Good News and Bad News

Well I made it past the first cut in the ABNA contest so I'm very happy about that. A couple of my friends and my sister didn't so that was sad since we all put a lot of time into writing.

I'm dealing with a sick cat right now so can't really write more than that at the moment. I think his time has about come to leave us and that's very hard. Any of you cat lovers who read this will know what I'm talking about there. I've had him since he was a kitten and he'll be 18 on May 6th. Poor darling.

I'll update soon on other things.

I Entered The ABNA Contest For The Third Time

Well let me tell you it's been a long two months for me. Trying to get my book finished in time for the contest and dealing with all my family issues. I lost one of my dear cats on the 7th of Dec. so that was a blow but he was 17 years and 7 months so had a pretty long life. Now his brother pines away for him, poor thing. They were from the same litter. He has lots of medical problems anyway so I've had my hands full.

Then the announcement for the contest came, which I was expecting, so it was onto polishing and more polishing. And the polishing was after I had to add 30,000 words to the manuscript in two weeks. It was a story I had originally written as a short story in 2005 and wasn't long enough for the contest at its present length. Of course I could have taken the easy route and just entered the one I did last year since they let self published books in the contest this year but I wanted to enter something new. I've been burning the midnight oil on all that and am completely wiped out.

I'm entering Y/A this year - my first year to do so - but it was the only thing I had finished enough that I could polish in time since I opted to enter something new. Hopefully I'll make the first cut but what will be - will be. At least I'm entered and can catch up on my 700 emails now. Oh my! A daunting task since I have to read them all. I'm so behind on my email that I should be ashamed of myself. I owe notes to a few people but they know what my writing life is like. Thank goodness. Of course my house needs a good cleaning too etc. etc. etc. And I have three manuscripts left to read and review since I promised that before the holidays. You know how it never ends. Sometimes I think I bite off way more than is do-able but that's just me. I do eventually get to it. I'm glad most people are understanding.

I guess I'm hopeless because I'm already jotting notes down for the next book. Sigh... I guess they'll join all the other notes I keep in my writing folder for now.

Lost one of my beloved cats

Hi All,

This is not book related but thought I would share this moment with you as it weighs heavily on my mind. I lost one of my beloved boys yesterday. He was 17 years and 7 months old so pretty good for a cat. He had kidney disease and we knew it would claim him in the end but it's still hard to believe he's gone. He was such an angel and was actually doing better than his brother from the same litter or so I thought. His brother has alot of other health issues.

Anyway, he never complained and even let us know when he needed to use the litter box so we could carry him there as he couldn't walk the last few days. Now how many cats would bother to do that? I sure wish one of my girls (the retarded devil cat) would have taken a lesson or two from him.

I miss him terribly and the house seems lonelier and quieter which is only in my imagination I know. I keep hearing his meow and seeing a vision of his black and white form in the corner of my eye. I'm so dreadfully tired after sitting for three days at his bedside with only three hours of sleep during that time. I'm consoling myself that he had the best life I could give him and he's now in the summerland chasing butterflies and grasshoppers and sitting in the sun spots again like he used to love to do.

I've neglected my writing, blogs and email and need to get back to all that after I've rested. I just wanted to share this with any of the cat lovers who may read this.

Blessings,
Sunni

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Hi everyone,
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Blessings, Sunni

MY LIFE IS TOO BUSY

Making notes here and there for my next book. It's slow going with trying to promote this one everywhere I can plus handling the daily things going on in my life. Then my sister's boyfriend asked me the other night when I was going to write a mystery thriller. Hmmmm.... Well I've always wanted to and maybe someday I will but as it is it takes me a good two years to turn out a book. People don't seem to realize I have a husband and six cats to take of. That alone keeps me pretty busy. Especially when my "boys" are 17 and 1/2 and one has seizures. I make a lot of trips to the vet.

Anyway while I'm stashing away notes for future novels I'm also reading and reviewing some others that have come out. If anyone stops by and reads this and would like to read a little more of my books here is my page on authonomy. I've got about 7 or 8 chapters of each one posted there. http://www.authonomy.com/Profile.aspx

Happy reading,
Sunni