Book One of my Squad Treble Series Limited Truth: A Squad Treble Novel will be FREE tomorrow, October 1st! Dive into a series that has been compared to Divergent and the Hunger Games before book 3 is released in December!

While I'm still talking about all things Squad Treble, one of my beta readers finished reading WAR DISTORTION and I can't wait to read through her notes. She has already given me some great advice, some of which I had already been thinking about and others things that hadn't crossed my mind. I can't wait to see the manuscript to see what else she thinks/recommends. Hopefully I can work on this quickly to keep with my deadline. This beta doesn't know me in real world so I feel like she will give me more unbiased advice, so glad I found her!

It's probably good that I'm going to have some edits and tweaks to work on because I'm having writer's block this week! It's not the worst I've ever experienced, but it's a bit frustrating. I have written about 2500-3000 words since it's come on, but when I'm in the groove I can write that much in a single sitting. Balancing my job, taking care of my son, and just feeling a little burnt out are probably the factors. There isn't really a rush to release book 4 (I'm hoping late spring 2021?) but I thought it might be good to start. Hopefully it will go away soon. 

Finally, I got an AWESOME review recently. I can't wait to use it for promo stuff. Makes up for a reviewer DMing me all typos she's found in Limited Truth when I thought I went through and fixed them all. (Super helpful, just embarrassing)

I think I'll leave it here for now. Fingers crossed that I get some sales tomorrow!

​Kay
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,t's Monday again...

WAR DISTORTION is done! I finished polishing it over the weekend and now it's off to 3 to 4 betas before I send it to at least one person to proofread. After that I have to format it and get it ready for release. Right now I think I'm still doing good with my deadline. Woot!

I started playing around with Book 4 (Going to keep the title a secret for now), but I really think I need to outline it. I know generally what is going to happen, (I've had this story in my mind for years now, it almost feels bittersweet to finally be writing it on paper) but some of the minor details have changed and I want to make sure I give this finale justice. I'm not really feeling it tonight...but hopefully in the next day or two I'll feel differently.

Semi Sweet got a form rejection from that agent. :( I've got a list of others, but I just haven't felt motivated with school and other writing stuff to tweak my query and make a synopsis which is what many agents want on their submission websites. Kind of feeling a bit jaded about the whole thing. Not ready to give up on it getting picked up traditionally yet, but letting it simmer as there is no pressing need to get it published or picked up right now, Squad Treble takes precedence.

That being said, I made a promo thing for Semi Sweet that I don't hate.

Other than that, getting acclimated with teaching my new grade, accepting the fact that my book baby is almost done, my real life baby is one year old, and that I might have gained the quarantine fifteen. (I think seeing myself on camera is making it seem worse than it really is but...ugh)

Until next time,

Kay

It's time for your weekly update. Also the first day of school is in less than twelve hours...cue the tears.

Not too much to report, but it's important!

First, I participated in my first PitMad event and...it was kind of a let down. I had many people retweeting so that was good. I even had people commenting on my pitches saying that they loved the concept so that was even better. Likes are what you want though and...I only got one that wasn't people who didn't know the rules. The press that liked my pitch ended up being a vanity press and I'd just self publish instead of taking that avenue. As I stated last week, my pitches were pretty vanilla (not even trying to make a baking joke) but I'm proud that I was able to submit something. We'll try again in December depending on what happens in the next few months because...

I sent a query to a dream agent of mine! AH! She specializes in romance, and her Manuscript Wishlist wanted contemporary and characters that have major growth by the end of the book and I feel like SEMI SWEET checks all those boxes. She requests a lot of fulls so I'm crossing my fingers. I made the mistake of sending it on a holiday weekend so I'm hoping I'll hear back (PLEASE GOD, THUS THE TITLE OF THE POST) tomorrow or the next day. I'll be scrambling to send a full, but I get of work at 2ish. AHHH!

In other news, still editing WAR DISTORTION but I've got less than 100 pages so that's cool. Looking for Beta Readers and Proofreaders. Send me a message in the Contact Me Section if you are interested. 

Alright, I'll leave it here for now.

Kay

 Hey!

It's your weekly update! And I must confess it's been quite the week in the "real world". I nearly had my Kindergarten classroom ready to go when I was asked to switch to 3rd and 4th grade. I have been vying for this position since May so while I'm thrilled to have FINALLY gotten it, nearly all my free time has been moving my room again. It's gorgeous though, might be the best classroom setup I've ever done! 

I also have recently gotten back into the Sims after not playing it since high school. It's been a mindless way to decompress after all this back to school prep and covid craziness. I found out about this thing called the 100 baby challenge (You aim to have 100 babies in as few generations as possible) I'm at 2/100 so far. I'm definitely a better real life mom than a Sim mom, thank goodness. I've attached a hilarious YouTube series below if you are interested in all the work that it entails. LOL.

Okay, so let's actually talk about writing.

I am editing WAR DISTORTION! I made over 200 notes on what needs more detail and tweaking. I'm trying to do two chapters a day in the hopes that I will be done in the middle of the month and ready to have some beta readers look at it. Trying to be realistic that I'm probably going to be busy next week once school starts officially.  I've done 4 out of 21 chapters so far.

PitMad is Thursday and OMG I'm not ready...like I need to write my Query letter and synopsis tomorrow (No Sims until that's done! LOL) I also have to be in a meeting most of the day Thursday as well so I'm going to have to strategically send those tweets. (Or take a pee break or something) Going in with low expectations that way I can be pleasantly surprised or learn from it. I plan on Querying Semi Sweet no matter what. I should have more to report on this next week. :)

Finally, I need to STOP getting cool ideas when I need to finish series and do things that are going to make me money. I have another idea for a stand alone New Adult Romance. Maybe I make it a series? Heart Breathings talked about various stories that take place in the same world. Maybe it could be another story in Denver? Too bad I live in CONNECTICUT! Haha...Apparently a trip is in my future. In the meantime, I'm going to make notes so I can come back to it.

I am trying to not get depressed, but I'm seeing all my writing time about to die off and I want to CRY.

Pray for me,

​Kay