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Found a nice new review & general news

I was doing a bit of surfing around today and found a nice new review of Sucks to Be Me at Deep Thoughts. Always gives your day a boost to find a nice review out and about. :)

In writing-ish news, I’m nearly halfway through the sequel. I just modified the outline again since I thought of some cool new bits while I was writing up a synopsis for my editor. I had to write one up because the paperback version of Sucks to Be Me is going to come out later this year and they are going to include some kind of sneak preview of the sequel in the back of the book. So I’ve sent her a synopsis as well as some snippets (first chapter, a sample list, etc.). Not sure yet what will wind up in the paperback, but I’m looking forward to it!

In completely unrelated news, I’ve watched the first 3 parts of Lost in Austen (it’s a 4 parter, so only one more to go). It’s pretty good! If you are a Pride & Prejudice fan, you should check it out. It’s about a modern day London woman who kind of trades places with Elizabeth Bennett into the world of P&P and winds up mucking the story up (more or less).

The mean girl's name…

Well, I did finally pick out the mean girl’s name for the sequel to Sucks to Be Me from all of the suggestions submitted during the Grand Prize contest. I’m not completely sure what her last name is going to be yet, but her first name is…

Kacie!

I was thinking either Kacie Kinsley or Kacie Chanson (both of those last names were also suggestions). I’m pretty sure Kacie’s got friends (hey, what mean popular girl doesn’t?) and I’m thinking maybe Courtney or Delaney there. Or maybe both. I’m not sure how many friends I’m going to really talk about or go in depth on yet…but doesn’t it always seem like mean girls have two lackeys?

The most popular suggestion was actually Scarlett, followed by Bella or Belle. I didn’t want to go with Scarlett since so many people have so many associations with that name. The same for Bella (and besides, someone might think I was trying to go all anti-Stephenie Meyer or something). But they are great names! Actually, all of the name suggestions were great. :-)

Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest and gave me names :-) I’ve saved all of them…who knows, I always need character names!

Mailed!

I mailed a bunch of the prizes off today, so winners start checking your mailboxes early next week! I still have 2 more to mail (including one where I haven’t heard back from the winner yet) and an author to follow up with (that was going to mail out the book directly), so if you don’t get your prize soon, don’t fret yet!

In other news, I’ve been working on the sequel to Sucks to Be Me. Kinda slogging along, but it’s getting there. My biggest problem right now is making sure I don’t go back and fix the stuff that I know needs fixing. I need to just get through the first draft and be done with it!

I do need to go back and re-work my outline too. I’m hoping to get that done tomorrow. I’ve changed a lot of things around — but only in my head. I need to write down the skeleton again before I get off track.