Getting Ready To Begin

I finished going through my novel, God Sleeps Tonight this afternoon. I have one more novel, Three Corners to do before I can begin on my latest work, tenatively named, Katrina: Prey For Us. At least that was my game plan. I am still working with Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor on Mother's Revenge . . . I am not naming all these novels as an attention-getter, merely telling it like it is. I have seven novels completed, some are ready to be published, some not . . . Bu published I mean POD. I have given up on ever snaring an agent who will fight for me, or that a prestegious New York Publisher will discover me. I have fought the fight for many, many years and all to no avail. So! POD it is. At least they will be out there.

I was going to do Three Corners before I started on my latest work, but I think not. I am not exactly happy at how the novel is written. This novel, or the germ of the idea that caused it to be written is over forty years old and was the catalyist that got me to thinking I wanted to write novels. I have written three versions of it and haven't liked any of them. I think the novel is too close to home, I don't know if I'll ever get it written . . .

As I said, this is the kick-off of Katrina: Prey For Us . . . I have a hell of an idea. We'll see if I can pull it off . . .

What I am about . . .

I write novels, short stories and poetry. I write some of these well, some not so well. I have seven completed novels to date. Three of these are published. Self-published, because I have grown weary of the hassle of submissions, rejections, submissions, rejections, and all that jazz . . .

As of now I am in the process of going through ALL of my novells and trying to tidy them up and make them better. I have three to go and then I will begin the new novel, Katrina Prey For Us. I have great, really great hopes for this novel and I am grateful that I did not start on it before its time. I am finding out that as I work on my other novels I am seeing things I want to do with Katrina Prey For Us that I might not have seen if I had did what I usually do when I want to begin a new projece . . . Dive right in, no matter how shallow the water is. That kind of knee-jerk treatment to my work has gotten me in a lot of trouble in the prededing years . . .

Okay. I had a little say here, will come back and say more . . .

Getting Started . . .

First entry. I plan to use this blog to "talk" to myself as I write my new novel. The novel's title -- subject to change -- is Katrina Prey For Us . . . I will also use this space to ramble on about a great many other things which come to my attention . . . We'll see how it goes . . .