WOW! Got some good news today: my niece and a friend both are getting their novels published! Yay! The friend has been writing steadily for nine years, has had some short stories published. Her agent called: "Are you sitting down?" She was informed that two of her novels were sold, with a promise of the third in the series to be picked up when it is finished! I am so happy for her! Here's the link, although the book won't be available for a while:
http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/wb-publishers-has-acquired-rochelle-wisoff-fields-novels-please-say-kaddish-for-me-and-from-silt-and-ashes-both-based-on-a-true-story/
WOW #2 Then I went to a family function and my daughter said to me, "Mom, did you know that cousin Lois has just announced that her first fiction novel was just picked up to be published in January 2016?" No, I didn't know that!! Yay again!! My niece has been writing non-fiction educational books for young readers for some time now. I didn't know that either! Again so happy for her! It's available on Amazon for pre-order. Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban for ages 9-12.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374302162/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_awdo_mNXavb1YSF451
WOW #3 But you wanna know what the best news is, (for me that is) I just finished my first draft of my first novel!! Yay! and Double Yay!!! I have no promise of being published yet but I am working on it. I am so happy for me, and I am still hoping!!!! This is fun! (Love being happy and saying Yay!)
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Monday, June 30, 2014
Birthday!
Last day of June and it is always my birthday! >>>smile :) My favorite Etsy team, the Blogging Business Artisans, does monthly challenges and wouldn't ya know, this month we are supposed to write about a favorite birthday or birthday celebration.
Well, when I was growing up, my family was not much into birthday celebrations, since my parents grew up 'dirt poor' (excuse the pun) in the dust bowl years with mostly nothing. It just wasn't one of their family traditions. So our family just had a birthday cake, which mom made, and a present--usually just one-- at the dinner table. When my kids were little, there were so many of them--six--that having birthday parties just wasn't feasible due to the sheer number of parties required. I would have been doing a party every other month and our friends would have gotten tired of that really quick! Then when my husband died and I remarried my sweet hubby with four kids (three of them living with us!), parties were definitely out of the question! I do remember several of the teens throwing their own parties for special birthdays like sweet sixteen etc.--with all of the work done by them, except I bought the cakes. So much for the history part of this story!
Today, hubby brought me breakfast in bed--my favorite egg muffin and coffee; then when I got up, I found this on my work table:
I literally love cinnamon rolls! There are lots of them so I can munch on them the rest of the day! And my hubby is just so sweet to always buy flowers for special occasions! Love these long stemmed red roses!!! Thanks honey!
Oh . . . and he is planning dinner out this evening! He's a keeper!
P.S. you can see what my other teammates are posting here.
Well, when I was growing up, my family was not much into birthday celebrations, since my parents grew up 'dirt poor' (excuse the pun) in the dust bowl years with mostly nothing. It just wasn't one of their family traditions. So our family just had a birthday cake, which mom made, and a present--usually just one-- at the dinner table. When my kids were little, there were so many of them--six--that having birthday parties just wasn't feasible due to the sheer number of parties required. I would have been doing a party every other month and our friends would have gotten tired of that really quick! Then when my husband died and I remarried my sweet hubby with four kids (three of them living with us!), parties were definitely out of the question! I do remember several of the teens throwing their own parties for special birthdays like sweet sixteen etc.--with all of the work done by them, except I bought the cakes. So much for the history part of this story!
Today, hubby brought me breakfast in bed--my favorite egg muffin and coffee; then when I got up, I found this on my work table:
I literally love cinnamon rolls! There are lots of them so I can munch on them the rest of the day! And my hubby is just so sweet to always buy flowers for special occasions! Love these long stemmed red roses!!! Thanks honey!
Oh . . . and he is planning dinner out this evening! He's a keeper!
P.S. you can see what my other teammates are posting here.
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