Whoop! Whoop! Friday Update!

Whoa! Chill out Garfield! Yes, it's Friday!
Can you believe it's that time again? Friday update peeps! Friday update!

Here goes:

It was a pretty decent week, right? We had the guest blog from MaybeGenuis, aka Steph. You're learning more everyday with the Grammar Police, aren't you?? You know you are!! ;-) And you know learning about me is the highlight of your day. Well, at least pretend for me, k? Thanks!

And....guess what?!?!? When I get to 100 followers, I'm going to have a contest! To bad I don't know what kind yet. Suggestions peeps...I need suggestions!! I do know what some of the prizes will be!! I'm keeping that a secret though. Nothing too big...but I think they are cool ;-)

Hey, you know what? Every time I look up at Garfield's picture, I totally laugh. He looks crazy!

First up I wanted to say thank you to all my followers (new and old). I'm up to 90! WELCOME!!!! You guys are the greatest! If I haven't followed you in return, drop me a line and I will ;-) Also, I've been a little behind on checking out everyone's blog this week. Work (and life in general) has been CRAZY. As soon as stuff chills out a little (like the second week in May) I'll be waaaay more involved.

So let's talk writing updates, shall we?

1. I think I'm going to start querying my 46K romance again. Not very many places to do so, but I thought I might as well give it a shot. I've actually only queried it twice, so one rejection and one request for a full with a rejection ain't too shabby.

2. The edit on BTTB is almost done. Well, it was almost done. Even though I kissed my beta's feet, she pointed a few new errors near the end. Man, I hate this. I love her, but I hate this. It's a romantic suspense and I vow right now to never write another one. Just plain romance from now on. All the suspense pieces are driving me nutty! I wanted to have the rewrite and edit done by the end of April. That goal is totally out the window, so lets strive for the middle of May....maybe? Hopefully? More kissing on the beta's feet probably?

3. My current wip AAG is begging in the corner to be finished. I managed to squeeze another chapter out of it this week (that's about 2,500 words btw). Out of every story I have written, this one is my fav. And since it's halfway done, I'm totally psyched to finish it!

4. Daughters story is still frozen in time and will remain that way until I finish #2.

5. Guess what?!?!? My dogs got their summer haircuts this week!!! Well, two of them did. Then mother nature decided to get all cold again so I had to buy them doggie snuggies so they would stop shivering. Poor little things. But can you believe they actually make doggie snuggies? They are cute. Here's what they look like:

Now, I'm not the type of person who just likes to dress their dogs up for the fun of it. They needed the snuggies to keep warm...they were shivering like crazy! They hate them, but it stops the shivers. I'll post some pictures of the dogs in their snuggies if I can get the boogers to hold still long enough.

6. Okay, you all know how much a brag on my beta, right? I couldn't live without Sarah. I mentioned she got a partial request recently, so I'm going to start doing a count-down for her. Her book is A W E S O M E so I'm sure it will find a good home with the perfect agent in the near future. So, her partial has officially been with the agent for 14 days. They could have it for up to twelve weeks. CHEER HER ON!!!!!!!

Hmmmm....I think that's it. Wow...I'm losing my edge. I need more stuff to talk about :o)

~JD