Coming Soon - WHITE MAGIC

White Magic is almost ready! Can't wait! Here's what will be on the back cover.I think.

Fifteen year old Lily has a secret, has kept it hidden for as long as she can remember.

What teenager wants to be shunned for daring to be different? And wanting to become a witch is as different as it gets.

While other little girls dream of being princesses, that has never crossed Lily’s mind. Her only dream is becoming a witch.

She has her own spell book, none of witch - oops, none of which actually work, but it's her very own, and she's spent years building it up. She's tried to give up on her dream time after time, but it's impossible. It's part of who she is.

Lily's friends end up in the hospital, one after another, deathly sick. While Lily’s dream comes true and she’s gifted with powerful magic, is it worth the price she may be forced to pay?

Good battles evil.

White Magic fights Dark Magic.

Teddy and I

I'm back.  Tired, but here I am.
In a messy house.  Three out of four kids still awake - not just awake, wired.  And I'm ready for bed.
Sad.  But true.
So instead of putting two of them to bed, here I am on the computer.
But I'm so excited!  In my last post, I wrote about torturing - I mean, getting help from Tina.  Well, since then I haven't asked for anything!
Proud of me?  I am!
Of course that doesn't mean I wasn't pestering someone.......
Nicholas, my darling nephew of seventeen years.  Yup, I'm admitting it.  I pestered him.  I can write it here, because if I say it to his face I would never hear the end of it.
He is the illustrator (and a wonderful one!) for my Teddy and I series.  We finally have the Christmas one finished!  Okay, not really finished, but drawn.  So close............
Tomorrow, I would like to finish them, and the text, and Sunday I would love to upload it for sale.
Dreaming.............Sigh................But such a nice dream.
Tomorrow I will probably have to fight for the computer just to check my emails.  Sad obsession but obsession it is.  So to sit here for hours?  On a Saturday?  One computer?  Four kids?
Not going to happen.
But maybe by Tuesday, which means I'll be back to torturing Tina for her computer expertise.  And I'll leave Nick alone until Wednesday.
But it pays to know people doesn't it?
Here's one un-finished picture from the book.

IF I can figure out how to post it.............

I DID IT!  I'M SO EXCITED!
And isn't it a cute picture?
I love the bright colors for the little kids to look at.
And I can't wait until the book is put together and I can hold it in my hands.
Dreaming again..................
But hey, I'm allowed to dream.  Right?

So this is me.  My very first blog.
I am, technically, and forever, a stay-at-home mom.  Even though I worked part-time this summer as a waitress (and loved it! called it my break) for the first time in probably ten years, I am still a stay-at home mom.
I have four children, aged 15, 12, 10 and 5.  Two boys and 2 girls.  Five if you count my husband.  Love them all even though they can literally drive me nuts, one at a time or 2 or 3 at a time.
So I cook, clean, referee, do laundry, and a million other things in the run of a day.  Other moms (and dads!) you know what I mean, right?
But I also have a dream of being an author.  A real one where people can actually read what I wrote.  Which is more terrifying than it is exciting.  Seriously.
So because my baby girl just started grade one, I made the decision to do it.  I gave myself last year (kindergarten) and this year to prove to myself that I could do it.
I can write.
It's hard some days to leave the laundry or the floors and take the time to write (why do I feel guilty?!).  There would be weeks at a time before I would pick up a pen.  Yes, I still write it out before I put it on the computer.  I am a fast writer (I scribble and shorthand some words-hard to make it out!), and such a sloooooooooow typer.  Really slow.
Last year I finished writing one novel.  For middle-graders, early teens.  I am in the editing stage.
Also last year I completely finished two other novels I had written in the last few years, and I mean completely.  Editing, proofing, covers.  Everything.  Also for middle-grade readers.
It is such an exciting feeling to actually be finished!  How many times have I started a story, a novel, and not finished it?  Too many!
My novel for adults is written, took me YEARS with lots of breaks between working on it again, and is in the editing stage.  Again.
And not only do I love writing novels - I love picture books! So two series of those, one 26 books and the other at least 10, are on my plate.  This is what I work on when I can't get the novels written.
My goal - besides getting my kids to do good in school, and yes, sometimes just to GET them there - is to get at least one third of the picture stories and my 2 middle-grade novels out there, edit my adult novel at least twice more, and write another novel.
Too much to handle for a beginner?
Possibly.
But that's okay.  I'm a forgiver.  As long as I try.
But now that this post is here, it's my promise to myself, and to you, to try not to make a fool of myself by sitting on my behind all day long, in my pajamas, and just play Spider-Solitaire on the computer.
I will write.
Have a wonderful day!
I will try too!