What are you working on?

[Catrina]

Stacy wrote: "Have to finish edits on draft two of my second novel so it's ready for the developmental editor by 9-6. Also working on a trilogy I'm really excited about as well as gearing up for my debut release..."

Stacy! That's a wonderful writing career you have. Thanks, he works hard on them and is self taught. :)

[Cheri]

I am currently working on editing my second historical romance novel. The first in the series, Love's Misadventure, was published through Amazon, Kindle, and eBookIt (which distributes to B&B, Kobo, Sony, iBook, etc.). I hope to complete my editing in the next couple of days then hand my manuscript to my beta reader.

I've got the next two books in the series already plotted, and my mind constantly fills up with other plots that it's almost a challenge to simply have the time to write them all down!

I have to admit, though, that I absolutely love being a newly published author! It's great fun!

[Julie]

I released my YA debut novel Crux in July 2012. Now, I'm working on three (count 'em three) YA novels and I'm seriously doubting my sanity! Lol :)

[Luna]

@Julie I have no problems embracing my insanity. I mean as an author you have to make up your own little world. You have whole conversations with fictional people. These same fictional people who you know more about than your closest friends... Yeah I am already 'there'.

[Julie]

Luna wrote: "@Julie I have no problems embracing my insanity. I mean as an author you have to make up your own little world. You have whole conversations with fictional people. These same fictional people who y..."

Glad I'm not alone! We will be crazy, oops, I mean eccentric together :)

[Steelwhisper]

Once I manage to overcome my massive case of block I will continue with "Third Watch", work also on plotting an erotic literature novel, and write a few key scenes of a historical novel.

Heh. But first I need to get over that block.

[Patricia]

Julie wrote: "I released my YA debut novel Crux in July 2012. Now, I'm working on three (count 'em three) YA novels and I'm seriously doubting my sanity! Lol :)"

Sanity is overrated. Didn't Neil Gaiman have a quote about that? ;)

[Catrina]

I'm still working on my current WIP and have a very rough outline for the second book in the YA series.

[Karen]

I'm getting ready to e-publish my latest book, Wander Home, a family drama with mystery elements set in an afterlife of my own devising. I'm trying to get the cover right, and preparing to move from manuscript to publication formatting. (Anyone want to do an advance review??)

[[deleted user]]

I'm still polishing my latest book Mourningtide, which *was* to be out the end of October. But I had a 'revelation' on the first third of the story and am in the middle of a fortunately not-so-huge rewrite.

This is a sequel to
The City of Refuge

[Laura]

My editor is reviewing Orestes: The Warrior, which leaves me time to research and outline the book about Minoan Knossos that I've been wanting to write.

[Catrina]

Awesome! I've started a very rough out line of the plot for the second novel in my Caspian series. XD

[Catrina]

Denise wrote: "I'm still promoting and working on a new novel-a romantic crime adventure.

Denise Baer
http://www.authordenisebaer.com/"

Awesome! :) Good luck with those. :)

[[deleted user]]

Andrew wrote: "I'm learning about how to promote myself this week, by which I mean reading sites like Goodreads (obviously) but also trawling the net for advice, tips, do these things, don't do these things...

..."

Hey Andrew! If you're looking to distribute your short stories for free, you'll probably want to load them onto Smashwords as well. Amazon won't do free unless it's available elsewhere on the web for free (and you'll need to get people to alert Amazon). Also, if you're lucky, your story will be picked up and reposted all over the web from Smashwords. I've had over 2000 downloads from a few free stories that way. Good luck!

[[deleted user]]

Right now, I'm finishing up edits on my debut novel, Tough Girl. Hoping for a mid-November release. Cover is being worked on and the copy is out to a proofreader. :)

[[deleted user]]

Denise wrote: "I'm still promoting and working on a new novel-a romantic crime adventure.

Denise Baer
http://www.authordenisebaer.com/"

Good luck Denise! Going to check out your website!

[Michael]

Mostly at the moment I'm promoting Warren Peace, and working on a few short stories. Just posted one to the Creative Writing area if you want to check it out. My next will be a non-erotic story about a group of catsuit-wearing lesbians, based on some friends of mine. And I'm being mithered to start a sequel for Warren Peace already....

[[deleted user]]

Denise wrote: "Libby wrote: "Denise wrote: "I'm still promoting and working on a new novel-a romantic crime adventure.

Denise Baer
http://www.authordenisebaer.com/"

Good luck Denise! Goi..."


Checking out the blog now. :)

[[deleted user]]

Libby wrote: "Denise wrote: "Libby wrote: "Denise wrote: "I'm still promoting and working on a new novel-a romantic crime adventure.

Denise Baer
http://www.authordenisebaer.com/"

Good lu..."


