Time Will Tell.

It's been a while since I've added to my blog. George is in ICU with many problems. The doctors are unsure if he will recover or not. Sitting in the ICU waiting room can be trying on the nerves and right now my nerves are fried. Yesterday when he was taken to the ER, daughter, Laura and son-in-law Brian sat with me all day and into the night. I got home and took a nice warm bath and 2 Tylonal and slept pretty good the rest of the night. Laura and I went back to the hospital after lunch today. Daughter-in-law Kim, grandson Danny and his wife Lauren and baby girl Sawyer came up for a few hours. It was good for me to see Sawyer now 8 months old and just a beautiful blue eyed darling. It takes a healthy baby to take your mind off the tough things in life.
So we are having to make some hard decisions. All the 'what if's'. What if he doesn't make it? What if he does and how much care he will need later? The list could go on and on and we had a small family discussion today to try to cover some of these 'what if's'.
Well blogger's I'm tired so I think I'll pop some corn and watch an old movie with my faithful dog Jake.

Holy rain showers! Yes, it's been raining for days. We must be making up for the fact that we had almost no snow this past winter, therefore the water table must surely be low.

Again today I heard from 'my publisher'. He wants to get my book out later this summer hoping to capitalize on the upswing that characteristically comes in the fall for book buyers. YES! YES! That's exactly what I was hoping for too. See we are of one mind. Let's get it out there for those book buyers.

I'm confident that with God's help my husband, George, will be well so I can do some book signings and perhaps attend those wonderful Red Hat conventions. That's where all those Red Hat Ladies hang out.

My Publisher !

Dear Bloggers,
I'm happy to say I heard from the publisher and he said he is ready to publish my book. So now I guess I should call him 'my publisher'. At any rate on May 20, 2010 I received an e-mail from him saying he is looking at publishing it. Of course he said there is some work to do on it (typos, punctuation, etc.) well of course there is. I'm the first to admit that my punctuation skills are the worst. But the good news is his intent is to leave the storyline as it is. Hoorah!!!
Of course things never go well, now do they? My husband, George, is in the hospital. He had surgery on Wednesday and now his heart is acting up. I guess it's never a good time for surgery and you can't always plan things. So I will just go with the flow, spending time at the hospital and when the publisher calls I'll be ready.

Who reads blogs anyway?

Who reads blogs anyway? That is the question. I've been reading some and I'm not sure if the bloggers know I'm reading them, after all I didn't write them a note. I'm not sure is any one reads my blog since no one ever leaves me a message. So perhaps this is just a way for us bloggers to practice our writing or blogging. It's getting late and I'm not really in the mood for blogging so I'll quit because I don't have anything to say.

Mother's Day

Its Mother's Day and I had a very nice day. My mother is 96 years old. She is a beautiful lady, I don't get to see her very often since she lives in California. She has a house full of people there all the time. The last time I visited I had to sleep on a mattress on the floor in the living room. It was comfortable so I really can't complain and I'm not. My sister, Jane lives with Mom and takes really good care of her. Mom is an avid reader, I sent her 2 books for Mother's Day and I'm sure by not whe has finished both of them and is looking for more. I'm sure that is the reason her mind is still so sharp. What a blessing to have a Mother that is full of life at 96 year of age. Yes, I am truely blessed.

Happy Mother's Day to any one that happens to stumble on my little blog and reads it.

No news is maybe good news.

Two weeks have past and I did not hear from the agent I sent my manuscript to. Sooo, I guess that means she wasn't interested.
I know, all the famous writers say they got hundreds of rejections before they got published. I only wish she would have sent me a rejection slip so I could put it up on my wall. It would give me something to look at and get mad about, then maybe I would get angry enough to sit down and write again.
Who is to say that at this time in my life it is better that I don't get published with a big New York publisher. I'd have to fly around the country making guest appearances on TV shows. It could be very tireing. Has any one stumbled onto my blog? I'd love to hear from you. Or am I just talking to my self?

Restless in Cheney

Yes, I'm restless here in Cheney. I've written a novel, THE HAT PIN MURDERS, A RED HAT MYSTERY. I've had it critiqued several times and had it pretty well ready for publishing. I gave it to a local publisher and I'm waiting, waiting, waiting for a response from him. When I met with him about 2 1/2 months ago he seemed pretty enthusiastic. He liked the idea and he really liked my marketing plan. Great! He said he had at least 20 others in front of me and he would get back to me in a couple weeks. I contacted him again to ask how it was going and was he interested in my book. He responded quickly that he hadn't gotten around it looking at it but would in a couple weeks. So I decided to sent it to an agent. I had considered this agent a year or two ago but wasn't quite ready to get it out there. The agent is on the west coast, in fact in Washington. I immediately got an e-mail back that my query had been received and they would respond with in 2 weeks if they would like to represent me.

Yes, I'm restless in Cheney. Waiting for someone to let me know what they think about my book. After all I worked on it for 5 plus years. Will I ever get it published? Wait and see. Mean while I starting on ANOTHER RED HAT MYSTERY.