Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Cupid on Another Mission

Saturday, December 08, 2012

Life...It Be Crazy!

So, the world tilted on its ear when I decided to self-publish. In a good kind of way. I'm busy, busy, busy, which is fine, but don't drop by my house unannounced, I won't let you inside. LOL. We aren't up to "Company Standard."

Okay, so here's what's going on...

Still running the contest (see Friday's blog post.)

I'm working on a new website, Books! Books! Books! where I'm currently offering FREE promo ops for authors.

The Marriage Charade is live on Smashwords AND Amazon. With this, I now have 3 novels available, and boy, does it feel good to be "out there" again.

I have several projects in the works - plans to republish, anthology style with Sherry, our Pops' Girls novels and novellas come January, going to republish Cupid on a Mission in February, along with an anthology with Sherry - 2 new novellas featuring Cupid from Cupid on a Mission. The anthology will be called Cupid on Another Mission. AND, I have a couple other new novels in the works.

Santa, please send me a clone for Christmas.

I've also applied for a job, and am waiting to hear about an interview. Fingers crossed.

Busy = Happy, and it's a great feeling.

Here's a great quote from Judy Garland, perfect for writers of romance. Great notion for the heroes and heroines we write.

And last, but not least, a great reminder to all my writer friends.

Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe