Tell Me Tuesday

I plan on reserving Tuesdays for writing news of all sorts on this blog. Not just my news, but yours, too. So, tell me. What are you working on? Any good news to share? Have bad news and need a hug? The road to publication is filled with hundreds of ups and downs, and so is the road that continues after we sell that first book. Let’s celebrate and commiserate together.

My Good News is that I’m finally back to work on Sex, P.I.s & Packing Tape. I read the first several chapters yesterday, and, I have to say, I like me, I really like me! (Um, I mean, it. I really like it.) Now let’s see how long I get to work on this manuscript before an editor contacts me asking me to work on something else. Packing Tape has turned into my “between projects” manuscript, but that doesn’t mean it’s not deserving and a manuscript I love for itself. I do. But I’m at the mercy of the publication game just like any other writer. And, because I write under two names, sometimes that publication game can feel like a roller-coaster and merry-go-round combined. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Everyone have a great writing day today!

Welcome to My New Website

Hi everyone! I am totally thrilled beyond belief to announced the unveiling of my new website design. Who designed it? I did. That’s why I’m totally thrilled “beyond belief.” I love web design, but it consumes me (translation: distracts me from writing).  So to finally have the new design up and (hopefully) looking great is a humongous weight off my shoulders.

I have to give a shout out to the amazing Vivian Lund of Electric Webs. I tried my best to customize the default WordPress theme to match my new web design, but the results were less than spectacular. Okay, I’ll admit it, they were disastrous. Well, maybe not that bad. I had all the elements, but know zilch about PHP and CSS, so there were all these little niggy-noggy things in my theme that shouldn’t have been there. Vivian came to my rescue and fixed the blog lickety-split. If left to me, the blog design would have taken another two centuries. So thank you, Vivian.

Please check out my news digs–and not just the blog. In fact, if you like book give-aways, I would suggest very strongly that you take a look around at the other pages. Because, in celebration of my new website, I’m holding a contest to give one lucky reader a free, autographed trade paperback copy of BORROWING ALEX. Yup, I’m generous. Can’t help it. But not so generous that I won’t make you do some work to find out how to enter the contest. 

Contest ends Friday, April 18th, so get browsing.

Oh, and if you notice something absurdly wrong with my new website (as in something isn’t working, not that you hate it), please email me.

Cindy

“Accolades Accepted, Insults Ignored.”