Hey Denise! I checked it out and it looks cool. I may participate when my book is ready. That would be great. Have you ever thought of turning it into a blog hop as well? Maybe a "Feature your favorite Indie" blog hop? Just a thought. I've never organized one before but I've participated.

[Kevin]

It's good to see everyone so hard at work writing and promoting. I have to say, I think that promoting is the hardest part. That's why I dislike it so much! haha.

I have currently just started a choose your own adventure novel. I've never attempted anything like that before, but that's why I need to do it now. The plot came to me, so no I have to write it. It's an incredibly large undertaking (the plot map covers a portion of my wall the size of a mattress) that I'm trying to just write and not think about. Otherwise, I know I run the risk of being dumb and giving up.

[Victoria]

I am working on the line up for the second Strange Tales book, Strange Lives. I am editing my post post apocalyptic zombie story (After The End) which will be included, as well as attempting to rewrite a creation myth story called Origin that I lost when the old laptop suffered a coffee related accident (yes, I know I should have printed it out!) which will be included if I remember enough of it to do it justice! That is definitely the fun of short story collections - when one story is stuck I can set it aside and look at a different one without ending up all scattered and stretched too thin.

[Kevin]

Victoria wrote: "I am working on the line up for the second Strange Tales book, Strange Lives. I am editing my post post apocalyptic zombie story (After The End) which will be included, as well as attempting to rew..."

Those sound like really interesting projects, Victoria. I especially like the idea of the creation myth story. Keep up the good work!

[sonya]

plans for a cops novel when teen cops bust people for drugs.

[Catrina]

Sonya wrote: "plans for a cops novel when teen cops bust people for drugs."

Ah, that takes me back to a show called 21 Jump Street. It was awesome, aside from all the racism in it.

[[deleted user]]

teen cops bust people for drugs.

It has been a long week. Make that three weeks.

I read this and thought 'Huh? the busted people paid teen cops in drugs for busting them?'

I woke up, read again and smacked myself.

[Sherri]

I'm still working on the mystery novel about the woman that unknowingly gets tangled up in a botched deal with a djinn. I've been working on it since May and have to say that this is a fun project! I'm loving this story. I hope one of my publishers will pick it up and the readers will enjoy reading it as much as I'm enjoying writing it.

[Michael]

I'm writing/planning a story sequence for an app based on my debut novel. It's a bit of fun and probably won't come to anything, in fact I'm sure it won't, but its giving me lots of ideas for my next book. I'll have a look at contacting the animation/app studios once it is done.

[Victoria]

Kevin wrote: "Victoria wrote: "I am working on the line up for the second Strange Tales book, Strange Lives. I am editing my post post apocalyptic zombie story (After The End) which will be included, as well as ..."

Thank you :~D The beginnings or the end of the world are something of a running theme for me. There is a creation myth in Strange Love - Short Stories and Twisted Tales as well, but told from a cat's perspective ;~)

[David]

Not being terribly productive, but I finally got around to filling out my author page on Amazon.uk and also translated my bio into German and put it up on Author Central at Amazon.de. Small steps.

[Catrina]

David wrote: "Not being terribly productive, but I finally got around to filling out my author page on Amazon.uk and also translated my bio into German and put it up on Author Central at Amazon.de. Small steps."

Hey David, that's still a step in the right direction. :)

[Kevin]

I've got a few things that I'm doing.

I just got my first novel e-published, and I'm preparing to really start promoting it now that some real life stuff is out of the way. I have a particularly ambitious idea that I'm going to start working on soon.

I'm continually working on writing and publishing my webcomic about baseball fans. With our chosen team (the Giants) heading to the playoffs, that's taking up a lion's share of time.

I'm also debating about which writing project to pick up next: a short story series that's Urban Fantasy, several fiction novels, or even some YouTube shorts for a series. That's my hardest decision right now.

[sonya]

