Post-infection post :D

I finally defeated the nasty bug that immobilised me for a week. Now it’s time to catch up on all the stuff that piled up while I was spending time in bed. Don’t you find it incredible, how much work to do can gather during a week of being sick? When you’re healthy it seems that there’s not much you’re doing of normal everyday stuff. And then one week of lazing in bed and BAM! You’ve got tons of things that need your immediate attention! It has to be one of Murphy’s Laws! But enough whining, time to get back to writing! 

Revisions and other stories

Hurray, hurray! I got my first book back, with editor’s notes, for revision. Is it weird that I’m so excited? Or, that I even love those notes? Seriously I feel like overexcited puppy whose owner just gave him some attention. After all bad attention is better than no attention, right? Anyway I’m almost giddy to get to editing. HOW WEIRD IS THAT? I normally hate editing! But maybe that’s just because it is my first book? Maybe it will pass and with the second one I will be all blasé about it? I don’t know and I don’t really care. I’m HAPPY!

Now I just need to decide: should I start revising immediately, or is it better to wrap up the chapter of my second book before I go back to revising the first… Decisions, decisions. Oh so hard is life of an author… And seriously I do have a busy schedule, writing, revising, and working two part time jobs… And packing my stuff for a move. And trying to work on a portrait I decided to draw as a gift…

Yeah… Overambitious much? That’s me!

Anyways, I’ll keep you posted on how my revising goes.

Bye, Sophie.

Greetings

Hello everyone!

I'm just starting my adventure with being an author. My first book is due to come out in mid-October and I'm about 13k words in my second one. All the while about five or six different stories fight in my head for the right to being written first. It's... interesting, that's for sure.

The whole thing with having my book actually published took me by surprise. English isn't my first language, so I've been a bit apprehensive with sending my story to the publisher. I worried that they’ll “laugh in my face” (metaphorically speaking of course) and very politely tell me to get lost. That wasn’t the case though and with huge dose of surprise and disbelief I found an email in my inbox that my book has been accepted to be published.

I’m ecstatic, of course and can’t wait to see it come true. It still doesn’t seem real to me. In the meantime I work on the second book in the series, started Facebook and Twitter accounts, created blog, and all of this while juggling two jobs and getting ready to move to a different house. I’m still in kind of a daze and wonder if anyone will actually read my book. I guess I’ll have to wait and see…

I’ll keep you posted on my journey to become a real author…