Playing Around: Rough Book Covers for my Novel...

See what happens when you have writer's block? You play with pictures... =) If I ever get published, I won't really have any say with cover art so I figured I could play with it now...









The first one is actually from Fernanda Brussi's portfolio (the cover artist for Lauren Kate's Fallen). Now, when I get published I hope I have a dazzling cover artist that will do 100x better than these... but after seeing quite a few books with mediocre covers, I wonder if many authors are disappointed with their cover art when they see it. Hmmm. Wouldn't that suck? You pour your heart into a book and then have no say how it looks in the end? Oh well. I guess that is how it works. It's fun to hear when publishers let authors actually be involved in the creative design process... Know some amazing cover artists? Know of a fun cover art/author story?

Word Count

38,500ish words... and no, I haven't read my new books yet. Err, I still have to make it to 42,000 words before I can read Crescendo or Torment. They stare at me from my book shelf. I did buy more... which simply seems cruel since I won't let myself read them.... 42,000 words here I come!!

Book Trailer for my Paranormal Romance Novel!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOQNeFYWG4 Check it out :) 

Word Count Wednesday

I have done some writing and as of right now I have 36,581 words. I have 5,419 words to go until I make my first challenge. I think the key here is to actually get up after I go to bed and just write. No distractions. Peace and Quiet. I'll do that this week and see how much I get done.

Progress...er, not so much.

Okay, I have to be honest. Pages written? 0. Words written? 0. Someone slap me? Oh wait, my sister already did that. Okay. 7,500 words before I can read my books that are NOW on the way. They are going to taunt me with their fabulously designed book covers. Got to get to work!

Woke up and wrote some...

I didn't write anything all day and my characters were ticked off at me. Nagging buggers. I ignored them all day as I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, job searching, yapping away, mothering, and finally when I was snuggling down in my covers ready for sleep, sleep did not come. Nope. My characters wouldn't stop whining, "Write you lazy ol' woman! Novelists, write! And you have to write about me, me, me!" Grr. And yet, how I love them. They dragged me out of bed and got me writing (about them of course) and before the clock struck 12 and my carriage turned into a pumpkin, I actually wrote 1,000 words. Woohoo. 6,500 words to go to get to my first challenge of 42,000 words before the end of October.

1st post about my Novel... Let me give you the 411 ;)

Hello, ladies and gentlemen! Well I wanted to write out the stats of my novel thus far for public record (and so I remember... a year of sleepless nights with a baby does a number on your memory;)
So here goes:
Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy
Title: Blood and Tears
Today it is weighing in at 125 pages. Roughly 32,000 words. The *Goal* is around 65,000 words. Seems like forever away, but I'll get there with time and who knows when the novel will actually decide to be done. 50,000 words? 115,000 words? Who knows. We'll see. Well there you have it! My novel in a nutshell.