Hi, and welcome to this first ever post on my own blog! It’s
going up hand in hand with the arrival of my website, fully fledged, on the
web. That feels huge! Both are major stepping-stones on the Road to
Publication—that last word being the most huge of all. “Publication”.
I’m still pinching myself.
About me…well, there’s that wee blurb to the right, and if
you’ve arrived on this page via my website you might already have read the
bio/info there. So I’ll leave you to browse the site for more, if you’d like.
Or not.
So here I am. As a newbie who’s dragged herself slightly
kicking and screaming to the blog page (Whaaaa? More to do? Noooo!) I
have no idea yet how frequently I’ll post. But my husband has been telling me
for ages that once I got started, I’d take to blogging like a ghost to
haunting, so we’ll see.
Other than a brief “Hello and watch this space” post, though,
I really thought I’d be leaving this page blank for awhile. Then Miriam
Forster, a writer friend from The Lucky 13s—a group of MG and YA authors
debuting in 2013 that I belong to—asked us Luckies for guest posts on why we
wrote our particular book. That sounded like fun, so I replied, Sure! I’m up
for it! Thinking, the way you do, that I could put it off for a few weeks. Or
preferably months. (But at least I’d have made the commitment. Good for me!)
“If you wanted to/had time to put something together by the end of the month,”
she wrote back, “I could use it as my Halloween post. If you like. :)”
Halloween? If I’d like? Gulp. But with The Flame in theMist being so full of ghosts, ghouls and creepiness…well, it felt like an ideal,
fun kick in my never-yet-blogged butt. So I agreed. Then realized…Halloween was
just a few days away. Oh…dfpgtt**!¡!@**!
Well actually, it was perfect. Miriam made it easy by focusing
the question more: “Personally, I'd like to know what drew you to spooky, to
spiders and rats and creepy atmospheres.” Oh yay! A no-brainer. And guess what? Hubby was
right: I loved writing it. It also gave me something to write in this Hello,
here I am, post.
So, to read my Official Halloween Post (which I believe will
go up Tuesday 30th—I’ll
tweet and Facebook it, if Frankenstorm doesn’t knock out our power) head over
to Miriam's Blog.
And while you’re there, be sure to read about Miriam's
fabulous-sounding YA debut, City of a ThousandDolls, coming Feb. 5th 2013. The
synopsis is a real grabber, and the cover is gorgeous! It’s definitely on my
to-be-read list.
Et voila: Wings spread! Thanks so much for reading. And feel
free to comment…
but
please be nice.
East coasters in the U.S., stay safe in the storm.
Ta-ta till next time!
