Where have I been and where am I going?

Hello again. It's been an interesting turn of events since I last showed up here. I would apologize for disappearing, but this is always the first plate that gets dropped when I start doing a million things at once. I don't mean it to be that way, but it's what happens. Anyways, let's go into what's happening now.

1. I'm querying Mystery of the Dark - what this means is that I am looking up agents and sending out a letter asking them to please look at my novel. In some cases, it means sending them parts of the novel too, which worries me, but only because I'm sending out my baby into the world. It's taken a very long time to get from draft one to sending to agents and while I love it, I'm also anxious about making sure everything is perfect. It's kind of fun and kind of getting more gray hair at the same time.

2. I changed the name of the blog back to Words 'n Books. I'm starting to do a lot of reading again, which is a ton of fun, and I'm glad I'm getting back into the swing of it. I've also started putting videos up on booktube, which is a section of YouTube that deals with all things books, and it's been fun. I just finished Wicked Deep yesterday and will have a spoiler filled review of the book up sometime over the weekend, but I'll link it here. I'm also taking part in the OWLs readathon and I've got two of my OWLs done. One more and I'll have exceeded expectations and that's all kind of awesome. You can find my YouTube channel here.

3. I'm editing Power, which is a trip because my writing is so horrible from 2008, and working on the second book of the Mystery of the Dark series. It's slow, for both of them, but at least I'm getting towards having things done, which is always fun, and then throwing them out to readers / editors / what have you to mix it all up.

4. I have a Facebook author page now! You can find it here.

So, that's where I have been. It's been interesting and a bit insane, but let's talk about where we're going.

1. This Sunday, there's a publishers panel at my library that I'm going to. It'll be interesting to network and hear what people have to say and so on. I'm a bit worried about it, mostly because I tend to be shy and I have to put myself forward, but we'll see how it goes. I'll update on that come next week sometime.

2. I'm going to attempt to post more. I'm not going to say how much, but I will work on it. At least once a month, I think, but we'll see.

3. More querying and trying not to have panic attacks with sending emails. The worst thing they're going to say is nothing, the second worst thing is going to be no. So, really, it's not as horrible as I'm making it out to be. Damn anxiety.

So that's that. Bit of an update and a bit of where we're going to try to go from here. Until next time, as there will be one, happy writing.