Update....again???

Bet you thought you were actually going to get to read something, didn't you?  Sorry.  I must confess that I am inundated here with my life.  I have come to a crossroads in the book publishing arena.  I have one price.  200 books will cost me $2000 and 500 will run $4,000, neither amount is on hand at the present time.  Guess I could mortgage the house, and that still remains an option.

I have submitted it to a couple publishing companies and I can always hope that one of them will be taken and they will do the publishing thing for me. 

In the meantime I have started the next novel and am now on page three of it.  Life is going to slow down here soon and I will be able to concentrate.  In the meantime, hang in there cause I am wanting to write it as bad as you are wanting to read it!!

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Update

Well, kiddies, I know you are getting tired of waiting here, but bear with me.  I have been really busy.  I have gotten Chapter One...Loose Ends to the printer and am waiting for a price.  I have also been making character notes on the next installment.  I think this next one will be really interesting.  May not be as gripping as the last one, but the nutso's are still alive and well in my head. 

So give me a couple weeks and then summer will be here and you will not be able to read anyway cause you will be off doing the summer things. 

And look down there at my Dickie Ad.  I wonder if that thing keeps blinking when I am not looking?  Reminds me of a song.  Here you go.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXD9-1mLBY&ob=av2e

I do love technology!

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Oh, Burger King! I cannot beleive you did that!

I am thinking this is a real good reason NOT to go to our local Burger King!  JMHO

 

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What am I doing?

If you wonder where we are on the book, I will tell you.  I picked it up last night and am now working on the corrections. My "partner in crime who shall currently remain nameless" is checking into the art work for the cover and a few other things.  That woman is a godsend and where would I be without her?

I think the title has been extended to Chapter One...Loose Ends.  That was her idea and I think it fairly well describes what went on there.  The Chapter One part was a vital title and this will make it easy to find on the New York Best Seller List.  And since I left myself wide open for the next one, I will call the next one Chapter Two...But This Is the Part I Have Not Completely Decided On. 

So there you have it.  As the dwarfs would say "Hi, Ho!  Hi, Ho!  It's off to work I go!"  Be back to fill you in on progress next week.

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Update on what is going on here.

I know you are wondering just what I am up to so let me fill you in on that.  My Chapter One is currently being edited and should be finished by the first of next week.  My editor who shall be known as only Jeanne, is giving me pointers and has agreed to travel with me to my book signings and things like that.  But I am getting ahead of my self. 

Then I will deal with a publisher who has to do formatting and all that stuff.  I need to design a cover and I am still stuck on what to name the silly thing.  I have been assured that if I stick with Chapter One , and then name the next one Chapter Two, and so forth that people will get confused and think it is all the same story.  I am comfortable with the One, Two, Three thing, but I guess a nice catchy title is in order.  I am toying with Sins of the Mothers, Sins of the Sons.  Course other suggestions have been, Up the Tree, Down the Hole, and Oh, Mamma!  That is only a few that have been tentatively offered.

In the meantime, my little mind is working on the next book.  Course I am torn between keeping Meg on the farm or sending her into town.  Staying has all kinds of possibilities with the advent of Fred having actually taken a shower.  But so does the relocation to Denver and the detective there.  And then there is the son in California.  California with its balmy breezes and earthquakes and the gay night life could prove a real challenge.

Got any ideas?  I would love to hear from you.  loumercer3@aol.com  will get you right to me.  Just be sure you put Chapter One in the subject line or you are off to the spam folder and never, never land.  Nothing encourages the writer in me more than  knowing that some one is out there reading my missives and actually liking them!  Just a ham at heart!

So, until later, I remain, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered so to speak.

Good Morning!!!

On gossamer wings and a silver tome,
of moonbeams bright
My dreams will come.

I stood on a precipice deep and wide,
And dreamt of leaping
to the other side.

Lou Mercer.....unknown date

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told you I was cleaning house. found this.

It was with love that I set him free;
With faith that he would return to me.

Then vainly I walked where I had seen him go,
For a sign of life or a sort of glow.

One month; then two and finally three,
Then several months later a speck I see.

So with heart all a twitter I ran to the sight;
But hold it there, something ain't right!

For there on the seat where I should be
Sat a frowsy blonde with a kid on her knee.

So let this be a lesson to you;
Got a man-stick like glue.

For a  lot's to be said of the words in kind,
"out of sight is out of mind."

Lou Mercer....some time in my delusional past!

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