A New Computer for a New Year

So I finally broke down and bought a new laptop (before my old one broke down and caused havoc!) it's just a Samsung i5, but in addition to providing help for my classes I teach, I purchased Microsoft office 2010. The updated version will help me with formatting this manuscript when the publishing requests come pouring in (ha.)

I need to begin the work of transferring all my old stuff off the Toshiba dinosaur I was using. I am apprehensive a bit because the software I use for marching band drill writing (pyware) isn't cheap and I'm scared of losing it.

If only this book would get a decent assessment- I know it will get published. I will try and give a bit more detail in the new year about theme, characters, and such. No need to tip my hand too soon, but for all the Harry Potter buffs, sadly there are no wizards or witches, but a big secret world does exist within the pages of the book. I will give you more as I begin 2013.

The Blog Genesis

I am now getting so close to making this new book happen I can taste it.  I have been writing for nearly two years the first book in what will become a series of young adult novels.  It seems like it was just the other day I was mapping the thing out, and now it is a manuscript.  The road to this point has been a lot more work than I thought- writing, re-writing, putting together a proposal, re-writing the proposal, creating a synopsis, etc.  Here I thought you just wrote a book and sent it in hoping it gets published - little did I know the flaming hoops one must jump through!

So here's where we are:
1- I have written the manuscript (though I am still re-working it daily)
2- I have an agent
3- I have written & re-written the book proposal
4- I am awaiting an editor's return of the aforementioned proposal
5- Twitter account created
6- Blog begun!

Next step will be providing the proposal to my agent, who will either shop it himself to publishing houses, or will find an agent who is more suited to this genre.  (my current agent is nonfiction/theological/political)

Hopefully this blog will provide someone a sense of comfort if they are in a similar spot as I, or better yet, find a following who will buy my book! Either way, it's a nice outlet for myself as I continue this arduous process of publishing.  Fingers crossed!