27 July 2010

Hello all,

We found another border collie. His name is Frank. You know... Old blue eyes. In his case - one blue eye, one brown eye. :o) We brought him home on the 25th.

As I've been reading the e-mail loop for the ACFW conference, I keep seeing the suggestion to have a business card to hand to folks I want to network with. So..... I went to http://www.vistaprint.com/ and ordered a set of plain business cards. They will have my: Name - The name of my manuscript - A Bible verse - My E-mail address and my phone number on them. I feel a little silly. Who has business cards if they aren't in a business? BUT - I am in the business of writing. Not in the sense that I know a thing about the publishing industry. Rather in the sense, I am a writer. (No matter what my sister thinks! *haha*)

I feel almost overloaded with the information coming at me. I'm not going to have a one sheet made. I feel it's sort of pointless for me as I'm not published. A one sheet seems more for a published author/writer. If I need a cheat sheet for an interview, I can take my notes with me. But - I plan to know everything I want to say about my story. (Barring stage fright.) I'll practice alot before hand.

Are this domestic dreamer's dream going to come true? I hope so..... one day.

I'm off to prepare another chapter for the critique group.

Smile and keep dreaming.

~Susie

23 July 2010

Hello All. We've been very sad here. Danny, our border collie died. :o( He would have been 3 years old on August 25th. He suffered seizures the past few months and they finally got the better of him. The house is VERY lonely and quiet without him.

On a lighter note - The ACFW annual conference is in Indianapolis Indiana, September 17 - 20. I'm all registered to go and can hardly wait. The e-mails I've read about the event from the ACFW loop get me fired up and excited. :o)

I've also joined Scribes Critique group through ACFW. I now know I am not ready to pitch my story at conference, but I am making it better and maybe next year I will be ready. I'm looking forward to learning all I can from the conference workshops.

Please pray I will be open to God's leading. Fourty Days of Prayer will start soon on the mail loop. I'm happy about that. I want to pray God's will be done and not mine. God knows what I want and I believe he is opening my eyes through the online critique group. I've got a lot of work to do.

I believe when I finally pitch this story, it might be as a three book series. *sigh* Maybe I'm biting off more than I can chew, but I believe God has put this on my heart.

Keep writing and dreaming.

In His name,

~Susie

( The picture above is in tribute to Danny. We love and miss you boy.)