ROW80 Update – Charging ahead full steam after pittering out last month

Alright, so it’s the first of the month! I’ve been a lousy blogger, but I’ve had my head down to finish No Strings Attached and get that subbed, which I did on Friday. I took the weekend to not do much of anything, and just took care of stuff at home, which was good because my uncle and his daughter came in to visit.

It’s also #ROW80 day, so let’s get on to the goals. For August, this is what I have planned:

Authors After Dark, 8th – 12th
Write unnamed bounty hunter story
Finish revisions for Off Her Game
Start zero draft of Scoring His Heart

Next week, I’ll be in New Orleans for Authors After Dark so i don’t expect to have writerly things happen. In fact, I’m treating it as a vacation. I will suffer financially for this, but I will survive. I need this time away and I get to meet cool peoples.

I pitched to EC during NGTCC on Romance Divas this year, so I got a partial request from them. I’m hoping to hear back within the next month or so, though she didn’t really give me a timeline for that. In general, from what I’ve seen, people tend to hear within 4-6 weeks. So I’ll wait that long before I think about status updates or anything.

I also came up with a bounty hunter idea and (YAY!) I get to scratch this fantasy itch I’ve had the last couple months. But time for this call is short (it’s due in Nov) so I’m hoping they’ll buy NSA so I can have that extra month to write this book.

I’m also going to try to get into revisions for Off Her Game. At this point, it’s made the rounds and gathered lots of rejections from epubs. I’d planned on shopping agents with it, but I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just self-pub it. I mean, I do have a cover for it already. I was playing around and made a mock cover that I kind of love. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with it. I love that story, so letting it sit in a drawer (file folder) isn’t going to happen.

I’m also going to start working on Scoring His Heart, the second book in my hockey romance series. This book gives me fits. I’ve started and scrapped it more times than I can count. I’m hoping this month I can get the first couple of chapters done. But it’s a busy month and I already planned way too much, so I’m thinking it might not happen.

Priority is going to be the bounty hunter story though. I should look at titles for that book too….

Other than that, I’m good. Charging full steam ahead and having fun with it.

How’s everyone else’s writing going?