Thanks, Mary Lynn, for the friend invitation. I'm not totally new to She Writes, but I've just begun exploring the groups and learning more about the opportunities here. I look forward to "getting to know you" better.

thabk you very much Mary Lynn for the warm and friendly welcome to your group. I am glad to be here and look forward to following discussions and meeting people. I am awfully busy as you can imagine trying to market 12 freaking books at once! I have not really figured out how to do that yet. You are a little mislead about my publishing success...altho I DO have 12 books on the market, they are all self-published, and all in one year. I am a grandmother who has been writing for 20 years and sticking the manuscripts in the closet. So when I discovered affordable Createspace one year ago, I learned the system and started publishing! Its been a fun, interesting, and exhausting year and the work has just begun. What  I am doing now is remembering my priorities. My real work is psychic research and I must continue to work. But I can devote some time to marketing and am doing so...but you know, if I really devote myself to marketing, it makes me unhappy. Its like being a part of a ravenous pack of wolves all fighting for the same piece of meat. There has to be a better way, and there is..so I am working to stay there. To produce work of real value is the way to attract people. thank you again for your welcome.Sarah

Thank you very much for the warm welcome.  I look forward to learning more about the group.  I do have Facebook although I haven't figured out how to use it with anything, e.g., my blog.  I don't use Twitter yet; I'm still figuring out how to use it for something more valuable than what I ate for breakfast.  No doubt there are ladies here who'll have thoughts on that.

I've been blogging for a little bit longer than it looks.  I moved from Blogger because it was making my life miserable; I moved my favorite posts and killed that one.  Sorry if the move makes it more difficult for anyone to follow; I'll at least be able to write more often.

MaryLynne, We're delighted to have you in the novelist group! You might introduce yourself by telling us what you’re working on in the “Show Me Your Novel and I’ll Show You Mine” discussion if you're not too uncomfortable talking about what you're working on. We save the wall for discussion, so please refrain from linking to blog posts there, but do add them in the “Links to Helpful Blog Posts for Writers” discussion thread.

And we do a live chat on Fridays at 3EST; instructions on how to participate are in the "Our Water Cooler" box near the top of the group page.

Meg Waite Clayton
Novelist Group Moderator
Bestselling Author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and The Language of Light, a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize

Hi Marylynne,

I would very much be interested in having you as a guest on my blog Literary Legs (http://literarylegs.blogspot.com). I've received such a strong show of interest from others in participating in author interviews that I've decided to do two interviews per month. Even so, spaces have filled up quickly, and I won't be able to fit you in until the end of April. If you're still interested in participating around that time, I would love to host you! Shoot me an email at laurapage_@hotmail.com.

Best,

Laura Page

Hi MaryLynn, 

Thanks for being my friend back! I'll keep my fingers crossed for your book. I think at this stage everything just takes a lot of time, but it's worth if it means you end up with people who love your work and 'get' you. I've had a couple of near misses that were devastating at the time, but now I am so glad those rejections came through. They would have sent me in a direction I would not have been comfortable with, and so would have failed, and one was just far too soon. 

Hang on in there!

Juliet 

Welcome to SheWrites. Feel free to reach out if you need anything.

Jill Starishevsky

Author, My Body Belongs to Me

http://www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com

Hello marylynn!!!

Thank you SO mcuh for joining my group Blooming Late!

I am so glad you jumped right in and introduced yourself to the group! Please let us know your writing accomplishments and goals in that discussion area.

Feel free to peruse the Resources section too for a lot of good info our group about what they have found helpful in their writing process.

You will find that there this group has a wonderful group of women who are a great source of support, encouragement and inspiration so don't hesitate to shat about anything you'd like.

Glad you are here and Welcome to Blooming late!

Samantha Stacia

I'm in the (painful) process of editing my first book, a christian drama/romance. That's basically my genre...I'm also writing two others right now....one is a strong christian story; the other doesn't have a lot of christian elements...yet.

My novel (Caroline) is about a girl who has had a rough 16 years. She's been sexually abused by her dad, was raped, and is pregnant (from the rape). She meets David, who is convinced it is his job to protect her and help her raise her child. She fights him every step of the way, even though she's fallen in love with him...hard. Of course, he's loved her from the moment they met...

My other books are about a man who finds that he has the gift of healing and a wedding tradition that involves being separated from your fiancee for (I haven't decided the time yet) and what happens when the bride-to-be falls in love with the groom's best friend...

I still haven't figured out why I write romance...I hate the whole concept...

Hi MaryLynn,

I'm not on this site very often, but if you send me a message or comment, it goes to my email :) Tell me more about what you're writing...

Thanks for friending me.  You're going to love being here. We are a very supportive group! :)