Writer's update: Casse NaRome

  So my current WIP is going very well.  I am in the process of a CP and Beta Reader search; it's harder than you would imagine.  I have my agent list that I will query as soon as I start my 2nd draft but I can't start that draft until I do 2 things.  The first and most important thing...finish first draft.  *head desk*  I am almost done.  2nd thing is get another set of eyes on this baby!  Let me tell yall something, family member's make horrible betas.  My mom makes me feel like friggin Anne Rice (um I wish!  She is one cool ass Catholic Chick, right?)  But Mother's and big Sister's are not an ideal beta reader.  Daddy's would be uncomfortable reading their daughter's writing about peen-atration. ;-p
  But in cooler news, I have registered for RWA in Nashville for this summer and today I will reserve the hotel room.  Yay, if anyone else is going let me know okay? 
  Also in more cooler news, I entered Winter Rose contest last month.  I also joined Yellow Rose.  It is a Texas branch of RWA.

  Thanks for letting me share my news but niece wants me to cuddle & baby her, yall know how I adore her.  So I will leave you with one question:

Read any good books lately?

  Casse

p.s did yall enjoy the eye candy :-p  thats Aidan Turner.

New Year reflection

For as long as I remember books have been apart of my life. My siblings and I would sit inside on a beautiful summer's day in Alaska. And believe me Alaska has gorgeous summers. We would spend all day reading silently to ourselves or listening to my second oldest brother read Witches or One Fat Summer which were two of his favorite books. We'd unwittingly be up reading well past midnight. (It is the land of the midnight sun.)
I also remember writing being apart of my life forever. My big sister and I would get diaries for christmas, usually two. We'd sit there and fill it up that day or sometimes have all week writing sessions. We weren't writing real stuff from our lives but make believe; we were storytelling. Sometimes we'd do a crossover, where the same event happened in both our books! It was fun. I'd write my characters' pov and she'd do hers. Every few hours we'd swap journals and we'd read one another's and giggle.

That seems like yesterday but also another lifetime ago. Life has gotten so hard. I want to promise in 2010 to simplify things but it would be a lie. I can still remember when it dawned on me that my words had power and I had a way to share my soul and lay it out for the world to see, on paper. I was 13, in front of my teachers desk. She held a paper in her hand and asked, "did you really write this?" I remember saying yes ma'am. It was a poem for a school project. Mrs Toni Andres entered my friend Lynne and I into a contest, THAT SUMMER I received a book in the mail, saw my words on a page and my name printed underneath. Nothing was simple from that day forward. My poems have been published but this is the year that I Make Dreams Come True, I Want A Novel...in PRINT.
How about you? What do you want in 2010?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
CASSE

About me...well sort of. Idea I'm working on.

Since I have had time on my hands with no reliable internet connection I have had more time for work. I was doing research for ALL my books. Which all include angel research. Angels are my 'thing'. Its my schtik I guess and I'm not jewish. Well during this research I came across a bound rough draft of a novella I wrote to introduce my Desecration Series that I want to write. Its called Born Through Desecration. Its short think Alpha Omega Novella in On The Prowl by Patricia Briggs that's sorta what I did way back in 2003 when I wrote this. I have a bound copy with handwritten edits and a pdf copy no edits. I am going to post the prologues in the next couple days. If you read it and think its something you are interested in reading. You are welcome to the bound (very) rough draft or the pdf file. Just keep in mind that, though I already started the next one in the series, Daughter of Desecration it may never be finished. Since its a dead project and only write it for me. But if you really like it and it is torturing you not knowing I would consider trying to finish DOD to give to limited people. Thats just an idea I'm working with. Death Knows My Name's Hero appears in Daughter of Desecration. I fell for him and thus had to give him his own story. Actually he hijacked the story from another guy.