This year I revised Fins Are Forever (the sequel to Forgive My Fins) and went through copyedits and page proofs. I wrote and edited the (secretly-titled) first Medusa girls book. Copyedits for that book are due January 6th so that counts for next year.
My third book, Forgive My Fins, came out in hardcover and Goddess Boot Camp came out in paperback. Forgive My Fins has sold to a number of foreign countries, including Scandinavia, Germany, the UK, Hungary, and Indonesia.
I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time and completed the (extraordinarily rough) first draft of Left Behind. I will tackled revising this in the new year sometime. Maybe.
I worked on several Secret Projects this year. I wrote proposals for Secret Projects IW and RH (which both got shelved for now) and Secret Project LBM (which my agent loves and is sending out after the holidays). I also wrote (and submitted) a Secret Project that I don't remember mentioning (it would be Secret Project GDC) but I'm regrouping on that in January.
|With the always adorable Rosemary Clement-Moore at the RITAs.|
I attended the TLA conference in San Antonio (Oh. My. Gods. was on the TAYSHAS reading list) and the RWA conference in Orlando (I got to present the RITA award for Best First Book).
This was the year of my big fabulous trip. On the first of March I left Oklahoma city for New York with nothing but a small, carry-on-sized suitcase, for a seven week trip around the continent. From New York I took the train to visit family in New Jersey and then up to Montreal, then to Quebec City (where I took a side trip to the Ice Hotel), Toronto, and then onto the Canadian across to Vancouver.
|Cherry blossoms in a rainy Vancouver park.|
I took the bus back into the states to visit good friends in Seattle and immediately decided to move there. (I haven't gotten there yet, but it's on the plan for the coming year.) Then I continued on by train to San Francisco for a week researching the Medusa girls books, which are set there.
Then I rounded out the trip with a flight to Houston to hang with friends and headed over to San Antonio for the TLA conference.
As usual, I spent the summer in Las Vegas with my parents (who are there every summer) and only took a break from the dry Vegas heat to visit the wet Orlando heat for the RWA conference.