Return from Authors After Dark

Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:05 PM

I'm back from Authors After Dark in Philadelphia, and I'm absolutely whipped into the ground. Hours after hours of bumper to bumper traffic in the pouring rain and fog. The convention was awesome. Interesting and fun stuff happened. I also had laryngitis during the event. Fortunately when I lost my voice on Friday, I had no panels to speak on. By Saturday, it was back but scratchy. The ride home knocked the socks off me.

As for the goals, I may have lost a little weight not wanting to eat much with my sore throat. I don't recommend losing weight this way. Also getting sick hasn't helped with the writing. I did manage to write the beginning to a new story. I edited a little.

On the flip side of the author's life is meeting people which is a blast. I met a lot of people at the convention and booksigning. More on the happenings later.

--Susan

Conferences, Writing, and more

Posted on April 9, 2017 at 12:55 AM

Hi Everyone, Right now I'm doing a lot of work. I have a dozen outlines for books, but one is in writing mode and that is Book 3 in the Arnhem Knights of New York series. I would have loved to say it's finished, but it's not. The history in it is immense! So is the romance! Getting used to another time and another country is quite the experience. I'm setting up my conferences. So far I have Confluence in Pittsburgh in August and Fall in Love with New England Romance Readers/Author Conference in October. Confluence is a science fiction and fantasy conference. Fall in Love with New England is the cozy and happy readers/authors conference with great panels, time to hang out with authors, make new friends, great booksigning, and fun events. If you love romance and want to hang out with us, be sure to register before it fills up. Here are their links: Confluence 2017: http://parsec-sff.org/confluence/ Fall in Love with New England: http://fallinlovewithnewengland.com/ I am trying to eliminate unnecessary sugar from my diet. It's hard. Have you read labels? In the US, we put sugar or corn syrup into almost everything. So i'm trying to eat fresher and have no desserts. (I will make an exception for the Fall in Love conference for a desert.) Right now I'm setting up Easter baskets for my grandchildren. How is everyone else? -Susan

Goals & Compromises

Posted on June 4, 2011 at 6:29 PM

I'm going to be writing everyday or almost every day. I have some goals to work on. You might have the same ones or different ones. Let's help each other. How? With encouragement. Goal 1: I would like to lose weight. I lost weight and gained it back again. Frustrating, isn't it? I'm going to exercise every day. I will post here what exercise I did. If you have this same goal, you are welcome to post what exercise you did. Goal 2: I'm going to write a thousand words a day. That's words on a novel or novella. I not counting the words I post on a blog. i will post word count here whether I make it or not. Goal 3: I needed to buy a new sofa. Mine... well, it sagged. Today my husband and I bought a new sofa. The one we really wanted was too big for the space. Sigh. But we compromised and bought our second choice. I wanted a great sofa to put up my feet and type like a maniac in comfort. It would also be comfy if a friend wanted to stay over and sleep on it. So GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!

This is how it works. You are welcome to post your goals and how you're doing. I will be, and together we'll encourage each other.

What's happening right now? I interviewed paranormal romance author Rebecca Royce at http://nightsofpassion.wordpress.com Rebecca's running a contest, so if you want to enter visit the site abovean d follow the directions. I've also given a prize to the Night Owl Reviews Summer Web Hunt. Find out all about it and all the other prizes from a lot of authors at http://www.nightowlromance.com/nor/Pages/Hunts.aspx

--Susan

Goal 1: Kickboxed this morning Goal 2: In-progress