Six Sentence Sunday - August 14

I took a short break from participating in Six Sentence Sunday as I had to deal with various things, but I'm back now.  Here is another short snippet from the newly released The Master Key.

 

She ate with the aloof and regal air expected of a woman in her current standing—she’d been practising—and the gruff, single-mindedness of a combat soldier.

“You’ve a healthy appetite,” James commented, enthralled.

“So I’ve been told. I missed my dinner,” she replied pointedly, glaring back. “I was hungry.”

My heroine Josie keeps getting herself into trouble.  And what's she doing with this James dude?

If you want to know a little bit more about The Master Key, click up to my Books tab above.

Thanks again to everyone who drops by to read these tasty snippets and leaving wonderful comments.

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Cheers!

Sucker for Punishment

Yep, you read right.  I'm going full-speed ahead and lining myself up for some brutal punishment.  I have no one to blame but myself.

I've decided to query agents again...

And funny how after a couple years of not hacking out submission queries, you tend to forget a few things.  I can't even look through my saved files to take notes since the computer crashed dramatically a year ago and wiped that out.  But then, considering I wasn't able to attract an agent then, maybe that's a good thing.

For the last couple of hours, I've spent this glorious Monday morning (said with sarcasm...who loves Mondays anyway?) typing and retyping a passable submission query and trying to "get it right."  Jeez, talk about the pressure of trying to sound business-like AND catchy.  Maybe I should take lessons in narrating movie trailers.  Maybe I should just forget about it completely and stick to my publishers.  But I can't shake the feeling that there's more out there for me.  Hence, the predicament of punishment.

So, I pretty much slapped together a moderately pleasing query letter (which I'll probably pick at some more) and sent off my very first submission query in two years.  What a heady experience, I swear my heart was thudding somewhere close to my throat as my finger hovered over the SEND button.  Then I remembered I forgot to add the word count and smacked myself in the head.  See, the punishment begins.  Sigh...

On that note, Happy Monday.

Cheers!

And, Yet Another Interview!

When it rains, it pours!  The same can be said for interviews (does that sound cheeky?)  But it's true.  Yet another interview has gone live within days of the last interview.  Residential Aliens interviewed me (ages ago) and asked some interesting questions, for both me as an Artist, as well as a Writer.  They also wanted to see some of the "doodles" I've done recently.  You can check out the interview HERE.

PS: Glad to be back from my holidays!  And now, time to dive into work.

Another Interview and Fabulous Review

So, my holiday has ended.  Two weeks of blissful oblivion - just what I needed.  Now, I'm ready and rearing to get back into things.

To kick things off, I was recently interviewed by a fellow Champagne Books writer, Julie Eberhart Painter.  Find out my real name, as Julie "grilled" me with intrusive questions.  Click on over to Champagne Books Blog to find out more.

Earlier, The Master Key was reviewed by Laura Hogg from Travel The Ages.  She had some generous words to describe her thoughts on the book.  Thank you Laura!  Check it out HERE!!