Posted by Christine on Aug 4, 2010 in General, Randomness |
or as they are often referred to Beach Reads. I know what books I took on vacation, you can see my list here. I didn’t make it through the whole list I finished Three Days till Dead and On the Edge. I’m currently working on Doppelganger and enjoying it when I can steal a few minutes to read it. Out of curiosity where do you go to get your summer reading ideas. One of them is Flashlight Worthy books that just put out a whole list devoted to Beach Reads. Another idea is to check out the blogs and websites of authors you enjoy and see what they are reading. What are your thoughts, feel free to share in the...
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Posted by Christine on Aug 4, 2010 in General, Updates |
A status update? For real? Yup, here I am giving a real live status update so without further ado… Rejection Queen Status Update: – Rejections to date: 17, including the rejection of my outstanding partial. – Outstanding queries: 6 Other writing news: – Outside of the contest I have actually 22 rejections on Red and Grey. I was starting to feel a little discouraged but… I got over it and I’m getting my next round of queries ready to send now. – Everyone keep your fingers crossed for Cat’s Revealing which is currently with the editors at Brava in the Writing with the Stars contest. – I am currently working on the sequel to Red and Grey. I would like to have it finished by the end of the year. Personal Updates: – I didn’t get to read nearly as much as I wanted to on vacation. I was far to busy doing stuff. Have you ever noticed that about vacation, that you come home and need to relax and recover from all the “go, go, go†? – My family and I did have a wonderful time on our trip and I am excited have spent time with my husbands family and with my sister in...
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Posted by Christine on Aug 3, 2010 in Randomness |
I am participating in a Blog Hop, something I’ve never done before. But I’m going to try. So I wanted to introduce myself and share a little about my writing. You can see the rest of the participants in the Blog Hop here. My name is Christine Brant and I have been writing for the past five years. It all started on a dark and stormy night… not really, it started with a dream and an author’s web site. The authors web site (Kelley Armstrong – because I can’t pass up the chance to promote her) inspired me and I turned the dream into a novel creating a futuristic dystopian society. The novel was 100,000 words long and currently lives under my bed. One day I hope to rewrite it. Even if I never do, it will always hold a place in my heart because it started me on the path of writing. A few months later (October 2007) I had the opportunity to attend the Surrey International Writer’s Conference. I entered their Storytellers award contest with a story set in the same universe as the novel I’d written and I won. WOW!!! I also had the opportunity to meet Kelley Armstrong. It was an amazing weekend and I will always remember it. Since then I have completed two novels. One is Red and Grey – this is a retelling of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, it is written for an adult audience, meaning it is not a children’s book. While I would not call it a romance per se it has a strong romantic theme. (I do call it a fantasy, although I would have no problem seeing it shelved as romance or young adult as some people have suggested). I am in the process of querying Red and Grey at this time. The other novel I have finished is Cat’s Revealing – this is a paranormal romance that is currently entered in the Brava Writing with the Stars competition. No matter how it does in this contest, I will be starting the process of querying it later this month. Currently I am working on several different projects, I always seem to have two or three going at a time. One is the prequel to Cat’s Revealing, another paranormal romance. Another is the sequel to Red and Grey, called The Youngest Brother. This month I am committing to work on The Youngest Brother, I would really like to have it done by the end of the year. So feel free to look around my site, some samples of my writing are here for you to take a look at, including the first chapter of Cat’s Revealing, a piece of flash I wrote called The Window, and a chapter of Red and Grey. I hope you all...
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Posted by Christine on Jul 29, 2010 in General |
Vacation was wonderful. I loved visiting family and friends in Tennessee and Florida and hanging with my kids. I have to admit as wonderful as it was to be away I’m thrilled to be home and reunited with my house, my bed, and my internet connection. I know some people thrive away from technology and the break was nice but I wouldn’t be able to live that way long. I missed the internet, e-mail, twitter, my cell phone not dropping calls. The truth is I like being connected. I feel more stressed when I’m not connected then when I am. I mean, how do you research anything or look up important information without Wikipedia – the font of all knowledge? And how do you keep in touch with people without e-mail or a reliable cell phone connection? I know that there are people out there rolling their eyes at me right this minute thinking “Wow, has this chick never heard of the library or snail mail?†Yes, I have heard and used both. But the library is not available at 6:30pm when you want to know what the plural of the word “Pegasus†is. Nor is Snail Mail convenient when you want to invite someone to come over for dinner at 7:00pm and it is current 3:45pm. Both of these incidents arose on our trip. I love the library and visit it often, I send packages through the post office frequently as well. But I’ll admit to being tied to my technology in ways that generations prior to mine were not and generations after mine will likely take for granted. So yes, I am thrilled to be home, and have my beloved connectivity back. Oh, I missed my hubby this past week too....
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Posted by Christine on Jul 11, 2010 in General |
So I had six books all picked out to take with me on vacation. I went ahead and started one of them, On the Edge, by Ilona Andrews. Really liked it. Can’t wait to read Bayou Moon – already told Hubby he could buy it for me for Christmas. 😉 I’m glad I have Magic Bites to take with me. Looking forward to reading more by this author. Yeah, the only problem, I did nothing all afternoon today so I could finish it. Uhm…yeah…oopps. I kind of planned to clean the house and finish packing today, oh well, such is life, guess I’ll stay up late and finish those things. Oh, the next book on my list Three Days till Dead by Kelly Meding. I will not start it till I’m done packing. I swear. Really I do… More room in my suitcase for some other book I want to read. :-) One last post tomorrow and then I will be offline for two weeks....
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