SSA conference

This past weekend was fabulous. I went to a writer's conference sponsered by southwestern society of authors (SSA). I had three appointments with agents. It was great. I met first with Minju Chang, bookstop Literary. My openng chapter was missing the paragraph voice. I told her about the writer's groups I was attending suggested I start with action. I told her that's why I came this weeked to get expert advice. So, she said to send it to her when I reset the first paragraph 'voice'.  It's excited to know I was writing the right way. We'll see where it goes! The last agent I met with was Natalie Fischer with Dijkstra agency. She was so cool. I was impressed with her.She is looking for dark faerie story. My story is that. Here's part of my query letter:
Half-breed it sounds cool. But that’s not how it is. 16-year-old Anaroha is running for her life after her exiled mother from the faerie realm gives her an unlikely gift burned to her chest. Her mother sent her finest, Ronan, an unemotional soldier, to tag along with her all the way to America to get away from the three malicious Fomori, water demons, who successfully tracked her down at every turn.


She’s finally told during her intense training with Ronan that she has to save the faerie realm from corruption before it spills into the human world. She needs to rally the supporters from her mother to stop the treachery and stay alive. There’s a problem, the good guys aren’t playing nice. Anaroha can’t trust anyone except the emotionally challenged soldier.
Third paragraph is still in working phase. I'll post  ASAP

Update on Fallin'

Gosh. i haven't posted to my blog since June. So much has happened during that time. I have an editor and I just posted my query to agents. I'm also meeting with three agents this weekend. (25th and 26th)

so I entered another contest one liner with 'children's publishing'. i'll know something on  the 17th of June. The fist line of my book.
here it is:
“If I want to go swimming in the ocean, I’m going. You can’t stop me!” I said.

contest

I just entered a contest withLiterey agent's blog. It's a one sentence descrition of your story. This is what I posted:

Inaroha, modern day Joan D'Arc meets the beautiful and dark residence of Irish mytholgy in battle over the prophecy of her, the daemon.

I am working on editing my finished manscript. I have an editor thjat I'm working to fine tune my rough draft

Chapter 1 – Unveiling of the Rose, Page 1

Everyone has a story, everyone has a beginning, but can you remember the day it would change the rest of your life? When events began to turn and those events, left clues to another life that you never knew existed? For me, it all began at an all too familiar place that I had spent my childhood...the beach.

I was young and when I say young, I mean I still believed in the tooth fairy and all magical creatures at the fond age of seven. Remembering back to this age seems a life time ago but it was as clear as crystal to me. Crystals because it’s a prism that reflects all colors. The crystal prism is a reminder of the one that would make me whole, complete me.

I was a gifted swimmer and those who knew me would know it was just a statement of fact as natural to me as breathing. That wasn’t the only strange thing about me. I didn’t care about my appearance but people pointed out my dark hair with massive loose curls, and my eyes, a peculiar color of a deep ocean blue.


On this particular day, maybe you would have thought it was a fluke, the weather, or maybe even some strange event that no one could quite remember or explain.

“Inaroha! Let’s play hide-n-seek!” shouted out Sophie, my best friend.

“Ah, Sophie! Where are we going to hide, in the water?”

Tristan pipes up, “Yeah! Great idea Inaroha! The ones that’s ‘it’ will close his eyes and shout and the rest of us will Shout back!”

We all agreed, “Okay, let’s go!”

Why I ventured out so far in the ocean by myself despite the protests from my friends and family, I will never know but I did.

A sickness all writer's share!

I'm discovering that other writers, like myself, have a similar sickness. A passion to put their personal thoughts down on paper. I cannot find enough time in the day to write my own work! What with working full time and Not ignoring my family, it's a tight squeeze but I make it work! Not writing for a day drives me crazy!