I’m ready to start this NaNo writing rumpus.  Fleshed out in not-too-deep detail is an outline for my paranormal/sci-fi, middle-grade mystery thriller.  Well, it thrills me.  I know characters, plot, technologies, settings, what to research and what to create.  I wrote an unrelated short story that pinged my third layer for this book into existence–the virtual reality bit, and I’m so excited to play with it.  I really can’t wait to get started.

Also, I thought I’d note that Becca Fitzpatrick’s Hush, Hush is #7 on the New York Times bestseller list!  The book melts in your mouth, it’s true.  And Becca just plain rocks.

I just admired my fellow writer Pat Esden’s corkboard on her wall.  It’s bursting with pink and white plot notes in very specific places on her very specific timeline.

http://patesden.livejournal.com/61204.html

Not only am I envious of her ability to crank out book after book (they’re good–and look what she does to get them that way), I’m envious of her space.  It is entirely refreshing and… voyeuristic? to see inside another writer’s room–her desk, her walls, the outlines she has posted up.  She has a writer’s heaven.

I cannot wait to have my own room to clutter (or clean–hers is still clean).  With artwork, outlines, corkboards, rejection letters, file cabinets, clotheslines, book shelves, a heavy bag, maybe a hammock… whatever helps my worlds come true.  I’ll bury myself in my writer’s sarcophagus and haunt any who dare intrude my heaven.

Which currently looks like this:

Lots of windows to see out of.

Thanks, Patty, that was a lovely present.

Mary Kole of Andrea Brown is having a query contest for YA, MG and picture books.  The deadline is October 31st at witching hour.  Well, 11:59 pm.

www.nanowrimo.org

I didn’t think I could do this last year.  Time, right?  As in, none of it?  After everyone’s stories, I wish I’d considered it anyways.  So… enough thinking.

I’m signed up!!!

watch the trailer:

http://www.amazon.com/Hush-Becca-Fitzpatrick/dp/1416989412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255495725&sr=8-1

see the interview:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Hush-Hush/Becca-Fitzpatrick/9781416989417

buy the book:

I read Hush, Hush when it was still being revised, and way back then it was fantastic.  I could think of nothing else for days.  It was released from Simon and Schuster today!  Becca Fitzpatrick is an incredibly talented writer, with a fresh voice and a feel for sexual tension and adventure that are gripping.  Nora and Patch won’t ever let you go.  Seriously.  Buy it.