Celebrate the Small Things 20-6-25

 

It's the end of the week, so it's time to Celebrate the Small Things.

What am I celebrating this week?

It's the weekend! And it's Matariki.

Standing Too Close is now available for pre-sale.  Very excited by that!  Pre-sales are so important for an author and really help a book launch well, so if you have a spare $5 lurking in your pocket, I'd really appreciate it if you'd pre-order this beautiful little story.  Think of it as a treat for your future self.  Come 8 August, you'll probably have forgotten you bought it, so when it shows up in your e-reader, it'll be a nice surprise.

Haven't got as much writing done during the week as I had hoped to, but plan to get some real time over the next few days.  Our Board gifted us an extra day of leave on Monday, so I plan for that to be a writing day.

I think I'm a little stuck because I know where I want to go with the story, and what happens when I get there, but I can't figure out how to get there without having to write a whole pile of journal entries that don't really drive the plot.  At this point, Arlo's used up all the pages in his notebook and is writing his journal on whatever paper he can find - receipts, newspaper, movie tickets - so it would be realistic if he lost a bunch of them, but is that a cop out?  I felt like I could just re-start at a point where he gets a new notebook and then we could skip over a couple months where nothing much happens.  thoughts???

Had two more rejections for A Stranger to Kindness this week.  So, I sent out a handful more queries.  Beginning to think this is going to be just like the last two books I queried and get no requests.  Which is so frustrating when I know the book is good.  I guess I just don't know what agents and publishers are looking for anymore.

What are you celebrating this week?