The Little Writer That Could

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I'm slowly emerging from the writing cave. My eyes are adjusting to the light. I'm sweeping the cobwebs off the blog and making sure everything's in working order. I'll be ready to put the wheels back in motion this week with a book review for one of my favorite fall books, but for now, I just want you to know that I've missed you and can't wait to reconnect.

Here's the deal: I had an aggressive deadline for my edits for HEMINGWAY'S GIRL because in October, my foreign rights agent is going to Frankfurt where, hopefully, she'll get some foreign publishers interested in the book. The agent needs the complete, approved manuscript by October 1st, so I had to get my edits back to my editor at NAL/Penguin ASAP to give her enough time to read.

Now, if I have to make more changes, which is entirely possible and maybe even probable, we'll miss the deadline. If my editor can't get through the million other projects she has before October, that's the way the cookie crumbles. All I could do was rely heavily on family and babysitters, neglect my house, and not sleep to get the work done–which I did–but now it's out of my hands, and I am at peace with that.

I'll keep you posted every step of the way, as promised, but for now I look forward to a return to semi-normalcy, blogging, reading other people's books, and diving back into my new manuscript starring Zelda Fitzgerald.

For which the first three chapters and a full synopsis are due on Nov. 1st.

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