Hey everyone! I know it’s been FOREVER since I’ve actually posted about myself, so I think it’s time to update everyone.
After nationals, I got down to the nitty gritty work and I finished edits for my novella I sold to The Wild Rose Press under my pseudonym ‘Tess Quinn.’ I have been diligently working on the second novella in the trilogy and I am a little over halfway done with that.
I have also been working on writing articles and workshops only because I think it’s a great way to use all this research I’ve done and apply it to something useful. My article ‘What I Learned from Nora Roberts,’ a piece about the writing advice I picked up at nationals, was published in the Pocono Lehigh Valley Romance Writers, LERA, Western New York Romance Writers, Central Florida Romance Writers & Red River Romance Writers August News Letter. I was sooooo excited about that! I have another one I’m submitting to the Pocono Lehigh Chapter for the September newsletter about query letters. That’s pretty basic so I don’t think others will pick it up but hopefully my local chapter will. I am also submitting an article to the RWR (Romance Writers Report) which is taking a bit of time up. More on that soon. I have two workshop proposals drawn up for nationals 2010. I don’t know if either one will get picked up, but at least I’m going to try, right? 
On the contest circuit, I had recently done an ‘Eyes Like Stars’ Contest where I was giving away a copy of the arc to a reader who commented about her favorite theater moment. Reader Lindsay Bryde was my winner!! Yeay Lindsay! The copy is in the mail and you should receive it shortly.
I’m hosting another contest so stay tuned for that one! I’m giving two more arcs away and if you want some free books, remember to stop by again (I think I’m posting contest info tomorrow).
Other than that, I saw Julie & Julia yesterday which was really cute. A bit too long, but it was still really cute. Amy Adams is a really sweet person and I totally went to the Julie/Julia Project blog just to check it out. I then went to Julie Powell’s new blog and read like, 20 posts before I had to stop. What a great idea! I wish I thought of that. lol.
I did see an Indian movie recently,Love Aaj Kal, and even thought it was a bit self indulgent, I liked it because there were some great one liners in there. Even though Saif Ali Khan has a tendency to be a bit ugly if he isn’t shot at the right angle, I still think he’s a hottie. So, to cap my extremely long blog post about updates and articles and workshops, and edits and movies, here is some sexiness that should have come up yesterday but that I wasn’t able to post due to family friends visiting and a fabulous writer’s meeting I had to attend. Enjoy!