Book Freak of Nature

by Sonya Van Etten



Book obsessed? Not me! To date I only own 359 books. Compared to some, with 2, 000 books in their personal libraries...I'm at the tip of the iceberg. One fellow has a book issue, with 35,000 books in his collection! I'm not writing this to compare how many books I have to another person.
My passion for books and reading began when I was a child. I had a lot of the Little Golden books on a bookcase in my room. I knew that books took me into another world even then, though I did not think about it often. Lots of times I just read to read. I did not analyze my life or take a “book inventory”. I was six years old! My favorite stories were “The Pokey Little Puppy”, “Animals” (an encyclepedia for children about the wild), and “Cinderella”.
As I grew up, my book tastes changed. At a book fair in fifth grade, I picked up my first scary book. I can see the cover in my mind but have since forgotten the title. Haha! Pity they did not sell Stephen King, whose writing entered my life two years later!
I always had my nose in a book and my parents complained.
“Did you vacuum?”
“No, I forgot.”
Truth was, I read a book for hours on end daily. I got in trouble for forgetting my chores. Often, an hour beefore my father got home, I rushed to get dishes put away, dog fed, and vacuuming done!
Later in life, I could not part with any of my books. I did not have a book case. The novels were stacked on the floor in my tiny bedroom. If a fire had started, I would not be here. My parents were at a loss because I kept bringing the books home. My bedroom was a firehazard and a tripping zone due to my mobility issues. It was a prison.
My father said, one day, “Sonya, we know you love books, but you have to stop. Get a storage unit for the books.” I was seventeen and earning a paycheck. Wise advice but no way was I doing it!
If I did not have my books around me, I would go into a full-blown panic attack. I needed help from a counselor to deal with the anxiety, but I was in deep denial. My dysfunctional childhood lead to the anxiety and later depression; I had been raped as a child. Books consoled me, cradled me in ways my parents could not.
When I was eighteen I found a new way to spend money, the all-mighty credit card. My first one had a limit of $500.00. At first I would buy one book then pay it all, then three more and pay that off. Months later, I got approved for a second card with a $600.00 limit and a third for a limit of $300.00. I mxed out all the cards on novels, not clothes or shoes, as some teens do. Could I pay them all off? No! I decided to forget paying them when my minimum balance wass more than I made at work. I got one card with a new limit from $300.00 to $600.00. It did not help! Matters got way worse, with additional interest and late fees!
That pattern of hiding in a book continued into my adulthood. In my twenties, I quit working for a life on disability. A new symtom of anxiety appeared, writing inventory lists of all my books. No matter how broke I got, I had my books. I did not care if I ate.
Manchester Public Library, a town in which I was homeless many times, lets patrons borrow as many paperbacks as you want, a help to us book addicts.

[David P]

Working on my third eBook in the Sovereign Spirit Saga ("Deluge of the Dead"). I have a 250 word (or less) writing challenge underway at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... for those interested. Winners get two of my eBooks and their entry included in my 3rd book (with credit/acknowledgement).

The first book in the saga, Voyage of the Dead, will also be FREE on Monday 10/8.

[Alex]

Working on the second book in my Aliomenti Saga series, titled Preserving Hope. It's the follow-up to A Question of Will .

[Michael]

I'm working on a mash-up novel: Babe Ruth and the Werewolves of Fenway. It's set when he was a kid with the Red Sox. Can't tell you more...

[sonya]

denise I'll do it when I have time. looks great

[sonya]

lately been thinking about my books a lot, how they soothe me

[Tony]

I'm currently working on my fifth(Wow! Can't believe it myself!) YA book, inspired by "Project Blueseed" - Google that if you're interested. Early days yet, still getting a feel for the world and the characters.

[Michael]

Working on promotion, filling in author interview questions and attempting to not feel bad about sitting down writing all day and eating chocolate...

[Sherry]

I'm editing the first draft of a novel I finished this summer (am I the only writer who loves editing?); trying to get the word out about my recently published novel, Beyond Billicombe; and to pay the bills, writing lots of web copy and a white paper on social media.

[Margaret]

I ma working on another collection of Short Stories set in Australia. It's well past the half way mark, and I'm hoping to publish it next year. Most of my writing now is done on my Wordpress blog. I really enjoy blogging because I love photography, too, and this enables me to combine both.

[Lynxie]

Currently NaNoing my novel. waaaaay behind the target word count, but I'm still writing, which is what counts :D

[Jill]

I'm also working on NaNo. It is to be the third and final book in my series, The Vows. My word count is staying with par, but I hope to get more tonight.

[Paul]

The Garden: The Unauthorized Biography of Adam and Eve. It will be in e-book format and out on Amazon this coming December in time for the holidays. The Garden -- The Unauthorized Biography of Adam and Eve

[Racquel]

I'm currently editing my novel. :)

[Margaret]

I'm still working on my next collection of short stories and vignettes. I spend a lot of time blogging and on Twitter, too. Promotion is so time-consuming!

[Steelwhisper]

NaNoWriMo. I ought to be writing a semi-fluffy Regency, I am actually writing a very hardcore erotic romance.

[[deleted user]]

I am working on a Creatity/Art Book, focused on team work and Artistic Collaboration :)

[Lynxie]

@Steelwhisper - It's funny how that happens hey?! I started with a fantasy, now it's either extremely dark fantasy or a fantasy/horror mix! Crazy!

Happy writing!

[S.J.]

Juggle-writing a novella prequel to my Longevity Law Enforcement trilogy (due to my own inability to abandon my characters without exploring more what made them the people they are AND requests from my miniscule fan base) and a family drama based on a true story. Which I work on depends on my mood that day and which is nagging at me with interesting thoughts.