So you might be wondering what I've been doing for almost two weeks, since I last posted.
Not a whole lot.
Of course that's not exactly what you want to hear, right? You want to think that I'm so busy that I just don't have time to post. But that's just not the case.
I basically have taken some time off writing.
I sent my YA book, working title THE LEGACY, off to my agent and was waiting for word from him. It didn't take too long for him to get back to me. He used the words "wonderful" and "delightful" and I couldn't be happier, especially since the first version of this manuscript didn't get such a glowing review (not even close) and I had to totally rewrite it. I'd been nervous, especially since I added something to it that I wasn't quite sure I'd be able to pull off. But I did. And I'm a happy camper.
Problem is, now that it's going out to editors, I have to start thinking about my next project. So we're back to what I've been doing for the last couple of weeks. Trying to figure out just what I want to do next.
I have an idea for an adult thriller, but I need to do some serious research. That shouldn't be a problem, you might think, for a former journalist, but this sort of research will be a little complicated and perhaps confusing since it's not exactly my field. And the research needs to happen before I can fully figure out the plot and the characters.
It makes me tired just thinking about it.
So when I was walking to my bus the other day after work, something else popped into my head: the voice of a fifteen year old girl who's having some trouble with her mother and then she meets a boy. And that meeting changes her life. Sure, it sounds like every other boy meets girl coming of age story, doesn't it? Well, there's a twist that I'm not ready to reveal yet. The more I heard her tell her story, the more I began to think that this could be my next book.
I truly had no plans to write another YA, but it might be the natural course of things right now. And my agent thinks the idea "is promising."
So today is my official I'M BACK day. Here, and on my laptop.
What have you been doing the last couple weeks?
2 comments:
Welcome back, Karen! I must read your YA book when it comes out.
I was celebrating my birthday the weekend. LOL. Thanks for your birthday wishes on my Facebook!
Hey Alice! Happy birthday again! Will keep you posted on my YA book. No one's picked it up yet, so just keeping fingers crossed that someday it will be a real book.
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