Sorry, I haven’t been around much. Was pretty sick last week, most of the week. Then Friday my agent and I chit-chatted via phone and came up with a game plan. She wants me to write some historicals to submit, to which I’ve gotten right to doing. Tell ya what, it was hard at first because I had to re-route my brain and think mid-1800′s. It’s getting easier now. It’s not like I’ve never written in this time period. Albeit it was like when I was in my early 20′s.
Found out this week I didn’t get the ACFW conference scholarship. Rats. So, brought it up with hubby, and that didn’t go over too well. His solution to my wanting to go was, he’d cover the travel and petty cash expense, I had to find a means to pay for the conference registration fees. (I’ll be bunking with my CP who lives outside of Denver, so no hotel fees to pay for.) To tell ya the truth that didn’t go over too well for me. But I’m like major PMSing, so nothing goes over well at this time. Luckily, said CP calls me that night and we chat and she gets me all calmed down and coming up with some options. And today, I may have found them, as long as they pay. Trying to figure that out. Might have to call the employer posting the jobs to be sure.
If they do pay, it works perfectly for me, as they’re substituting jobs at a local school. I’d work when they’d need me, during school hours while my kiddos are at school, and leaves me with plenty of time to write and be home if needs be. And if a new coaching opportunity pops up, it gives me the time to do that too. I’m really balking at going to work full-time, or even part time, cause financially it doesn’t make sense when my husband’s job is military and he could deploy again, and my children are still too young to be left without supervision, of which someone would have to pay for. I’m leaving this all up to God on this one. He’s the orchestrator of all this and if I need to work, He’ll provide the means.
Which leads me to my huge impatience at not being published yet when there are so many indicators out there that I should be. In this business you need to create a thick skin. Problem is, some times you get a thick head too. I’m not the most laid back person in the world and my pursuit of publication has been a 12 year process, of which the last 4 have been my best years so far. I know it’s all in God’s timing, and things have popped up to put me out there, but I’d really love to see my books in people’s hands reading whatever it was God laid on my heart at the time I wrote that book. I have no doubt this a learning process for me, and I’m not ready to take that final step, cause God only knows when I will be.
So that’s it in a nutshell for now. Better get back to that historical.
Adios!








