Let me preface this by saying – “I’m weird.”

I can admit it. I see things from a different angle than most people. Often I read too much in certain aspects and underestimate others. As I have established with my last post I have an Uber-curious mind. I am not what you’d call “normal” – right girls, can you back me up on this?

Anyhoo – I digress…

I mentioned I recently went through some major revisions on one of my books at the request of an editor BEFORE she would offer a contract. I took a week to totally freaked out. Then another to contemplate it and then in a couple of days I whipped that puppy into shape.

I re-read the ENTIRE book to make sure that I tied in the changes throughout and much to my horror corrected all the minor little edits that I missed previously (I will say I have a program that reads the book back to me and I highly recommend it – I hadn’t used it before I sent it the first time – BIG MISTAKE – just eyeballing it, you WILL miss many small edits that your brain fixes while you read it off the screen – again I digress….)

One thing I discovered, I really liked the book. There is always the little niggle of self-doubt that what you write is crap and no one will like it, but as I went through the prose I fell back in love with the hero, routed for the heroine and booed the bad guy at every turn.

It was initially a five book series in a fictitious town in Wyoming. I have only completed the first book, have the barest ideas for 2-5. I had almost decided not to write the other four. I didn’t know how well I like book one – but after the re-read, I have renewed faith that it t’ain’t too bad!

On a totally different not – I want to remind EVERYone that Deadly Mistakes comes out in print December 19, 2006 available at Samhain’s bookstore as well as Amazon.com and selected Borders stores.

To celebrate, I am going to have a give-away every Tuesday leading up to it. Today – is a “Dirty Girl” box set. Dirty Girl Boxes It has Lily body mist, 2 scented towelettes & a notebook. Next week is a “Dirty Girl on the go” gift set with Travel Diary, 2 luggage tags, towelettes & lip balm. And on the RELEASE DAY I will give away a signed copy of my first ever in print book – YAHOO!

I will draw names of all the comments – so tell me what you’re thinking!