Heather B. Moore's Blog, page 24

Quick Time Out

First, thanks to Carroll Morris who reviewed Alma on her blog, Crusty Old Ladies. You may know Carroll from her best-selling series, Almost Sisters, that she co-writes with Lael Littke and Nancy Anderson. I actually reviewed on of their books, Surprise Packages, here. Thanks, Carroll!

Also, I'm finalizing Alma the Younger. I'm about 250 pages into the revision. The book right now is about 340 pages. There might be a scene or two to add, but it will top out around 90,000 words. Then onto the re...

Burnt Cookies & 85K

My advice, don't bake and write at the same time.
These lovely black cookies were snickerdoodles in dough form. My 5 year old loves to bake cookies with me on Sunday, but yesterday one thing after another cropped up and we didn't get around to it. So this morning we decided to make a batch of snickerdoodles. My daughter loves to mix the cookies until her hand gets tired, then it's "Mom's turn."
So it's her job to tell me when the buzzer is ringing. Unless I'm in the kitchen I rarely hear the...

Whitney Nominations and 2 more reviews

Thanks to Cheri Chesley, aspiring writer, for her review of Alma here. She read Alma first, then Abinadi (as I saw on GoodReads). So it can be done :)

Also, thanks to author Tristi Pinkston, who also reviewed Alma here. I've really enjoyed all of Tristi's books and you can see my review of her mystery, Agent in Old Lace, here.

Okay, so I read a lot of books, and I review quite a few. Mostly I just rate them on GoodReads. It's been a very handy tool to find out what my "friends" are reading and ...

NEW BOOK & More reviews

This past week, I received some author copies of All Is Bright--a new Christmas compilation. The final version has a small change. I was thinking I might actually be published under my "real" name--Heather Moore, but nope, the final has H.B. Moore. Oh well :-) I've read through most of the Christmas stories and have really enjoyed them. The best part is that the book retails for just a few dollars and will make a great neighbor gift (ready, neighbors?).
Update on Alma the Younger: I haven't ...

Two Books for Kids (and you too) & More Blog Tour

Thanks to Kami for reviewing Alma on her blog: A View Thru Many Lenses. She has been a faithful reader :) And she uses her blog to "scrapbook" memories for her kids. Brilliant idea.


Also, Taffy reviewed Alma on her blog: Taffy's Candy (what else would she name her blog?) She is an aspiring writer and posts her WIP word count on the side bar, so it's fun to see it increase. She is also a librarian and I love to talk books with her!


Speaking of books, I read a lot. I admit it. I certainly don't a...

ALMA Blog Tour & Updates

This past weekend I signed at the Redwood Seagull Book in Salt Lake. It's always an exciting time to do a booksigning because people come from all over the world to SLC during General Conference. One thing on their to-do list is to shop for the newest LDS materials.

I signed books for a couple of long-time readers, and also a gentleman from Canada and another from England. So Alma will be doing some traveling.

This past week, I also had the opportunity to read an advance copy of David West's up...

ALMA Blog Tour & Booksignings

A busy week! I'm a little behind my word count goal--I wrote 4,000 words in Alma the Younger, and my goal was 5,000. One of the reasons is because I had to prepare a presentation for the Book Academy Conference at UVU. I blogged about the keynote speaker, Brandon Sanderson, here. I can't wait to read his newest book, Warbreaker. Any Brandon Sanderson fans out there?

So I took my first Alma the Younger chapter to my critique group. It's a chapter that might be a forward prologue (kind of what I...

ALMA Blog Tour & 2009 LUW Conference

The drive to the League of Utah Writers conference in Midway, Utah was worth all preparation. The fall colors are just starting to hit throughout the canyon. The best thing about writers conferences is reuniting with friends and finding out what they are up to. This conference is the first one I attended as an aspiring writer in 2002. So it's really cool to return 7 years later with 6 books published.

I taught a couple of workshops on Saturday (which I'll highlight on my editing blog), and I l...

ALMA Blog Tour

This week three more reviews have come in.

Thanks to Mary Campbell of the Literary Girls Writing Group, who posted a review of Alma . It's a fun blog to peruse because the contributors talk about books! Which I love in all shapes and sizes, of course. Just this week I've read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, and started reading The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale (which is completely zany so far!).

Also, Jen posted her review as well--otherwise known as JenHeadJen. (What's the story beh...

Alma the Younger and other updates

I have a cold, so I'm glad that no one can hear me speak :) Today I bought a variety of remedies, hoping something will stem the tide.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I started writing Alma the Younger, the sequel to Alma (of course!)

I took a chapter to my critique group. It's one the first chapters of Alma the Younger (probably chapter 2). In the chapter I have Alma and two of the sons of Mosiah on a hunting trip. The problem is, all of their names start with an A: Alma, Ammon, Aaron. It gets confusi...