July and August have been hugely busy. First I’m the conference chair of NJRW’s conference, so I’m neck deep in planning that. Then, after National I had to dive right back into edits on my book. OMG! Can you say painful. My editor sent me my edits in two parts I worked on an completed part one before Dallas. It wasn’t bad at all. All things considered I got through them relatively quickly. Then part two arrived and I was thinking well I did a little touch up work on this section before I even submitted it so the edits shouldn’t be too bad. UGH! Was I wrong, but it didn’t all come from my editor there was equal parts things I was seeing ans wanted to fix as much as her. We use the track changes function in word for edits and they ask you to do the same with your changes so that it’s obvious what you did. Let me tell you I had sections of that manuscript that were all the in blue which was the color I picked for my change. Finally getting through it and sending it in was such a relief I can’t even begin to tell you. But, I made it through and I’m a stronger person for it. LOL!

So what else has been going on. I got the coolest news from my publisher shortly after RWA. As I’d been editing my word count was slowly but surely eeking it’s way up. I was about 10,000 words shy of the word count to go into print and I was lamenting to a couple of friends about how I really wanted to reach that word count but I just wasn’t sure I was going to get there. I mentioned it to one friend who is also with Wild Rose while at the national conference, the other friend I was talking to about a week or two later. The very next day I get an email from my publisher, they’ve changed the word count requirements and now books in my category will be going into print too! Let me tell you I called the friend back to tell her the news and then I sent the better part of two days randomly breaking into the ‘I’m going into print’ song and dance.

To get a visual it’s sort of like the cabbage patch if you remember that dance, but not as smooth. You sort of make a double fisted punching motion to the right, center, left center. You make a circle away from your body then back in. Suffice it to say my Mother who was watching me do this all weekend was highly amused. I think if I kept going should would have paid me to stop. LOL!

So, Only in Her Dreams will first come out as an ebook then about six months later I’ll be out in PRINT!!! How cool is that? To finally be able to hold my book. It’s quite a rush.