And the winner is...

The Castle Cant. Ohhhh, I'm LOVING it! I absolutely think the voice is incredible and the plot captivating. Tee hee! But then, I love mg fiction over YA since that's what I write...you guys might get bored with this stuff. Thanks to Amanda for suggesting it!

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Went to the library...

I'm revving up for my new WIP and I always do that by reading. Here are some books I found. I'm having trouble deciding what I want to read first:

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan

The Secret of Castle Cant by K.P. Bath

Traitor by Andy Mc Nab and Robert Rigby

I've always wanted to read Funke but her voice is off putting depending on her translator.

Still waiting on the agent front. The crickets are getting louder and louder...sigh...

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You KNOW you're a redneck when...

You win third place in the Wild Hog Festival World Championship!
I got the belt buckle to prove it! *spit* Ding!

This is down-home Texas culture.

(I think I'd better move to CA...FAST!)

The above is a movie but it won't upload here. I'll try to put up pics later.

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Take this kite and...

I took off from writing yesterday to spend time with my 4 year old. It was out of guilt because she had told my hubby a few days ago that all I do is "play on the computer". So, my plan was to take her out to eat, go buy a kite, and spend the rest of the afternoon giggling in the wind. Ahem...I should have revised that dream into "crying in the wind." You guessed it, 30 seconds into the air, the kite dove for the tallest, branchiest tree in the field. (Yes, field! There weren't supposed to be any trees there!!!) As soon as Courtney figured it was stuck, she burst into tears. My heart broke.

What did she think of her day when I tucked her in last night? "It was horrible, Mommy. I think next time we should play on the computer."

So much for trying to spend some quality time with her...sigh...

For those of you thinking about doing the same thing--buy two kites!

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We're moving to CA!!

We got the official word that we are moving to CA. Hooray!! I can't WAIT to go to the SCBWI National conference. Too bad it won't be this year. I'll be moving right around that weekend. But I'll be there in 2007!

I also heard that the base houses are quite a bit bigger than what I'm in. Thank the Lord! Housing aside, I'm just ready to be around a metropolitan area. I'm a city girl, after all. I was raised in a suburb of Dallas and this desert remote area is very hard. There's just nothing to do except count rattlesnakes! At least I'm not scared of them anymore. HA! (I wonder if that's a good thing?)

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