It Never Ends-

Closure on one story only opens up the possiblities of several more!

I had a successful week last week. It felt so good to stay in the creative mode and write every day. And it worked. My second contemporary western is finished. Now, I await the last chapters back from my CP to see where I might nave dropped the ball. I'm reading back through another time cleaning up, reorganizing sentences, then I'll send it to a beta reader. When it gets back from there, I'll check anything she targeted, then read through one more time to make sure it sparkles then send the full to the editor who requested.

This book couldn't have happened without a lot of help from many people. I'm making a list and they will all be acknowledged in the front of the book when it's puboished. I've been to several rodeos in my day, but I'm not a huge fan of watching horses and bulls slam men against fences, or men getting stepped on or kicked. But I do like watching the barrel racing. And roping is ho-hum for me. So getting other people's views on what goes on behind the arena was fascinating! There's a rodeo coming here this month and I'm going to try and drag my dh to it. Just to keep an eye on the behind the scenes stuff.

As soon as this book gets off to the beta reader I'll jump back into the Historical western that has been calling to me and an agent is waiting for.

I also have book thongs to get made for my book signing next month. At book signings I always give a book thong I've made that relates to the book with each signed book. This time I found a cute cowgirl holding a pistol charm that I'm putting on one end and I have beads the color of the cover on the other end.

How busy is your week looking?

Another Monday

I haven't had any "aha"moments over this blog, so you're going to get some ramblings.

I managed to knock out 4500 words on the WIP over the weekend. Well.... Friday and Saturday. I'm having a blast at the moment because my hero is in a sticky situation. He wants land from the heroine to build a stamp mill. The corner of her property is the only place close enough to his mine and with the right terrain and water supply to work. She doesn't want to sell. So he made her a deal to be able to use the mill without paying a percentage to him and his brothers. Then she needed tracks to get her ore there, he conceded, then she needed ore carts to get her ore there, again he conceded, then she found out the mill would be placed in the area of the creek where she and her children bathe. So he can't build the stamp mill unless he brings her a bath tub. The long kind that you can stretch your legs out.

So, he goes to town and finds out he has to order a bath tub. He has men coming the next day to start work and she's not going to let them work if she doesn't have a bath tub. He asks the merchant who was the last person to purchase a bath tub. It turns out to be a widow, fifteen years his senior, who has a crush on him! So right now, I'm writing the scene where he's trying to figure out how to get her bath tub without her thinking he's interested in marriage.

Am I having fun with this book? Oh yeah!

What kind of fun are you making for yourself?