Book Update

Alright well I've sent my manuscript off to DAW publishing. I enclosed a stamped postcard so they can at least tell me when they've received it. So far no news back but I could have a good three months before they get to it... which is slightly discouraging, but I'll just use that time to look for other publishers to send it to. DAW has this weird rule that if you send your manuscript to them then you can't send it to anyone else so I have to wait for a bit before I can send it off to any other publishers. Anyway, I've already plotted out the second book in the series, which looks like it will be much longer than the first (the first came to a grand total of 240 pages by the way) so I can't wait to start writing that one. I am, however, a bit engulfed in another project that I just happened to come up with in the airport in California on my way back to Utah from dad's house... and most everyone in my life will be in this book but with different names... that's right Maddie, you make your big entrance within the first five pages :) So I think I have to get this story out of my system before I can go back to the second book in Robin's series. So there you have it. My overactive imagination will forever be running my life. Wish me luck with that! The end.

Here's a picture of a book cover I made just for fun. The actual photo isn't mine, I just put the text over it :) I thought it went nicely with the story.

My Book!

Well it's official. I've finished writing my first novel. It took me forever, which is sad since most writers can whip out three books a year (or more) and this one took me about seven years. In my defense, I hadn't been working on it seriously until last month. The funny thing is it took me 7 years to finish the first half and one month to finish the second half... that shows you what a little dedication will do. So I've gone through the whole thing and edited (the first half needed some major reworking since I wrote some of that back in my freshman year of high school) and now my mom is editing it again. She's up to page 70 so not too far to go. I know of a publishing company that is accepting manuscripts from new authors and their main focus is young adult fiction (which just happens to be what my book is). So I'm pretty excited to send it to them... though they did say it could take 3 months to even get to the point where they read it but I'm not too concerned. I've waited 7 years I can wait a few more months. I know it's really hard to get published so I don't expect too much, but there is this binding company down in Lindon so if all else fails I can at least get my book in book form. Either way, I'm very excited and if it ever does get published I hope everyone will go get a copy :)
~Shannen