A Marathon of Luuurve

[jenniferechols]

I'm trying desperately to finish my current YA romance (Blue Crush) so I can start writing a new adult romance (Playing Dirty), but it's hard to find the time. I have a 4-year-old and a editing job, and my husband has started working 12-hour nights 6 nights a week. Plus, I'm running 5 miles a day, training for the 10-K Vulcan Run on November 5

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Re: Love the CP

[anonymous]

Well, you know what they say about not talking about your project publicly until the first draft is completed (might jinx it or something or make you sound like a talker more than a writer)...I tend to believe in that. :-) Maybe I'm just a little superstitious.

But I'll toss a couple brief overviews out here.

I have my next YA romance, where a high school senior falls for her best friend's juvenile delinquent brother and is at risk of losing the only real family she's ever known if their affair is discovered.

(You read the opening scene to this last month, Jenn. :-) )

Then I have my YA paranormal project, which I like to think "high concept"-wise as "The Lovely Bones" meets "The Sixth Sense," where the ghost of a serial killer's victim helps the teen who moves into her house save their mutual friend from the killer and enable his capture.

I also have a couple of adult romance projects on the back burner, but was thinking I should focus on a YA to follow up my YA time-travel WISHING YOU WERE HERE, which I'm currently submitting.

SAINTS & SINNERS (my completed adult romantic suspense) has been put on the back back burner for now. I just finished reading the ARC for Allison Brennan's "The Prey" due out in January from Ballantine (AWESOME BOOK!!! Buy it! I'll be first in line at my Walden's to get my hands on a copy, even though I have the ARC) and it made me realize a whole other set of things I need to fix in my manuscript on top of a list of things I'd already planned on changing. (Reading great books does that to you. hahahaha. Shows you your weaknesses.)

I think I need a longer break from the S&S MS to get a better perspective on it before I attack it with a knife. I'd like to move on and work on something new from scratch that I know will be better from the ground up, rather than continuing to go back over a MS that suffered from a rough foundation to begin with. I still think SAINTS & SINNERS is salvageable, but I don't want to put my energies into it right now.

Cathy

Re: Love the CP

[jenniferechols]

a high school senior falls for her best friend's juvenile delinquent brother and is at risk of losing the only real family she's ever known if their affair is discovered

I really enjoyed the set-up for this. Did you submit it to a contest like you'd planned?

Then I have my YA paranormal project, which I like to think "high concept"-wise as "The Lovely Bones" meets "The Sixth Sense,"

Yeah, this sounds awesome!

I just finished reading the ARC for Allison Brennan's "The Prey"

Her new website gives me the shivers! http://www.allisonbrennan.com. No one deserves success more than she does--she has been so helpful to so many people a little lower than her on the ladder to publication.

I still think SAINTS & SINNERS is salvageable

Of course! I forgot to tell you that Kelley St. John was telling me AGAIN how great it was (for some reason I thought before that she was talking about WISHING YOU WERE HERE). I think as you read and work on different projects, you will have an epiphany about S&S, and you will know with absolute clarity what it should look like.