Katie Clark's Enslaved!

If you liked The Hunger Games, or Divergent, then check out this link to Katie Clark’s upcoming series book trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1q3Fg06I0A&list=PLgaEO-1ZbzYWwmOGkfyj4G2QWkOAwFZIi&feature=share
Katie is one of my writer friends. She is the author of the upcoming young adult dystopian "Enslaved" series with Watershed, an imprint of Pelican Book Group, as well as picture books and over 50 short stories and articles for children and adults.

SCBWI Fall Conference

Registered for the SCBWI Midsouth Fall Conference. Can't wait.

Here's a link so you can check it out. https://midsouth.scbwi.org

I think I finished my final revision of my MG novel!

I hope I am finished revising. Now the hard part. GRAMMAR and PUNCTUATION. Then hope to find a crit group for MG.

I haven't been active on the blog, but have been working hard on the novel.

Here we go.

I've been busy revising my novel and reading books on the craft. Just finished Plot and Structure, Conflict and Suspense, and Revision and Self-Editing - again - by James Scott Bell.

What are you currently reading?

2014!

The new year is here! My writing goals for last year were to submit at least 12 stories or articles to magazines. I submitted 15 and made my first sale! It was a game submitted to Highlights. They went on to buy three more of my pieces. One was a fiction piece.

I also finished a first draft of a MG novel.

My goal for this year is the same. I will sub at least 12 pieces to magazines, and revise and finish my first novel and write a first draft of my second one.

Happy New Year?

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas. I will post more after the new year begins.

Rick.

Are you ready for PiBoIdMo?

You still have time to register for PiBoIdMo! Check it out at http://taralazar.com/ !

First Fiction Sale!

Received my first contract for fiction from Highlights.  No Idea when it will actually be printed, but I'm happy to wait.

PiBoIdMo 2013 is here!

Waiting

I finished my first draft of my first novel. I want to wait at least two weeks before I start revising. Why is it so hard to wait? I am getting all kinds of ideas of thing I need to change. Things I need to add. And things I know I need to cut. I do keep adding notes, but it's hard not to jump in and start.

Yes, I have started outlining my next novel, but It's still hard to wait.