Rebecca, Thanks so much for your interest. I don't know how I missed your friend request earlier - I used to get emails about those, but apparently not anymore. Looking forward to learning more about you and your work! Take care, Cara

>Looks like your France trip is amazing.  I've been following the pics and updates on FB!  Thanks for letting me live vicariously.

Thank you for coming along vicariously. And fingers crossed for the agents!

Hi Rebecca!

Oh my word, I didn't even see this comment until now. I've been a little absent on SheWrites (and now that I'm looking at your wall, I'm seeing you post your blogs here...I never even thought about doing that, how smart!). What's the news on the agent? Or agents? Crossing fingers! :) That's exciting!

I'm working on my last edit of Kyresa—I actually gave up on the editor I was going to work with because she was a little heavy-handed (read: Eva's voice didn't feel like Eva's voice) and really slow. So I'm giving it a whirl by myself one last time with some suggestions from a couple pals, taking a deep breath, crossing my fingers and toes, and sending her out into the wilderness to try and find an agent. We shall see what happens...I'm hoping to finish the edit in the next month.

Loving your blog posts and being connected to you on WP, Miss. :)

-Eva

I've put all other projects on hold while I work on the Story-A-Day-May challenge. My goal for the challenge: one short story a day in May, Monday through Friday (with weekends off to let my brain rest, lol).

I've also been doing the Mom thing, coupled with massive spring cleaning because I JUST CAN'T LIVE THIS WAY ANYMORE.  ;)  Too many (unfinished) projects, so I'm knuckling down and getting them done.  "Knuckling down" - I don't think I've ever used that term in writing before.  It looks wrong... but it feels exactly right...

On the writing front, I've been working steadily on the second draft of my novel.  There's a research hole I need to plug, so I've been doing a lot of reading and reworking, and I just realized something about my villain's backstory that I'm going to need to clarify.  This whole writing in another time period thing (Victorian, in my case) - huh.  Not sure it was the smartest decision.  But I had no choice, this is the story that wanted to be written.

Finally, it's the beginning of pitching/staffing season out here in LA, so my pitch consulting work is getting very busy.  Which I love, it's so much fun.  It's just a question of keeping all the balls in the air through the summer. 

Good luck with the agents!  What do you tutor in at your daughters' school?  I help out with math.

Cheers -- Laura

Hey there Rebecca! Glad to hear about your work. As soon as my internet is not acting moody, I have to check out that link and see what that is all about. You are light-years ahead of me in the writing department. Still in the drafting phase of my paranormal and now I am in the middle of a big move so everything is crazy. I am very happy for you, and I hope all good things soon to come.

Congrats on the agents - WOOT!

Hey Rebecca!

That's terrific.  I hope those requests go well. I'm busy revising two novels, "Paladin Honor" and "The Snow Lion of Rset."  I hope to get queries out on "Paladin Honor" sometime next month, but have been too busy to get around to it so far.  I've also been marketing my indie book "A School for Villains" with a free promotion on Amazon.

Hope all your writing goes well!

PS It's said Ar-dith Dee Brian (like the first name)

HI Rebecca, Thanks for your update and I wish you the best of luck with your search for an agent. As for me, I just finished my semester teaching and have some exams to grade and then prep for a guest lecturer gig at a university in Mexico in June and July. Then I'll have the rest of the summer (I hope I hope!) to finish my book (comedy travelogue - two girls on the road, inspecting B&Bs all over France). And I recently started writing snarky, leftist political rants at Wonkette (DC gossip site).