MY WRITING PROJECTS ARE INCREASING.

Several things are happening with all my writing endeavors, and I need to set a definite schedule to get everything done.

1 - I just finished entering all the changes into WORD [word = reduced by approx.
5,000 words. And I now need to add 2/3 chapters in the middle and 2/3 more
at the end.

2 - My fourth manuscript for a children's book is being totally rewritten [story was
not going the way I wanted it to.] This one is the second cat story I'm writing.

3- Got 2 Yound Adult Stories in the beginning stages, and have plans for a fifth
children's book, this one also involving a cat.

If 5 projects underway, I must set up a definite scheduling which also includes my
website and various blogs, as well as following all of my LinkedIn Groups, and managing my own there. My goal is to write at least a total of 5 pages a day.

Hope to give an update in about a week.

BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE

I gotten five pages done for my manuscript for fourth children's book. It should be smooth sailing for the rest of the story.

I'm looking forward to a possible TV appearance next month.

IT HAS BEGUN

I've finally started my manuscript for my book children's book. Hopefully this year I will get enough royalties to pay for my being able at least one of my other manuscripts if not both. At this point I know this fourth book will revolve around a cat [since I am a member of the CWA = Cat Writers of America), which path it will go as far as a story line goes I haven't decided yet. With about 1,000 words written so far I've changed the first four pages several times already. Once I've formulated more of the storyline I should be two pages each day I'm going to work of it. It is suprising how much can be written in a few days by keeping to a committed goal of these two pages a day.

At this time I've completed entering half of the latest set of changes to my paranormal romance manuscript. Once this is completed, one more read through before I begin writting the final four to five chapters of the book. I anticipated that I will at loooong last complete the story by the end of July.

I will then have the entire manuscript proofread [provided I have the funds].

A LOT HAS HAPPEN SINCE MY LAST POST

I did my last post on December 1st. December 4th I had been scheduled to do a booksigning for the Westchest County SPCA. On that I had gotten into my car, drove out of the garage, went about 2 blocks had suffered a major heart attack. Luckily a Public Safety vehicle saw my car moving every slowing, when it stopped, they approached my car and saw I had passed out. They broke the window and opened the door of my car, pulling me out and started CPR, and then used a defibrillator to start my heart again. I then spent about 2 1/2 months in two hospital and a nursing home for rehab.

When I got home in the middle of February, I had over 2,500 emails in my various accounts/screen names. Once that got done I proceeded to re-read and re-edit the manuscripts for my two other children's books.

My children's, "A Lesson My Cat Taught Me" came out as self-published on October
2nd and I started to promote it at the same time. My heart attack brought an end to my promotion efforts which I didn't start again until the beginning of March. I knew I had more email accounts that the ones I had already gone through, and I knew at least two blogs but I could not remember what they were, etc.

Just "googled" myself I found I had this blog today I felt I had to try to do an update on my status. Anyway I just received my first royalty check as a self-publised author...nothing to talk about it's a start.

Anyway, tonight I've got back to entering the changes I've done to my paranormal romance since my last set of revisions, once I've completed that it's back to another set re-reading/re-editing, since I will now be looking at the manuscript with a "new set of eye."

I am a member of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the RWA (Romance Writers of America). Towards the end of last year I also joined the CWA (Cat Writers of America).

Lastly, I am being to formulater a fourth manuscript for a children's book which will be revolving around a cat.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

FOR QUICK BLURP OF WHAT I'M DOING FOLLOW ME AT
www.twitter.com/sawebbooks

I know it's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy writing / editing / rewriting / and entering the changes in WORD on four different manuscripts.
3 children and 1 paranormal/contemprorary romance.

Since my book, "A Lesson My Cat Taught Me", in part deals with pet adoption and rescue I have decided to donate a portion of each sale on CreateSpace to one of five NO-KILL animal shelters. The following is what I've been posting =

Books make a wonderful gift for children, especially when there is something they can learn from reading it. Given the topics which my book, “A Lesson My Cat Taught Me”, book deals with, and this being the holiday season, I will be donating $ 0.70 [70 cents] for each copy of my book sold through www.createspace.com/3447169 , until the end of February 2011.

I have listed 5 animal shelters from throughout the country with their websites, for you to decide where you would like the donation portion from your purchase of my book to go to. In order for the donations to be properly allocated to your selection YOU MUST enter the appropriate code provided next to each shelter in the discount code field when you check out.

The Cat House on the Kings, Inc Parlier, CA
http://www.cathouseonthekings.com SKLUW8D9
[please be sure to watch the YOUTUBE video on the group’s homepage]

North Shore Animal League of America, Inc Port Washington, NY
http://www.animalleague.org JXE954KW

S P C A of Westchester County Briarcliff Manor, NY
http://www.spca914.org 943VBC2K

Dutchess County S P C A, Inc. Hyde Park, NY
http://www.dcspca.org 85ZEYX5U

Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctusry, Inc. St. Pauls, NC
http://www.blindcatrescue.com WLKRK7FL

If for some reason the link does not work, please copy and
paste the link, otherwise “Google” the shelter involved.

GETTING READY TO DONATE

I'm getting ready to donate 70 cents from the sale of each book purchased through CreateSpace.com to one of about 5 animal shelters when the specific code for that
shelter is entered while checking out.

I will be posting the list shortly here and on all the groups I belong to.

CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF MY THIRD MANUSCRIPT FOR A CHILDREN'S

With all the discussion of bullying going on these days, I have decided to change and enhance one of the aspects I had in my story. We have to remember that bullying is not only physical, but can also take many other forms.
So I'm off to the rewrite.