A request for the first three chapters within a day of sending the query to a very cool agent.

Fingers are crossed!  All good energy sent along the way is much appreciated! 

Phew!  37 weeks along and baby is officially full term!  Of course, now that I'm here, baby seems content to hang out so we could be traveling companions for awhile yet.  Each day is a new surprise ( Read more... )

If you are interested, Dirt's new beginning is here.

The smoke is still covering the sky and smothering trees.  We haven't seen stars for weeks.  The fires are miles and miles and miles away but this smoke just settles and stays.  For the first week, everyone heeded the warnings and stayed indoors but we are on week three now of this mess.  Anika and I are swimming again, though we come in after an ( Read more... )

Best wishes going out to firefighters and those on the front lines of these CA wildfires. Lightning storms over the weekend triggered over a hundred fires.  Wait . . . I just searched for the latest info and it is not a hundred, it is over 800 fires!  Yikes.  No wonder our yard looks like we have eight campfires going at once, smoke obscuring the ( Read more... )

We saw Kung Fu Panda last night.  Anika enjoyed it a lot.  And it was a fun family flick.  Animation is so incredible now- I was capitivated by the beauty of the scenery and lighting more than the story at times :)

Before the movie was a preview for Igor, about an assistant who dreams of being a mad scientist.

It was different enough, but enough to ( Read more... )

So June is my month for queries.  All school year I tell myself, in June I will get back on track, in June I'll dance the agent-dance.  And now it's June ( Read more... )

 
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Thanks to everyone for making me feel welcome while I stumble through learning this community! I feel very fortunate to meet all of you and get to know the many stories being woven around here. Exciting stuff! It will take me a little while as I have an active four year old daughter and I teach kindergarten homestudy (which is wrapping up for the ( Read more... )