Shocked!

  I am humbled and greatly appreciative to all of you who have purchased my novel.  I honestly cannot believe it is still selling!  I looked at sales today for the first time in months and I was in shock.  Honestly, this whole writing thing has gone quite out the window for a while.  My almost one year old has been the most demanding, difficult baby EVER and I feel like I am drowning most of the time.
  I have the distinct privilege of having a former English professor for a visiting teacher and she is about done with my "new" ms, so I should be getting it back soon.  It's going to be ugly, I know, but I can't wait to just get it out the door!   I had hoped to publish by the end of the summer.  Fortunately summer in Texas lasts until October.  From now on, you can just call this the "Excuses Blog."

Years later...

  I can't remember what draft I'm on...4th? 5th? but I'm almost done going through it again.  After that I have to make a cheesecake or some other goody to bribe the Jen's into critiquing my manuscript.  When I've got some good feedback, I'll go through it again.  If I don't throw my laptop at the wall at this point, I'll publish it.
  Some people have a really hard time dealing with literature that isn't perfectly edited.  Let me tell you folks, at $0.99 a copy I can't AFFORD to have my work professionally edited and even then; well you've read professional work that needed some serious red pen work haven't you?  It's hard to be objective when you get into a story.  Ten chapters in, you've got the story playing in your head anyway and unless the grammar is really bad, or the story is a bore, you just get caught up in it and forget to be nit-picky.  So here's hoping that the story is good enough that you don't notice all of my errors, and if you do - well that's what refunds are for.
  Eat plenty of greens and have a great day - Cheryl