Saturday, January 14, 2017

Celebrating Good Books and Submissions

                                                                       
I had mentioned earlier that one of my New Year's resolutions was to write more. Well, I've been scribbling notes for WIPs and new works, but more importantly, I've been submitting work—last week, a picture book and a chapter book. Today, I submitted10 poems to a contest.

On another note, I'm celebrating two good reads: I ordered and have begun to read, Anne Bronte's The Tenant at Wildfowl Hall (which I mentioned in last week's post). And I'm halfway through Amy Thomas's The Detective and the Woman and the Winking Tree. Expect positive reviews for both in posts to come.

What a pleasure good books are!

Celebrate the Small Things  is a blog hop co-hosted by Lexa Cain at: Lexa Cain,  L.G. Keltner @ Writing Off The Edge , and Tonja Drecker @ Tidbits Blog. (You can go to any of these sites to add your name to the links, if you want to participate. I recommend it, because it's always fun to see news that others are celebrating, and to share your own as well. )

What are you celebrating this week? Did you make New Year resolutions? If so, were you able to start applying to at least one of them? If not, are you somewhat skeptical of resolutions, and do you just go with the flow or wing it each year? Any good reads to share?


                                          

12 comments:

Unknown said...

Yay for you for sticking to your resolutions and subbing things! I wish you good luck on the subs and that you enjoy the 2 books you're reading, and have a lovely weekend! :)

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Thanks, Lexa. Next week I want to start sending out queries for my mystery. Have a great day and a great week.

Theresa Milstein said...

Good for you for working on your reading and writing goals. Great progress!

I'm working on learning how to promote and market myself and my book. I'm more more about writing.

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Thanks for stopping by, Theresa. I'm the same: I'd rather write than market and promote. Good luck with your efforts in that direction. Have a good week ahead.

Tonja Drecker said...

Yay to getting those submissions out, and here's wishing you tons of luck! It sounds like you're really on top of things. May it stay that way.

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Hi, T. Thanks for stopping by. I agree . . . May it stay that way. The rest of the month I plan to line up markets for my mystery and send it out to them. Hope your own writing is going well. Have a great week.

cleemckenzie said...

It seems as if you're following through with that promise to yourself! Congratulations.

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Hi, Lee, yes, and I'm so happy. Both the PB and the chapter book got accepted. I'll post more about them farther down the road. Don't want to jinx anything. :-)

Tamara Narayan said...

I just finished reading A Dog's Purpose. It had its slow places, but was overall enjoyable. Now I'm feeling the need to read something more literary and dramatic.

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Hi, Tamara, thanks for the recommendation. Meanwhile, if you are interested in literary and dramatic, I highly recommend The Madwoman Upstairs that I mentioned in my last post, and also Anne Bronte's The Tenant and Wildfell Hall, if you like any of the other Brontes' novels. Have a great week-end.

Cathrina Constantine said...

Good luck with all your submissions, Elizabeth!!!

Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...

Thanks so much, Cathrina. Fingers crossed for sure.