Creative Reviews discussion

I cannot believe how long it has been since I have been around!!! I miss you guys so much! And, I know there are all kinds of new cool people that I haven't met yet. :-(

I have been SOOOO busy! Reading, reviewing, blogging, editing, proofreading, mommying, baseballing, remodeling, cleaning... The list goes on and on!

I just wanted to stop in and say "hi" to you all! I hope you still love me! LOL :-)

Who is this Cassie person of which you speak?:)

We miss you too!

Splitter

Hi Cassie! You are busy! Such is life, I guess. :)

Aaah, missed you too! :-D

Cassiiiiieeeee! Have you been publishing things? Have you got a link for us?
JAC

J.A. wrote: "Cassiiiiieeeee! Have you been publishing things? Have you got a link for us?
JAC"

she's been editing for sure! ;-)

Thanks y'all! :-)

I haven't had time for my own writing...lol... I tried to do the February challenge on 750words.com, but I got too busy to keep up with that too. I did get a lot done, though... just not enough to be anywhere near publishing. You can see some of the other things I've been working on in the Editing section of my blog.

Gathering Leaves

Barbara wrote: "J.A. wrote: "Cassiiiiieeeee! Have you been publishing things? Have you got a link for us?
JAC"

she's been editing for sure! ;-)"

:-)

::waves:: hey cassie!!

She's been dodging everyone claiming that mythical activity editing. I sent her my book (finally!) to read/edit and what's she do? She went out of town! haha.

Cassie, don't feel badly, I've been gone from the group even longer than you! Does anyone even remember who I am???

Spent the day working online yesterday (seriously, from 8 or 9 in the morning until 5 or 6 at night) with my graphics designer, Sessha Batto, and got a new cover for Conditioned Response. Here's who I am now:



Can't wait to see you add this cover to your blog's Project List page, Cassie (hint hint hint)

I'm going to submit Sessha's cover to contests for covers, too - any publicity is good publicity - but gotta get the edits done! Paul's almost done (as is SapperMike) and Patrick started diving in this weekend. Tricia's the only one slacking now (:: waves :: Tricia, you're the backup, no pressure)

-Friday

Friday- that is a great new cover! Looks awesome!

Cassie -
I have been MIA too. Man life just takes over and its hard to keep up isn't it?
I miss you all though!

Cambria wrote: "Friday- that is a great new cover! Looks awesome!"

Thanks, Cambria. I heard from Cassie (since I'm nagging at her and the rest of the team for updates and status reports!) Turns out she's been sidetracked by life and yeah, life sure can make it hard to keep up! I don't feel so badly after hearing the trevails of half of my editorial team!

Got the first pass of line-edits from 1 of the 6 though and am almost done completing all of his catches so my book is moving forward despite everybody's lives interfering!

I'm so excited for this book's release. Chomping at the bit only half describes it!

-Friday

Friday, CR is officially up on my project page! :-) Now that the funeral is over, hopefully I can get some work done! Hopefully...

Cassie wrote: "Friday, CR is officially up on my project page! :-) Now that the funeral is over, hopefully I can get some work done! Hopefully..."

I'm so sorry you've had to deal with this situation all week, Cassie. It's this book. It's cursed. Patrick's JUST getting done with his "elderly relative" situation and SapperMike (that friend/consultant I hooked into this 10 days ago) set himself up over the weekend to read while he was sequestered in a work-related remote location for 2 days anyway--and a piece of masonry fell on his head when he sat down to read. He just got out of the hospital last night.

Un-freak-real. I'm telling you this book is CURSED!! Read at your own risk!!

Sarah, the Webbiegrrl Writer wrote: "Cassie wrote: "Friday, CR is officially up on my project page! :-) Now that the funeral is over, hopefully I can get some work done! Hopefully..."

I'm so sorry you've had to deal with this situa..."

It's not funny... but it is. It is pretty freaky...LOL. I had to take a mental health day yesterday, and I've been busy with home and kids today, but I plan to get back to reading!!

Perhaps you should pick luckier people to work for you! Hahahaha!!

Cassie wrote: "Now that the funeral is over, hopefully I can get some work done! Hopefully..."

To which I replied: "
Un-freak-real. I'm telling you this book is CURSED!! Read at your own risk!! "

And Cassie answered: "It's not funny... but it is. It is pretty freaky...LOL. I had to take a mental health day yesterday, and I've been busy with home and kids today, but I plan to get back to reading!!

Perhaps you should pick luckier people to work for you! Hahahaha!! "

Ironically, the people I picked were pretty lucky people--until they started reading my book!!

I had to take a mental health day yesterday, too. Thursday night, exhausted from working 2 trucks at my labor-intensive day job, I crawled onto my "bed" (an airbed from Walmart, not a real bed) and it exploded....deflated quickly. I have been sleeping on the floor now. My back is killing me and it's back to the labor day job today. I'm not sure I actually can work without sleeping at night. As fat/overweight as I am, my bones still poke into the floor when I lie down on it.

