Trying to Keep the Fires Burning…

I’m stuck doing the yucky, boring stuff, again—the stuff I hate doing.

I’ve become hoarse from working on the audio clips — doing and redoing them — and now, I’m sick of hearing my own voice talking at me.

I’m happy to say that there’s an impressive number of clips up — in my humble opinion — from both books, “Silhouette of a Friendship… From the Inside Out” and “Ready or Not — Life’s Coming at Ya”.

The two “Self Defense Against Fear” audio clips are getting the most attention, thus far.  I’m hoping people will stumble over the four “Bullying” clips, as well.

I still have more to do, but I’m burned out on recording, at the moment.  Like I said, I’m sick of hearing my own voice talking at me.

Katherine and I went over the third book in our series of children’s books. 

I’m not happy with it — not at all.  It flows well, moves the story along, and has lots of lessons in it (just like the other two books do), but there’s just not enough adventure in it to keep the reader wanting  to read more…

The most intense piece of the book — the piece I had hoped would bring the book to life — has been moved to the second book.  It fits well in the second, but renders the third book…. well, blah.

I’m putting that third book aside for a while… while I wait for my villains of conflict to come knocking on my imagination’s door.  Besides, there’s no pressure to finish the third book, until the first book is picked up by a publisher. 

In the meantime, I’m going back and searching for more publishers for Silhouette of a Friendship…  I’m sending out queries to the smaller “eclectic” publishers — the ones who aren’t mainstreamed.   Maybe we’ll have better luck with them.

After I've work down that list, I can jump over and start going down the list of children's book publishers.  I haven't made a dent on that list yet.

I’m  also continuing to reach out to local therapists to see if anyone has the time to give us feedback on the teen book.  Thus far, those responding back love the concept, but don’t have the time to review the material. 

I’ll just keep looking and asking…

So, yeah…  I’ve drained the creative parts of my brain and am now stuck doing the yucky, boring stuff, again — the stuff I hate doing.

Bummer!

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