I have completed my first pass at editing 'Collide'! Wow! I feel like I have accomplished so much in doing that! There is a huge weight that is lifted! I still love my story! I LOVE my characters and I LOVE that I have written a book! It might not change literature...but it has changed my life.
We all have goals! Most of us make new ones every year...we call them resolutions, but they are goals just the same. Mine have been the same for so long...LOSE weight! WRITE a novel! I might not have gotten a handle on the 'weight' issue...but I have written a novel. And now I have a publisher! And next year my goals will be slightly different! I will promise to eat better, exercise more and lose some more weight...but then I will also have a new goal...complete the sequel to Collide! For my wonderful friends that have read my book...and all have asked...WHERE IS THE SEQUEL??? That is my goal for next year...to write the sequel and have it published. It's crazy how good it feels to have done this!
I could NOT have done it without so many supportive wonderful women in my life! First there is my mom. She read Collide almost two years ago and didn't hate it! She is a voracious reader and she enjoyed it! It's not going to win a Pulitzer, but I DO hear the pride in her voice when she tells me that she shared this fact with someone else. No matter how old you are, no matter what you do in your life, your parents approval is always the one thing that will carry the most weight for you.
I have a long list of friends, good girl friends, who have read my book. You have shaped the story, you have helped develop the characters, and most importantly you have supported my dream. You know that when it's published we will have one hell of a release party...and I promise your name will be in print. But, for now, please know how much I love and appreciate your support!
Well, now it's time to go through these chapters a couple more times...and iron out a few mistakes, a few grammar issues and change some names. I look forward to this next step almost as much as I looked forward to writing the story initially. It's taking shape. It's coming together!
Stay tuned...the best is yet to come...on my journey to being a published author!
Thanks for stopping by!
xoxo
~kim
Monday, August 6, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Moving onward and upward!
We are finally moved in! I just hate the whole process of moving! It's long! It's hot...cause we seem to always move in the summer and we live in Texas! And I hated doing it as a kid and I hate it even more as an adult.
Everything is off schedule because nothing is where you expect it to be! And now, two weeks later we are settling in!
It's totally hampered my book editing! I feel like I need to spend every moment I can unpacking and organizing! Not to mention my full time job...and then all the other normal duties - carpool, grocery shopping, etc! Who ever thinks that being an adult is so wonderful...hasn't been an adult very long! It's hard work! Balancing...juggling...trying to figure it all out!
I must admit, I am enjoying the editing process! It helps that my publisher is fantastic and is working right a long side me! He's actually ahead of me now...like I said the move really hampered my editing. But, I was able to get about 66 pages done today! Woo Hoo! YAY me!
And then I started working on my laptop...which needed to have an update downloaded and that took forever! It is honestly...always one thing or another! But, through this editing process I am reading the book again and I must say, for a debut novel, it's actually pretty good! I see some inconsistencies and I found a few pretty major ones today! That is going to make me really think about how I want it to go...I can't believe I did that! In the beginning I took this one relationship one way...but then a few chapters later, I changed all that!
So that will be my work tomorrow night! I will have to figure out which way their relationship should go and what makes most sense! I have already started a sequel and this particular relationship is one of the key ones...so getting it wrong..going to the wrong way, could ruin that! Decisions, Decisions!
Regardless, I'm a sucker for a happy ending...but I don't always believe that the best ending, is always the happiest! So I find myself torn on what to do! Better make a decision soon...time to get this editing done so we can start getting it published! Still freaks me out to think that this Fall my book, Collide, will be available for review, purchase and criticism!
I hope you will keep up with me and what happens next!
Happy Reading!
~kim
Everything is off schedule because nothing is where you expect it to be! And now, two weeks later we are settling in!
It's totally hampered my book editing! I feel like I need to spend every moment I can unpacking and organizing! Not to mention my full time job...and then all the other normal duties - carpool, grocery shopping, etc! Who ever thinks that being an adult is so wonderful...hasn't been an adult very long! It's hard work! Balancing...juggling...trying to figure it all out!
I must admit, I am enjoying the editing process! It helps that my publisher is fantastic and is working right a long side me! He's actually ahead of me now...like I said the move really hampered my editing. But, I was able to get about 66 pages done today! Woo Hoo! YAY me!
And then I started working on my laptop...which needed to have an update downloaded and that took forever! It is honestly...always one thing or another! But, through this editing process I am reading the book again and I must say, for a debut novel, it's actually pretty good! I see some inconsistencies and I found a few pretty major ones today! That is going to make me really think about how I want it to go...I can't believe I did that! In the beginning I took this one relationship one way...but then a few chapters later, I changed all that!
So that will be my work tomorrow night! I will have to figure out which way their relationship should go and what makes most sense! I have already started a sequel and this particular relationship is one of the key ones...so getting it wrong..going to the wrong way, could ruin that! Decisions, Decisions!
Regardless, I'm a sucker for a happy ending...but I don't always believe that the best ending, is always the happiest! So I find myself torn on what to do! Better make a decision soon...time to get this editing done so we can start getting it published! Still freaks me out to think that this Fall my book, Collide, will be available for review, purchase and criticism!
I hope you will keep up with me and what happens next!
Happy Reading!
