The Baby Who Saved Dr. Cynical


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Starting off the year in a writerly way

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Jan 132012
 

I turned in my final, final edits for my August book a few weeks before Christmas. So, during the holidays, I could enjoy all the hustle and bustle our family is famous for.

I promised myself time off until Jan 2.  The break was just long enough that by the day after New Years I was SO ready to write, I would have plowed through cinder blocks to get to my computer.

I’m working on adding a layer of polish to a single title story I completed right before I sold to Harlequin/Mills & Boon Medical Romance.  It requires research, lots and lots of lovely research.  And I  have learned that research librarians are worth their weight in gold. (Many thanks, Connie Ammons of Bossier Parish Library System!).

And I just turned in two story ideas for two more medical romances that I am SO excited to delve into.

All this excitement is piled on top of the release of my first ever medical romance, The Baby Who Saved Dr. Cynical.  I am going to get to sign copies at a 5K run benefit for Phelan-McDermid Syndrome on Feb 11th.  This rare medical condition is featured in the book.

Wow! Is this going to be a great year  or what?

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Writing for Harlequin / Mills & Boon

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Aug 292011
 
She writes

On Becoming a Harlequin / Mills & Boon Author

She writesI am so thrilled to be a part of the Harlequin/Mills and Boon family! It all happened because and fellow writer, Cora Zane, told me about the Medical Fast Track, an event the Great Britain branch of Harlequin/Mills and Boon offered to writers in the autumn of 2010.

The Medical Fast Track

The Medical Fast Track offered a quick turn around response to submissions, any length from a synopsis and one chapter, to a full manuscript, if the story was submitted within a specific time period. The minute Cora told me about this opportunity, the muses starting singing in my ear. One very short chapter and even shorter synopsis later, I had my idea turned into the beginning of a story and emailed off to the editors for review.

The answer was quick. Close, but not quite. The editorial, a full three single-spaced pages was almost as long as the entry and chock full of good advice. And at the very bottom of the editorial letter was an invitation to send in a new story idea. If I could get the second idea in before the Medical Fast Track even was over, I would get a quick response.

Rom(ance) Wasn’t Built in a Day

So I turned in 2 new first chapters w/ synopses. In return, I received two detailed editorial letters. If I wanted to work on either entry, the editor (at this point, I proudly started saying my editor) would be pleased to see the first three chapters. She preferred to see the entry with the smart-mouthed diagnostician first.

So, far the next nine months (yes, you read that right-9 months) I wrote and rewrote, learning enormously along the way. Then, two days before the biggest romance writers’ conference in the land–I got THE CALL. My editor wanted to by my book–and the other one I’d sent the initial chapter and synopsis for.

The Results are In

I am proud to announce that my very first Harlequin / Mills and Boon Medical Romance, titled The Baby Who Saved Dr. Cynical, will make it’s debut in the U.K. in February 2012.

Hopefully, it will be the first of many books to come for my new-found family.

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Pondering on pondering

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Jun 082011
 

This past week, I have been doing a lot of web surfing, a lot of crocheting, a lot of walking and a lot of staring out the window.

I lamented on facebook that all this pondering was killing my productivity.

I am SO GLAD I have such good facebook friends!  They were quick to remind me that pondering is part of the process.  Not just the writing process but the process of life.

When did I forget that? What part of my super-ego work ethic gorilla’d up on my philosophy of life id and convinced my most cerebral and spiritual side that doing was more worthy than being?

Are you feeling antsy?  Like you aren’t fitting into your own life no matter how many chores you cross off your to-do list? No matter how much page count you rack up? No matter how hard and fast you work?

Been there.  Done that.  Found the cure.

Just sit still and ponder.  It works wonders for me.

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