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Hiatus

Hi everyone! I won’t be posting goals for the next few months while I am on hiatus from structured writing. I have some big things going on in the rest of my life (to be revealed at a later date) and I need some time and space to sort through the changes and restructure how I will be working on my writing projects in the future.

Thanks for your interest and support. I’ll be back soon.

-Emily

 

Goals: July 2018

It’s already time for another goal review and reset. June was a productive month; I published Light & Shadow, Tales of Blood & Light Book Five. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, head over to Amazon to get your copy!

Let me review my goals for June:

FINISH THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY REVISION  Check! The sad news is the conclusion really needs a full rewrite, which is planned for next month. ALASKA ESSAYS  Check, ongoing. THE EIGHTH OCTAVE REVISION  Check! Got this done when I wasn’t sure it...

Happy Book Day!

Happy Book Day to Light and Shadow, a Gemini like me. You can now purchase the ebook on Amazon here. Print edition coming soon.

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Goals: June 2018

Time keeps passing; I keep struggling to catch up. The good news is I managed to accomplish my May goals … mostly.

In May I set these goals:

THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY REVISION:  I worked on this as much as time allowed, but there are still six chapters to go. Even so, I feel good about the massive rewriting we accomplished, so I’ll give myself a CHECK. ALASKA ESSAYS:  I definitely worked on these. There is definitely more work to do. I’ve hit a slower phase of my side of the work while the content...

Light and Shadow

The pre-order is up for the Light and Shadow ebook, coming June 5, 2018.

Click the image to pre-order on Amazon! More details coming soon.

If you haven’t read the book description yet, feel free to hazard a guess about who the new narrators are for Book Five in the comments. If you get it right, you might get a prize …

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Light and Shadow now has its own page here on my site, too. Check it out!

Goals: May 2018

April was another busy month. I only gave myself a few goals but it quickly became clear I wasn’t going to achieve even those few. Next month, smaller bites.

In April I planned to:

FINISH DAUGHTER of FORTUNE REWRITE:  this one keeps holding me up. I’m actually tabling this project until I can completely finish a few others. I’ve ben feeling like I’ve spread myself too thin. ALASKA ESSAYS:  I got through my second revision on the essays. They aren’t “done” yet, but my progress was consistent, a...

Goals: April 2018

I thought I was being clever by keeping my March goals short and sweet, but even so, I struggled to meet them. Sometimes life just gets too busy and it’s hard to stay on top of everything. The big wrench in the works for March was my Alaska Essays project, which I had thought was nearly done, but then late in the game needed another revision. For a book of nearly 150,000 words, another revision is a big deal and quite a few hours of work. I guess that’s what I get for leaping to the conclusio...

March 2018 : Goals

Ugh, February. It’s such a short, difficult month. I’m glad to see it go, but sad that I did not perform very well on my goals. The good news is I got a puppy, which always makes everything better.

Shadow the border collie mix is a loyal, curious, utterly devoted little sweetheart. He is currently sitting in my lap as I write this blog post. He has good balance and a particular ability to insert himself into laps unexpectedly.

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Last month I over ambitiously thought I could do all this despite...

Goals: February 2018

Well, last month was one of those months when all my plans went through a huge re-organization about a week into the month. The main reason is that two of my projects, River Running and The Eighth Octave, officially became projects written under a pseudonym I share with my co-writer. We have decided to publish these co-writes under the name Eden Reign, and the first Eden Reign book, River Running, will be coming out on March 6th!

If you’d like to stay up to date on those projects, please beco...

Pitching My Book to Agents: The Writer’s Digest Conference and Pitch Slam

Here’s a lovely blog my friend Morgan Vega wrote about her experience at the 2017 Writer’s Digest Conference. I roomed with her and the brilliant Tamara Shoemaker, and we were pitch-slam practicing buddies!

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Last August I did something I’ve never done before: I got on a train and went to New York to pitch my novel SLEEPING AROUND to agents.

I attended the 2017 Writer’s Digest Conference and Pitch Slam.

The below are pictures of me and my amazing, talented, supportive (I could go...