Susan Adrian

Today I'm going to share one of my favorite songs. When I was in the early stages of writing JENNA, I was hunting around for some new mu...

I started brainstorming JENNA one year ago today. I'd just thrown off the idea of doing historicals the night before, and the character ...

I am absolutely THRILLED to announce that as of this morning I have signed with Janet Reid , of FinePrint Literary Management !!!!! I first ...

So I'm not always confident. Last night just before I went home I printed out (and re-read) my synopsis for Jenna. I don't know what...

Weather : Snowing. The other day was a half-hearted attempt for an hour or so, bitsy flurries just to get an "I can't believe it...

Another busy day! At work I'm putting the final touches on a publication to send it to the printer today. It was a rush-rush project, bu...

Revisions over, and it's off to my beta-readers. WHEW. (I should say this round of revisions over, because I know there will be more aft...

There. Plot revision done. I cut about 7500 words, and added about 5300 new ones back in. That's about 10-12% changeover, and hopefully ...

Guess what, guys? 3300+ words later, I have finished the first draft of Jenna. WoooooooooHooooooooooooooooooooo! (yes, I'm all teary.) T...

{Huge grin} Still not done, though. One more chapter at least.

98%. I think I'll reflect on that for a moment. 90-freaking-8 percent. Though I think I will go over the wordcount some. Not much, but s...

There, got my minimum words in for the day (800), so now I can do a quick post before I get back to real work. I had a great weekend. On Sat...

Self discovery: I get very cranky trying to hold scenes in my head all day. Occasionally I mutter them to myself, to make sure I remember th...

Wow. I got up early this morning to get some writing in while everyone was asleep, and I got about 1000 words before I had to get them up an...

Yay! Almost done, almost done! 55,000 by end of this week (that's 10k in 10 days, folks), and then I only have ~5,000 more to go! {hoppi...

Okay. I need a bitch-slap, fast. Get your arms ready, girlfriends. The writing is going well--you know this. I blather on about it every day...

First: Vicki Pettersson , who is quickly turning into my writing mentor, is a featured author at Barnes & Noble.com, with her own book c...

{GRIN} Yes, it worked. An hour and a half of writing, another 1000+ words. I've done more in the last two days than I usually do in a we...

Ahem. Hubby went out for an hour to a work thing. 2600+ words for the day. Dudes, I had to drag myself away. I plan to try to get up early a...

{Cough} 2200 words today. It won't leave me alone...I've already surpassed Tuesday's goal. Ha!