~kim
Saturday, June 30, 2012
And the story begins....
Hey there! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. This is the beginning of my journey to becoming a published author. I want to document this process for a couple of reasons. For starters, I want to remember exactly how it all happens. The good...the bad...the happy! I want to remember each step on the way to reaching a life long goal and dream! And secondly, I love to write! I also love to talk...thank God I can type as fast as I talk! :)
We are deep in editing now! We! I have a publisher who is working side by side with me. And we are flushing it out together! The easy part was actually getting it all down. The harder part is picking it apart in the hopes that in the end we have a GREAT story that people will connect with and love as much as I do.
How did that happen? It's a GREAT story actually! I have three kids and you find your circle of friends becoming parents of your kid's friends. Lucky for me, my kids have GREAT taste in friends and most of the time I end up really liking their parents. I was at a 7 on 7 football tournament and chatting away with Heather. We like a lot of the same authors...Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, etc. I sheepishly said...'Well, I wrote a book.' And we started talking about it. I explained what I thought the plot was...and she seemed interested. Then she said something that would change my world...'My brother in law has a small publishing house. You should send me the manuscript and I'll forward it to him'.
Some folks think I talk too much and they would be right! I do! I talk too much, tell too much, share too much...just ask my husband and kids! But, this time...it paid off! I sent it to her...and well now a month later...we are talking timelines, marketing strategy and we are editing it together!
Collide is my debut novel. I wrote it over two years ago and it has gone through all kinds of changes. For example, I originally wrote it about witches. I had just read the Twilight Saga and thought to myself, if she can do it, so can I. (No offense to Stephenie Meyer) She was a mom of three and she found the time! And then the TV Show 'The Secret Circle' came out and I saw so many similarities I was a little 'upset' I hadn't moved forward with that concept. However, it's now been cancelled! So maybe it was a good thing not to go that route.
But, my characters decided they weren't really 'witchy material'. And I wanted my first novel to be just about normal folks, with normal issues, with twists and turns...much like life. But, then I had to change my male lead character's name because it WAS Christian Hattinson....now with '50 Shades of Gray' out...had to change that! I love his name more now though...Joshua Ames Hattinson. And now, I've been watching 'Teen Wolf' on MTV and found that story is based in Beacon Hill...my town is Beacon Falls...I'm beginning to think I'm on to something! I just seem to be a few steps behind! But, now...it's all coming together!
I think I'll start telling you a bit about my book here and there...just so you can get excited about it! And you can follow me along on this journey because let's face it...it's gonna be readers like you that will hopefully buy my book and want to read more books written by me. I have lots of characters and ideas...so stay tuned! I'm sure I will also blog about my family...I've got three teenagers, two dogs and one husband! They ARE my life!
Hope you'll follow me and comment when you can!
Hold on tight...it's going to be a bumpy ride!
~k
We are deep in editing now! We! I have a publisher who is working side by side with me. And we are flushing it out together! The easy part was actually getting it all down. The harder part is picking it apart in the hopes that in the end we have a GREAT story that people will connect with and love as much as I do.
How did that happen? It's a GREAT story actually! I have three kids and you find your circle of friends becoming parents of your kid's friends. Lucky for me, my kids have GREAT taste in friends and most of the time I end up really liking their parents. I was at a 7 on 7 football tournament and chatting away with Heather. We like a lot of the same authors...Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, etc. I sheepishly said...'Well, I wrote a book.' And we started talking about it. I explained what I thought the plot was...and she seemed interested. Then she said something that would change my world...'My brother in law has a small publishing house. You should send me the manuscript and I'll forward it to him'.
Some folks think I talk too much and they would be right! I do! I talk too much, tell too much, share too much...just ask my husband and kids! But, this time...it paid off! I sent it to her...and well now a month later...we are talking timelines, marketing strategy and we are editing it together!
Collide is my debut novel. I wrote it over two years ago and it has gone through all kinds of changes. For example, I originally wrote it about witches. I had just read the Twilight Saga and thought to myself, if she can do it, so can I. (No offense to Stephenie Meyer) She was a mom of three and she found the time! And then the TV Show 'The Secret Circle' came out and I saw so many similarities I was a little 'upset' I hadn't moved forward with that concept. However, it's now been cancelled! So maybe it was a good thing not to go that route.
But, my characters decided they weren't really 'witchy material'. And I wanted my first novel to be just about normal folks, with normal issues, with twists and turns...much like life. But, then I had to change my male lead character's name because it WAS Christian Hattinson....now with '50 Shades of Gray' out...had to change that! I love his name more now though...Joshua Ames Hattinson. And now, I've been watching 'Teen Wolf' on MTV and found that story is based in Beacon Hill...my town is Beacon Falls...I'm beginning to think I'm on to something! I just seem to be a few steps behind! But, now...it's all coming together!
I think I'll start telling you a bit about my book here and there...just so you can get excited about it! And you can follow me along on this journey because let's face it...it's gonna be readers like you that will hopefully buy my book and want to read more books written by me. I have lots of characters and ideas...so stay tuned! I'm sure I will also blog about my family...I've got three teenagers, two dogs and one husband! They ARE my life!
Hope you'll follow me and comment when you can!
Hold on tight...it's going to be a bumpy ride!
~k
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