Editing and Edititng Help

A week ago I sent off a short piece-25-30 pages to an editor I hired. Just a brief  piece expanding on the self help emails I have sent in the last few years. It is fascinating to read someone elses ideas on my own work. I have a clear go ahead plan to self publish this small piece on Amazon. I have been working on it again and am planning on sending it to a few readers I know who will give me opinions. Will keep you posted on this and when it is up and running on Amazon. It is interesting to hear someone else's opinion and see their edits --something I find myself doing for others quite often.
Lately I have helped on College essays, blog posts and such and it has been fun to put myself in that mode again. Years ago I taught a Creative Writing course and I am thinking about doing that again in an online forum. That may take awhile to do!

Fallon--Reading Louis L'Amour in 2016

Starting to read Dad's books again was interesting. As I have said before other places, I have not read everything. Heck of a confession but there it is. (check mystoryrightnow.blogspot.com for that.) For a while after his death things were too fresh and Education was like sitting at the table with him. So here I am now having read things here and there over the years, but still not everything. I am a busy mom who is also writing, working for Beau on LL things and making jewelry as a side note to everything else.

I took Fallon off the shelf. There is no rhyme or reason to my choice simply that Beau had always liked it and I hadn't read it yet. I always have a soft spot for the anti hero --a guy who starts out all for himself and despite his best desires ends up completely different. I appreciate this aspect of the book. I also like that the main female character is strong and bright and recognizes when things are a bit off --she reads Fallon like a book but isn't sure what the ending is at first.

A L'Amour, but not a typical western with gunfights and cattle though there are both, this one is about building a town and a society and about ego and how it gets you into trouble.

Moving on, Have to pick the next one right now to read tomorrow while I am waiting on another college audition for my oldest.

Happy Reading!

amazon and facebook--

Author pages are up at both Amazon and Facebook!

Setting up my Author Page at Amazon--should go live in a few days

It's kind of exciting and was one thing I needed to do before beginning to self publish my list of self help books, novels and more. One thing at a time. I will handle things one at a time. Now off to find an editor and a book designer!

Spending Time on my Book

I haven't been blogging as much---the book is finally polishing up nicely. I have been pursuing representation and that is taking my time--along with my husband, kids, family business, dog, summer, etc. So pay a visit to http://mystoryrightnow.blogspot.com to see what I have been up to and to see where things stand. I will get back to it. Soon! Until then I leave you with a view of Montana, in Yellowstone Park and some of Dad's words.

#quotetokeep Da Vinci

"Once you have flown 
you will walk the earth 
with your eyes turned skyward, 
for there you have been, 
there you long to return."

spent the majority of the weekend

 at the Hay House conference---My mind is opening but this morning I had to take time to hang at home, decorate for Halloween and recharge and such. The blog I write most often is
mystoryrightnow.blogspot.com  come for a visit!