Saturday, September 1, 2007

I'm BA-A-A-ACK!

Didja miss me?

The MS has been tweaked to death and if I tweak one more thing my monitor will explode. Many thanks for my crit group for finding a zillion typos.I humbly wear the crown of the Typo Queen of the Century.

STATS

Title: SAY THE WORD

Genre: Contemporary YA

Word count: 85K

Length of time to write the first draft: 4 months

Original word count: 125K

Length of time to edit: 6 months

Subject matter: self-esteem, family violence, gay/lesbian issues, teen sexuality, friendship, family relationships, grief, suicide

Number of migraines: too many to count

I'm letting it simmer over the weekend and will send it off next week.

LIGHT THE FRICKIN' CANDLES, PEOPLE!

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