Inspiration for Castle's sequel...

I received an extraordinary inspiration for Castle's sequel!

I will take you into the depths of the Castle. Down the stairs and into the cool cellar. Keep traveling below Valen's apartment and into the basement. The one hundred years that this Castle stood tall before it was revised into the lavish Castle it is today a hidden secret storage room is found. There beneath the basement, beneath the staircases, a secret hall awaits you...

Push aside the cobwebs and nevermind the dark dust among the floor as the hall has not been traveled through for nearly one hundred years. Look there above the enormous double doors. The arc of the hall welcomes you to a new room. Do you see it? Engraved in the stone above the arc read the words... "Librar Eerie"

That's all you'll get for now. I'm going to finish the edits on Blue Sky before I began my new adventure with this eerie library.

Updates on the proofreading...

It's taken many many days to get this far but I am on page 178 of 278. I've got to remap out quite a few chapters in the midst of this Blue Sky. I found my timeline wrong in over 5 chapters and had to go back and remap out many things that didn't line up. I had to ADD a complete chapter to help make since of it all, and bring a new character to life, but their life was short lived as they were killed off by the end of that same chapter.

This new book is definatley in a different genre. I think my body count is up to 6 people thus far halfway through the book and it's definatley not a romance but more of a drama. I'm going to have to search for what genre I think this falls in because it's not Mystery, and not murder, but not murder mystery, but does have murder and mystery in the plot. So I'm tossed.

I have high expectations that this novel will be ready to have new sets of eyes proof read it for me by January 1. I'm working hard on making that happen. I have over 100 pages and an entire chapter to add in to have it finshed by Friday. Let's cross our fingers and get to work... but first...let's get some sleep.

g'night!

December is half gone... what have I been doing?

Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) has been over for 15 days. What the heck have I been doing to busy myself? I've been running through a final edit of my book Blue Sky Exposure, that I hope to have released by this spring. I have been up late re-reading the chapters, and sentences ensuring I have the exact details of my corrupt Blue Sky.

My children attend elementary school and I was pleasantly surprised by the principal requesting my help of organizing a Young Writers Club in the school to help the children publish their short stories. It's all in the planning stages but I'm glad to accept this offer to slap on my resume of wonderful writing accomplishments that I've done.

The holidays are sucking any and all free time I have but I'll enjoy them nonetheless. Enjoy this time with your family. Call your long lost sibling, or send your mom a card. Let them know you care. Family is the core of a great support. Keep them close at heart, and just think... you are only given one family in life. Well; usually. Although there are some profoundly odd scenarios of odd things happening in which you get more than one... but that's in another story. So take care of the family you have. Enjoy one another, argue with one another, and live life as you've never lived before. You never know if you are going to wake up tomorrow.... why not make the most of today.

I'm getting back to my Blue Sky.... you get back to your life and see what tomorrow brings us.

Great Review!

Directly from the Domestic Goddess herself Leah Kanaan has graciously written a book review of A Castle Inside. Leah won, fair and square, a copy of my book. I was so honored to hear her comments about it I couldn't wait to share!