And now for the nerves...

I almost feel like I should be sitting in a confessional while I write this... Bless me, for I have sinned. It has been almost one whole month since my last blog post and update. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I may not ask God for forgiveness but I will ask my loyal followers to forgive my lack of dribble on the account that I have been swamped with submissions. My friends on the time-wasting facebook know I received a request from Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks after an online pitch. See there plenty of advantages to blog surfing and time-wasters. So I saw a post calling for pitches and decided to try my luck. Low and behold... I can write a mean pitch! Now let's see if I write a mean story =) My opera singer regency is my most beloved of stories so far so I hope I can find her a good home soon. It seems sad that more people haven't read it which brings me to a huge thanks I owe Kelly. Thanks for loving it!!! Kelly and Alexis usually read my books and tell me what they think and this time when I gently prodded, Kelly stepped up and put her hand up for the dubious honour. I won't copy and paste the email that had me grinning like an idiot yet again but I will say thanks again.  

So June is mad for me. With my anniversary yesterday (twelve years with my partner) his birthday on Friday, miss 2's in a week and a half and then mine two days after that, it's a madhouse. But then what month isn't these days. Between kindy dropoffs, night work, the usual housekeeping and general crap like sickness and being tired, I barely have time to do much but I still make time to write and when I can't write, I read.
In this pursuit to get published, I'm starting to see some areas that I pour too much energy into and some not enough. It's with a fair amount of sadness that I tell you, I'm going to be blogging monthly from now on. Sometimes, if something happens or there is some news, I will post it but other than that, I will be a bit quieter. There won't be a point to this blog if I don't get a book out there and seen so that is where the energy is going to go for the time being.

Anyway, I just sent my submission to Sourcebooks before I wrote this, I have a few contest entries out and a couple of Agent queries so I'm off to write up a storm for an hour before the light goes on in the family taxi. Have a great long weekend for those downunder (thank God the Queen has her birthday weekend in a different month than her actual coming into the world) and to those who only get the standard two days or less, enjoy!