I met with my publisher!

Yes, I met with my publisher on Tuesday. After the meeting I was totally exhausted. The book will be ready for release around Thanksgiving. But there are a few things that I have to do before that. I have to come up with 12 people that the publisher well send early release copies too and hope they will send back a good comment on the book. I have to write my own Bio, which I'm sure will be short and sweet. At our next meeting we will decide on a cover and oh yes, I did give him a new picture of myself to be put on the back cover.
After the book is published he will set up a release party and a number of signings at local book stores etc. I'm exhausted just thinking about that but then I think it will be fun too. He promised to do promotion with press releases to newspaper, radio and T.V. stations and print up fliers and cards that I can send out to people that I want to come see me.
It is a good thing George is getting better because I'm going to be very busy. Yes, he is doing quite well. He didn't fall this week at all. haha. Parris and Amber, Laura's girls are off to college and we won't see them until Christmas. They have been a light in our lives and George especially will miss them.
Well, I hope that is enough of an update for tonight. Good night to all you bloggers out there in cyber land.

It's never too late to dream.

I have a meeting with my publisher at Gray Dog Press on Tuesday to go over the details of my novel, THE HAT PIN MURDERS. I can't wait to see what he has in mind for the cover. I imagine a hat pin dripping blood at least for starters. Perhaps a broken stran of pearls and some feathers lying about.
My daughter came over Wednesday and took dozens of pictures of me, not too many turned out good. I was hoping to have at least one good one for the back cover. There are so many things to consider and since I've never done this before I'm only dreaming so far.
It's hard to believe at my age to be starting on a new career. I guess it's never too late to have your dreams come true. So if you still have a dream and thnk it is only a dream you might reconsider. I believe God is the Dream Giver and if you believe and work at it hard enough He will make your dream come true.

It's Tuesday !

Yes, It's Tuesday! Robert went to the store this morning and bought ice cream. Last night we were all out and do you know what a miserable feeling it is to be out of ice cream? Ofcourse I could loose a few pounds if I didn't eat it but then what is life with out those wonderful goodies. My favorite is ice cream, any flavor, with carmel syrup and chopped nuts, lots of nuts or 3 scoops in a glass with just enough milk to make it slushy. How silly is this going on about ice cream.

I'm killing time waiting for my publisher to get back to me. I want to call him and ask what is the hold up, but I know he is busy and I don't want to be pushy. Mean while I'm starting on ANOTHER RED HAT MYSTERY not sure where I'm going with it. But I feel like I'm off to a good start. The fun thing about writing is that you can make up people that you really like and then you can make up people that you hate, those are the ones that make the mystery come alive. I have a very uncontrollable dog, he is a little brat! In my book, he is a Great Dane, protective of his mistress and the dog everyone would love to have. Oh if real life could be what we write about, I'd write a perfect life, no mystery at all.

I'm excited !

I'm so excited! I actually have followers. People that read my blog. Well there is nothing too exciting for you to read but since I love to write that's what a blog is for. So I'll keep you informed on what happened today. George is now using a cane instead of a walker, which should be a good thing, but he is getting a little too cocky. Today he went outside and slipped in some gravel and fell down. He called me and thank goodness I heard him and went out side to look for him. There he was all skinned up and bleeding all over his arm. He couldn't get up and of course I couldn't get him up so I called 911 and the whole fire department came encluding a police car. The firemen, 4 of them, got him up cleaned him up and put bandages on him and took his vitals. They wanted him to go to the clinic to have a doctor look at him so they were o.k. with me driving him there. One of the firemen followed us there after calling ahead to let them know we were coming. I pulled right up to the back door and the fireman went inside and go a wheel chair, came out and got George out of the car and wheeled him inside, told the doctor what happened and left us to get taken care of. With that George said he will leave the yard work to someone else and forget about it. Thank goodness he didn't break anything.

August 2010

Here it is August already. I feel like the year has just begun, where does the time go. George graduated to a cane yesterday. Everyday he makes a little more progress. I went to the doctor yesterday because my hip has been killing me. He took an x-ray and assured me that I still have plenty of bone there and it will be a long time before I need a hip replacement. So that made me feel better but I'm still having a lot of pain when I walk. He said I probably pulled something so I will be going to physical theropy for 6 weeks. Oh boy! Thats about it for now.