Did you miss me?
I just looked at my blog and gee whiz it's been over a month--BEFORE Christimas--since I blogged. Inexcusable. Humblest apology to the couple of people who keep up with this. :)
Let's see...what's been going on? Well, not much actually. Deadlines, kids, Rusty, I have been blogging once a week on Faithchicks.com, but I don't think anyone reads me there except those of you who read me here, so not sure that's going to be something I'll keep doing.
I'm starting radio interviews now to promote Leave it to Claire. My first one aired today. I sounded really retarded, and I hope I get better at this! Was contacted by another radio station today, so I will be doing another one soon.
God is giving me great favor with buyers and CLAIRE is getting a lot of buzz. I feel a little bad that Claire is the bookclub book for ACFW bookclub's second month though. I had no idea the bookclub would get so much buzz or I would have put someone else in that spot. Looks kind of bad for the President of the organization to get her book in the second month. I mean, I didn't put it there, but I did OFFER. :) WHo knew so many people would read about us and join?
But I AM looking forward to it and to chatting with readers in March.
I'm finishing up I LOVE CLAIRE Book Three in the CLAIRE EVERETT series as we speak. Deadline is Jan 30. I thought it was the 31, and planned for that, so I might have to turn it in that day. I'm shooting for Monday though! Crit partners are sparse for this one. I had too much going on and couldn't write at the pace where it's reasonable to expect critiques. All my best friends and crit partners are rushing to their own deadlines or are swamped with life. So I'm nervous about that. This is my first time working with my new editor. Someone I highly admire and really want to impress. :) So I'm on my own. And I'm afraid I'm not going to meet her expectations. That's the problem when all your friends become famous, busy authors. :) They're crits go down the tube. So fair warning those of you in critique groups with friends who are at the same level. You'll all move forward close together and then one day you'll have no critique partners, but you WILL have sisters of the heart and that's SO much more important.
Steve (Laube) talks about how writers get in this abyss close to deadline and how they're completely alone. Only I've never felt that before. Oh, the abyss yeah, but my friends have always been in the abyss with me. :) Ok, I'll get over it. but I might be in the market for a new critique group. LOL not really. I'm just hoping they'll all read this and feel really bad and sorry for me. SNICKER.
So, I've been on a liquid diet the last week. Something I have to do for surgery in a week (More about that at a later date). I've lost 11 lbs!!!! And I still have another week of it. I was going to say, "my undies are getting loose" but I didn't want to offend anyone so I deleted it. :)
Well, off to write while I watch American Idol. Just saw a really sweet girl, Kelly Pickler audition. What a darling. I hope she makes it top 12.
Until next time. Tracey (from the Abyss) Bateman
Let's see...what's been going on? Well, not much actually. Deadlines, kids, Rusty, I have been blogging once a week on Faithchicks.com, but I don't think anyone reads me there except those of you who read me here, so not sure that's going to be something I'll keep doing.
I'm starting radio interviews now to promote Leave it to Claire. My first one aired today. I sounded really retarded, and I hope I get better at this! Was contacted by another radio station today, so I will be doing another one soon.
God is giving me great favor with buyers and CLAIRE is getting a lot of buzz. I feel a little bad that Claire is the bookclub book for ACFW bookclub's second month though. I had no idea the bookclub would get so much buzz or I would have put someone else in that spot. Looks kind of bad for the President of the organization to get her book in the second month. I mean, I didn't put it there, but I did OFFER. :) WHo knew so many people would read about us and join?
But I AM looking forward to it and to chatting with readers in March.
I'm finishing up I LOVE CLAIRE Book Three in the CLAIRE EVERETT series as we speak. Deadline is Jan 30. I thought it was the 31, and planned for that, so I might have to turn it in that day. I'm shooting for Monday though! Crit partners are sparse for this one. I had too much going on and couldn't write at the pace where it's reasonable to expect critiques. All my best friends and crit partners are rushing to their own deadlines or are swamped with life. So I'm nervous about that. This is my first time working with my new editor. Someone I highly admire and really want to impress. :) So I'm on my own. And I'm afraid I'm not going to meet her expectations. That's the problem when all your friends become famous, busy authors. :) They're crits go down the tube. So fair warning those of you in critique groups with friends who are at the same level. You'll all move forward close together and then one day you'll have no critique partners, but you WILL have sisters of the heart and that's SO much more important.
Steve (Laube) talks about how writers get in this abyss close to deadline and how they're completely alone. Only I've never felt that before. Oh, the abyss yeah, but my friends have always been in the abyss with me. :) Ok, I'll get over it. but I might be in the market for a new critique group. LOL not really. I'm just hoping they'll all read this and feel really bad and sorry for me. SNICKER.
So, I've been on a liquid diet the last week. Something I have to do for surgery in a week (More about that at a later date). I've lost 11 lbs!!!! And I still have another week of it. I was going to say, "my undies are getting loose" but I didn't want to offend anyone so I deleted it. :)
Well, off to write while I watch American Idol. Just saw a really sweet girl, Kelly Pickler audition. What a darling. I hope she makes it top 12.
Until next time. Tracey (from the Abyss) Bateman
posted by Tracey Bateman at 6:40 PM
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