Jenn Kelly: Author

Editing #2

Do you know how bizarre it is to try and edit book 2, while thinking about marketing book 1 and planning book 3?  I have forgotten what book 1 is about. Am trying to polish and perfectify (yes, I know it’s not a word!) book 2 and jotting down ideas of book 3 (ie: shipwreck and green-tea lemonade).

Am sending edit #2 to lovely Kathleen today as she said she would read it today. But she might be busy. And I will have to be tormented longer to see if it’s good enough. I mean, I like it. At least I think I do.  Oh, I need opinions!!! Am tempted to send manuscript to friends to get feedback.  Would I get into trouble? No idea.

Received email from radio station about interview soon.  Tres exciting…

Reading: Anne’s Dream Home or something and something that won a Newberry.

Listening to: Les Gorman’s music.

Drinking: chai latte! of course!

Watching: the hot sun outside

Getting itchy…

There is so much waiting going on.

I’m waiting for my shipment of pre-released books, which were supposed to be here, I think, last week.

I’m waiting for the release of Jackson Jones.

I’m waiting to be finished writing… no that didn’t sound right.

It’s summertime. Besides the obvious gardening, swimming, lounging, gardening, eating that happens in summer, there is also the fluff.

I don’t mean dandelion fluff. I mean chick lit fluff. 

Where you sit back in the sunshine with sunscreen on and you just read. And it makes no difference if you’re interrupted or if the book accidentally gets wet because it’s just chick lit fluff.

Oh, how I miss the fluff! I’ve tried reading Harper’s and Vogue and InStyle, but it is not scratching the itch.

While at Chapters today I noticed a ‘Buy three get one free’ sign. Oh how I longed to peruse the fluffy lit that called me in its soft voices. ‘Come read me! A novel about a divorced woman who is failing at her job and gets jam in her shoe and meets the CEO and he’s gorgeous but she can’t date him but then they fall in love and she quits to become an interior designer and they get married’.  Oh the temptation! It’s worse than tazo chais!

But I was good. I went straight to the kids section and picked out, ‘Robinson Crusoe’, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, ‘Treasure Island’ and the ‘Benedict Society’.  See a theme?

Next book.

Listening to: hm…nothing?

Watching: SYTYCD

Reading: Alice in Wonderland

Eating: tonight? grande decaf soy no whip no drizzle caramel frappucino and sushi. but not together

Other Reasons I Hate Waiting…

I’m writing in this colour today because I am rather sick.  On the second day in McDonough, I managed to catch a lovely cold. I wasn’t terribly effective at serving at all the projects but I did manage to get one done. The rest of the time was spent being a gopher and taking pictures. And trying to get better. Only now am I getting better, what with the wonderful invention of antibiotics and Advil *knock you on your butt and remove all pain* medecine. Ah, I love it.

So many things are happening with my book and I hate that I can’t reveal any of it because it’s not official. All that I can say is:

1- they loved it at the book conference and judging by their comments, it should do well!

2- someone else is interested in it. I can’t tell you anything else.

3- my editor and I have had many interesting conversations. I guess I’m allowed to say that it looks like I’ll be able to write a sequel.

4- the cover is finished. And while it’s not quite what I had in mind, it’s better than what it was originally.

I still hate waiting. Oh if God were to ever teach me anything, it would be about patience. Every single day my patience is tried. Sometimes it does well, sometimes it is left wanting.

My brain is fuzzy. I’m going to sleep.

Watching: last week’s Lost. Too tired to watch this week’s. Maybe tonight.                                                                                                                                               

Listening to: my fan to make white noise while I nap.

Reading: Swinging on a Star by Janice Thompson.