. I know it's all opinion so I may have to check this book out myself. I hate reading books similar to my own, only because I don't want the story in my head to get mixed with a similar one, otherwise it would sound like I'm writing about the same old thing when in reality it was my idea first! (that's me holding a bit of a grudge against the writer of Twilight, although her books aren't horrible, the last one was a bit odd and the writing could have been a little better. I was still crushed when I saw the preview for the movie on TV after I had started my idea seven years prior... that's my own stupidity for not writing it all down like I should have been!)

Which comes to my next thought- my one and only regret I've ever had in my life. No, it's not that I had a beautiful baby before I was married or the fact that I "did it" (as my mom's old pastor would say) for the first time with a guy I had been with for THREE YEARS. (still a little angry about all that) No, it all happened when I was much younger. I was maybe about twelve or so. I prayed as hard as I could to that higher power in the sky watching over all of us and asked for a dream. I wanted a story- one story that would be a bestseller and one that had all the elements in it. And so it was. My dream had mystery, suspense, horror, love, anything and everything you could imagine and it was a perfect story that no one had thought of. Unfortunately when I woke up again that's all I could remember about it because I thought it was so perfect there was no way I could forget. That is undoubtably my luck.

For my conclusion, I will write this piece of advice- write everything and anything down that pops into your head, even if it doesn't have a story to it yet and it's only a scene or a phrase. Great writing isn't hard to achieve, it's only harder when you can't remember that tiny piece that made it fit together.