katywriter

2012 is going to be my year of reading the books I have in my TBR pile before I buy new ones. I have no more room for books. My husband and I have a bookshelf in our bedroom that is so overflowing with books that I had to stack books on top of each other to fit them. I also have three different piles of TBR books. We also have a bookshelf at our other house( don't ask) filled with books and books downstairs in the basement. Although, we've read all the ones at the other house and the ones in the basement are old ones that we just want to keep for memories sake. I'm also going to keep track of the books I read each month on here.

January
The Laughing Corpse- Laurell K. Hamilton
Ruthless-Sara Shepard









Reading :How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire- Kerryelyn Sparks

Meet Lauren Bailey. My main character in my novel. I've uploaded this photo to the Kindle Direct Publishing and now have to get back to fine tuning. What does everyone think?

 I've finished the first three chapters of  my WIP, so I've now uploaded them onto http://www.scribd.com/  for more feedback. Go check it out!

 I posted this into bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php and it said I write like a girl. What do you think??

"James, I can't do this anymore. It's over." Jennifer stood up, leaving her uneaten dinner and grabbed her coat, struggling to put her arms through it. "Wait, you can't just leave. Not after saying something like that. There is a reason for this "freak out" and I want to know what it is." I insist. Jennifer stops, arm mid sleeve and sighs. She sits back down at the table, but doesn't take her arm out of the sleeve. "I promise you that you don't want to hear what I'm about to say. I know you." I bite my lip, it sounds bad. Jennifer takes a deep breath and begins to speak. "I've met someone else. His name is Connor, he just transferred from Georgia or some place in the south. " I try not and smile at that comment, but I can't help it. Jennifer never really was good at geography. "James, are you listening?" I turn back to the conversation at the table. "Yeah, I sigh, "I'm listening." "We've been together three years and that's already more time than the typical relationship at our age. It's unhealthy to be with someone that long." "Instead of going to parties on weekends, we spend time in your bedroom watching movies. I want to do something for once." "Well, you never complained about that before." I smirked. "Well, that was when we were doing something other than watching movies. You used to be fun." She sighed. "I've really got to go. Connor's waiting for me." her voice caught at the end. I watched her walk away.

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jacksonpearce rox!

1. Taxes are done. Woohoo! Hubs and I are getting $ back again this year, thank goodness!!!

2. I haven't had a "meltdown" at work lately. They're just embarrassing for everyone.

3.My loving hubby. Without him, I don't think I'd survive. Not physically, but everything else. He's my rock.

4. It's 67* and sunny today. Motorcycle time!

5. I have tomorrow off from work :)




Reading : Vampire Beach1 by Alex Duval

1. Woohoo! The hubby is GOING BACK TO SCHOOL in the fall!!!!! We've been back in PA for almost 2 years now and we can finally breathe easy and begin to save to leave his parents house and just live with our two spoiled cats. He'll be going back to school and I'll be working 34.5 hrs a week, so life will finally seem normal again :)

2. Bro in law's gf  still isn't done with edits, but I'm trying to be patient. I'm just really itching to work on it, so I can publish it! I asked the question of self publish versus publisher and I think I'm going to go with self publish.  I know someone who self published one novel and now she has a publishing contract for two more novels with another publisher. I think you just have to be smart about self publishing before you jump into it.

3. Vampire Diaries is new tonight!!!! I haven't watched it over two months, but I'm excited to see whats going on with Stefan, Damon and Elena. My mother in law bought the Vampire Diaries :Orgins/Bloodlust and I still have to read those though.

4. My cousin is getting married tomorrow in Aruba! She's a few years older than me, 32 this year while I just turned 30, but we were pretty close growing up. I really wish that I had the money to go see her get married. I'm sure she'll make a beautiful bride, I can't wait for pictures.

Reading: Shadowland by Alyson Noel

By now, if you've read this blog in the last month you know that I'm waiting for edits, so I can tackle a rewrite and publish my novel. I was all set to self publish to Kindle, when I started wondering if a publisher would be a better route. I had sent an old ms out and got a rejection, but the publisher had seemed positive and told me to rewrite and resubmit. And that's my next project. For now, I was wondering if I should submit  WKRC to them instead?

Which is better, epublisher or self-publish on Kindle, I'm taking votes.