If you remember, I completed my novel, Woman at the Top of the Stairs during last years Nano camp. that book was subsequently published in October 2012. Well this year, I will be participating in camp during April 2013 and June 2013. Of course I will be doing the national event in November, but this post is all about the first camp of the year.

It only seemed fitting to work on the second installment of the WATTOTS series during this go around. I am getting excited about it! Although I have several WIPS in various stages of completion that could be easily finished up during this 50k in 30 day challenge, I decided to work on the sequel.


What really got me excited about working on part two is a recent book club meeting I had with Sistah Minds in Motion Book club. These ladies were fantastic! They really understood the connection between Gina and Zenobia and are vested in what happens with these two ladies as well as what goes down with some of the secondary characters in the book. I told them that I would be working on the sequel and they were excited to know what would be next? I am too! I can't wait to get back to this story line and decide what kind of murder and mayhem I can cook up next. The last one left the readers with a cliff hanger. I can't promise this one won't do the same!! I will do my best to stop in during the course of the writing challenge to let you all know what tricks I have up my sleeve! Stay tuned!!

I can't believe it has been this long since I sat down to talk to you all. Where did the time go??? I could give all kinds of excuses but what good would it do? The fact of the matter is I have been bent over my computer, stuck in the bat cave for months trying to get some of these ideas out of my head.

I do need to bring you up to speed on how things are going. I have been super busy and things are going well. I have published quite a few projects since the last time we spoke and of course I have many more in the works.

First, let me let you in on the Suddenly Single series. I have sat down several times to write my story. It never failed that when I finally began to pull the scab off my old wounds (at least I thought they were old), I would get so angry and frustrated that everything I wrote reflected those two emotions. I put it down and picked it up. I changed the idea, the format, the genre - I changed any and everything I could think of to get to a place where I could tell the story and not want to throw my computer out of the window in the process of doing so. It didn't work.

This happened over and over again over the past few years. I abandoned the idea and shelved the scraps of projects I started and never completed and moved on to tell other stories.

Then out of nowhere, on the cusp of the 13th anniversary of my husbands death last year in December 2012, it hit me. I found a way to tell my story and it became the Suddenly Single Series. I am excite about how things have turned out and I promise to do better this time with keeping up with this part of my journey. I may talk about this some more as the episodes come out. It is serialized fiction and right now I have 10 installments planned. But you know me, it could be longer or shorter depending on how much I still need to heal in the process....