Sarah Mäkelä's Blog, page 46

The Beginning of a New Month!

This month has gotten off to a great start. I began submitting to agents with a partial request so far. Yippee! (Need to send out a few more to keep a good number out there without saturating the "agent market.") I had an epic battle with my synopsis, which I won. =) Also, it's the month of my birthday. I did some sightseeing with my family yesterday at Bok Tower in Lake Wales, FL and went to Keel & Curley winery. Keel & Curley has great wines. Yumm!

Today I'm feeling under the weather. lol Bl...

Woohoo!

Wow, it's already the end of February! This weekend has been great. I've finally finished polishing my first novel in the urban fantasy series I'm working on. It has been both a burden at times and really fun at others (brainstorming with my husband was great). I finished writing it December 2008, so it's been on my plate for a while. I'm thrilled to be able to query agents now! I spent a decent part of the day researching them more. Although, I do have a spreadsheet list set up. I sent out a...

The Wolfman

Recently, I went to the movie with my family, and we saw The Wolfman with Anthony Hopkins and Benecio Del Toro as I mentioned in a previous blog post. If I had to have one favorite paranormal creature, it would have to be the werewolf. Yummy! One of my favorite werewolf movies had to be Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Those werewolves are what I think of when I read a book with werewolves, but what was in the movie The Wolfman was definitely more related to the classic monster movies with Lon...

I've done it...

I finally signed up for a Twitter account. *takes a couple of deep breaths* Don't think I'm going to be tweeting 20 times a day, but one of the reasons why I signed up is to follow others that have insightful things to say. It also seems great to be able to relay short messages instead of having to think of a lot of things to say for a blog entry. And finally, it'll be a way to network with others, which is a goal of mine for 2010. I'll put up a Twitter button to my blog soon, so watch for it...

Into the Paranormal: Cures for Lycanthropy

Today, since I've been busy cleaning the past few days again because of my in-laws coming into town, I'm going to repost one of my favorite paranormal blogs I did at The Deadly Vixens. I remembered this post as I watched The Wolfman with Benecio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, which turned out to be different than I had expected, but still really good for what it was aiming for. But that's a blog for another day soon.

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Anyways, as I was looking at Wikipedia's entry Werewolf, I happened to s...

Character names, blogs, and workshops

With my current WIP, I've been going through a final review, which has had me filling in a couple of blanks I'd made during the initial go through, and a few of those blanks have included introducing new minor characters. , , and have been my friend the past couple of days. It's funny how when looking at one website to find a name and then the others to look up the name's meaning as well, I get multiple answers. One character's name was shown to b...

Busy, busy, busy...

Happy belated Valentine's Day! And Happy President's Day!

This past week I've been silent because there were so many things going on. Getting prepared for Valentine's Day with the hubby, which involved cleaning and gift-getting as well as watching the Winter Olympics, taking one of my kitties to the vet, etc. Anyways! Now I'm back on schedule and ready to conquer the week.

Something of interest I found this past week was a website called Hot For Words. The creator of the website, Marina Orlova,...

Just finished reading...

Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs.

I really enjoyed reading Ms. Briggs book Moon Called, the first book in the Urban Fantasy Mercy Thompson series, partly because I love werewolves. So I was looking forward to this one. In this book, she delved more into her vampires, but the werewolves were still quite present. She explores more of Mercy's powers, which as a walker just means she is able to turn into a coyote and is very fast... Or does it? A little more about her can be found in my Skinwalkers ...

Into the Paranormal: Skinwalkers

I had the idea for today's topic from the awesome book I'm currently reading, Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs. The main character, Mercedes Thompson, is a walker, which she distinguishes is different than a skinwalker since a skinwalker is an evil witch that breaks a cultural taboo to achieve the evil powers. They shapeshift into an animal by magic and wearing the animal skin. Mercedes can shapeshift into her coyote form without magic or an animal pelt, but she is not a werecoyote since she is...

It's February already!

First off, Happy Groundhog day! Every February 2nd Punxsutawney Phil comes out of his burrow to see if he can spot his shadow, and if he does see his shadow, then there is six more weeks of winter, according to folklore. If he doesn't see his shadow, then spring will come sooner. Well, not surprisingly, he saw his shadow, and with all of the wintry weather going on in the Southeast, I figured winter would continue.

It's surprising that we're already into February. It seems like not long ago we...