I still cannot afford a bed, but I might try to find a memory foam "topper" thing cheap ($50 or less) At least that won't explode or deflate every six months! This is my 3rd air bed from Walmart (at $50 a pop) in 2 years so I could nearly have afforded a bed at this point. Argh.

Cassie, I still need to write that battle scene (now that SapperMike is out, having been hospitalized when the roof fell on him as he tried to sit down and read this book--seriously, try to be careful when you read!!) so if I can just figure out how to sleep for ONE frakkin night, clear my head by clearing my body of pain, I can try to get that done Monday/Tuesday, though I onlyhave half days each day.

You'll see I have it outlined and all figured out, just need to write it in the correct/appropriate tone of voice. That's what I wanted Mike's help with (oh well). Hopefully by the time you get to the scene (at the 90% mark) I'll have finished it! There's enough finished material just after it to give you a feel for the ending - will it be a "Satisfying Reader Experience"? Inquiring minds want to know! ^_^

-Friday

Kind of sucks that life just gets in the way, huh? I'm relegated to visiting Goodreads like once a week now. Too much to do and too little time to do it. As my son says, "If it's due tomorrow, do tomorrow!"

Love the book cover, Friday!

Thanks, Dale and my deepest condolensces for your real life interfering with your personal life that way! Some responsibilities just have no sense of perspective and pop up at the most ridiculous times ((GGG))

Georgina, MY book is cursed. I swear to gawwwwd it is. There's nothing wrong with the file, it's not the actual "book" that has a problem; it's the BOOK, the concept, the effort to launch it, the people involved in it all getting .... I dunno, dumped on by A Higher Power? It's super freaky the way this book is bringing bad luck to everyone who tries to further it towards release.

I don't mind all that much because I've always noticed that the battle between Good and Evil seems to play out fairly predictably. This book is really, really Good so the Evil in the universe is fighting really, really hard to stop it from succeeding (LOL) I am fondly reminded of a line from the book, repeated by a trio of characters who are genetically almost identical:

I'm just NOT that easy to kill--but you're welcome to try!!

-Friday

Oh and I got a TRUE blessing from the gal at Bed, Bath & Beyond (thanks to Tricia K for suggesting BBB - I never would've thought to look there cos they're usually not the cheapest place in the world)

I got a discontinued model, already opened (not used) and returned King size (actually only 72" square but it's great) foam "mattress" that is 3" thick and goes for $299 - she had already knocked it down 33% but that had gotten the return and she saw where I work (I was dressed for work already) and offered to knock off another 50% so bottom line, I got a $300 "mattress/bed" for $90 - woo hoo!! I cannot wait to try it out tonight. I haven't slept since Wed really. This is gonna be great! (I am far too easy to please, aren't I?)

And it arrives to deliver me great sleep just in the nick of time! I have the next 3 days "off" to write that battle scene and finish collecting/incorporating what edits I have to this point. Perfect!

Yep, I am just not that easy to kill (haha)

-Friday

Friday wrote: "Oh and I got a TRUE blessing from the gal at Bed, Bath & Beyond (thanks to Tricia K for suggesting BBB - I never would've thought to look there cos they're usually not the cheapest place in the wor..."

That is awesome! Be sure to let us know how it goes...

It's NOWHERE near as good as I had hoped it would be (compresses down to about 1/4" thick once I lie on it) but it is a soft 1/4" and is a 300% improvement over bare floor.

We had some severe weather overnight so I woke up a lot around the middle of the night when the storms were heavy with the thunder, lightning and wind throwing branches around but except for those 2-3 hours, I slept from around 8;30 until 6am!! Since I usually get up at 4am that's great that I slept late, was ABLE to sleep late :) So I guess it works! My neck still hurts but my back feels MUCH better. I'm sooo glad to have finally gotten some sleep.

Now I can get back to work on the book! I've got some structural rearrangements I want to do but am asking the team about, Cassie, as each of you gets there. I'm checking the PDFs to see where you are :) Tricia and Paul have both already gotten through the two points. Waiting on you and Allan.

The bed is still awesome! It's truly amazing how much my mood has improved after just 2 nights of actually SLEEPING :-)

The violent storms passing through the area are on and off still but even waking up from thunder, lightning and driven rain pounding branches against the ceiling can't ruin a good night's sleep after not sleeping for 2 nights! Yay for Good Deeds! I really need to pay it forward somewhere.

-sry
p.s. Allan finished reading so you're the only one left Cassie! (hint hint hint *hahahaha*)

Georgina wrote: "Got it! You had me very confused Sarah/Friday! :) Georgina."

haha you are NOT the only one who's confused, Georgina!! And I'm hoping I haven't completely ruined the effort to keep Friday's true identity shielded as a marketing tactic. I probably have but oh well.

-Friday