Time for Links!

If you've not been by the The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog, go check them out, and not just because they did a "Five Questions" thing with me (no, really! *laugh*), but because they are chock-a-full of gooey goodness. They also are reviewing SWEETIE and that will be up in a few days. They are on Facebook, and twitter, too.

Deborah Riley-Magnus has had a series of posts about "Author Success - A Well-Planned Future" - I need to catch up on them, but I've been reading many of them and find them interesting and informative, even if I don't follow all the advice, there is something for everyone I think.


For those of you doing the Nanowrimo, the beautiful and brilliant Alexandra Sokoloff has some advice: Nanowrimo: Creating Character.

I've been reading on Behler Blog, a publisher who gives some advice on querying and et cetera and has a cute little beagle that likes margueritas :-D

Also, Bellebooks exploded with manuscripts after opening their doors to more lit fiction, and they received other submissions as well, of course, for genre fiction, et cetera. They had a great year last year and hope this trend continues. They're even having to close submits until probably March or so. This is a good thing for BB and for their authors, too, (although it means if you were interested in submitting you will have to hold off a little while). Any business, publishing/book business, that is growing right now is doing something right. So, congrats and yayyys to my wonderful Bellebooks!

That's all I have right now. Hope you'll go by Five Questions at the Best Damn Creative Writing Blog - and while there, take a look around.

And remember, two weeks of living Here and Now and Enjoying What We Have Right Now (below).

Catching up, more photos of little one, and who is doing NANOWRIMO?

GMR's sis and friend left this morning. So now I must catch up!

Catch up on Secret Graces manuscript.

Catch up on emails.

Catch up on the Rose & Thorn Journal (if you haven't been by, go take a peek and let us know what you think).

And catch up to do on how I was posting about my Louisiana Book Festival trip to Baton Rouge.

And of course, looking at bunches of Norah Kathryn's photos! I can't wait until my trip to Oregon to see her, and Daniel and Sarah. December can't come soon enough.

So, while I am catching up, I leave you with a few more photos(above), and I will return to my regularly scheduled posts tomorrow *smiling*

I wonder - what do you need to catch up on? Do you have deadlines looming that have you a bit nervous? Or are you smoooothhing your way to deadlines or accomplishments?

Also, any of you doing Nanowrimo? I've never done it, but I have written a novel in 30 days a few years ago - it was the coolest thing ever! I had no limits, no boundaries; I just wrote for the joy of writing. I am curious to see who out there is doing NANO and where you are in your word count... GO GO GO!!! Tell me how you are doing!