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May 20, 2008 on 9:00 am | In Life | No Comments

It’s been an interesting few weeks. I’m sure you realize that writers don’t usually get out much, so the yearly party that is the Romantic Times Convention is something a lot of us gear up for all year. It’s a whirlwind week of craziness when all those carefully laid plans either come to fruition or fail miserably.

I’m happy to say that most of my plans – for shipping/carrying promotional items, travel, hotel arrangements, etc – did rather well. All it all, I think it was a successful conference, but now I look at my calendar and realize it was a month ago and wonder “What have I done with my time since?”

Recovering from the conference is always tough. Like I said, we writers don’t get out much. But this has been worse than usual. Why? I think being on a book deadline has had a lot to do with it. But the good news is that the first draft of the book is done and will be polished and in my editors hands sometime in the next few days.

The other reason is part of the season itself. I’ve been enjoying Spring in my garden, Spring cleaning my house and doing a few signings here and there, which has been a lot of fun, but I don’t really have my “nose to the grindstone” the way I do during Winter months. I’ve also been dragging my feet to accomplish some goals I’ve set for myself, including submitting partials to a few places and earnestly searching for an agent.

But all that is over! You hear me? Over! This is my self-pep talk. Today I’m going to work on those submissions and hopefully grind one out. I’m also going to polish that book and get it fit for my editor. So no more playing around here. I’ll see you all later! Now it’s back to work.