update and answers

A few answers to questions posted in the comments section of the cover post:

1. Yes the book will be a hardcover release. And yes, you can pre-order it on Amazon!

2. We dropped the “Confessions” part of the title, because it’s way overused these days. In fact, there have been articles about how that title has completely jumped the shark. (Can’t locate the link at the moment, but trust me, there was an article, and I read it, and I felt dumb.) I’m *very* happy with the change. However, the character in my book actually DOES have secrets to keep and she’s confessing them (which is kind of the point) unlike, say, a Teenage Drama Queen or whoever else might come up with the urgent need to confess something. But I think Secret Society Girl is a stronger title, and she’s still confessing, even if the title doesn’t say so. This way, it doesn’t get lost in the enormous sea of whatever other confessions are hitting the market.

3. Why yes, you can pre-order it on Amazon! Thanks for asking!

So it’s Day Nine of NanuNanu (sorry, couldn’t resist), and, as you can see from the sidebar, I’m a bit on the behind side of “doing well”.

Some of my friends are truly trucking. Others have quit. Others are busy experimenting with bizarre methods of food preparation (C.G., babe, I love you, but I’m not letting you near my steaks. Or my popcorn. Or my pasteurization).

Real life is intruding, and more than that, writerly business. I finally got Secret Society Girl off into copy edits. I wrote my first newsletter. I judged contest entries. Etc.

Monday night, I attended another “write-in.” I was giving the form one more chance, since I got more writing done on the metro home from the last one than I did the entire time I was there. This one worked much better. I wrote 1800 words. So that worked well. But in general, I’ve been majorly sucking. Howver, 6k in a week and a half is still pretty good for me. It would mean this book would be done in less than four months. That would be a record. So I’m going to keep at this NaNo stuff, understanding that I might never meet my goal… but that I can write novels, and I do write them, and maybe, due to this exercise, I’ll be writing them more quickly.

Plus, I’m sick as a dog. Did I mention the sick as a dog part?

PS: The Knight Agency is open again for general submissions. Ready, set, query!

PPS: Finally got my hands on a copy of Pretties. So when I go home later today, sick as a dog, I’ll have some comfort in the form of preternaturally beautiful futuristic teenagers. Wait, that came out wrong.