Browsing the Library

I finished Stephen King's "The Wind Through the Keyhole". It was great, of course. I would never say anything negative about someone as iconic as Stephen King. I like the story within a story. The one the boy and his ma.

I found Mark Jean and Christopher Carlson's "Puddlejumpers"    www.markjean.com
I like to check out about authors. This book appealed to me because it takes them into another world. Mark is a director by trade.

As for me writing, I keep on it. Time is not on my side lately with moving. School starts Monday, but I still have a three year old that likes to cut her hair in her spare time. My goal is to have it done by Halloween 2012!! I would like to see it on the shelves 2014!

Library

I just moved and the first thing I do is check out the library. That says a lot about a town. And...this one gets a 10. So far so good. Salt Lake County has 20 other libraries to pull from, programs, large selection, and great set up. I could walk around the library all day and I look at whatever catches my eye. I am currently listening to Stephen Kings, "The Wind Through the Key Hole" A Dark Tower Novel. Stephen King's -The Dark Tower WebsiteSo I wandered to the audio books and found a couple of local authors that inspired me.
1. Kelli Swofford Nielsen   Kelli's page
She wrote "Journey to the Fringe". She inspires me because this is her debut novel! and she got a degree in English. I got a degree in English and did not think about what I would do with it, I just liked the classes in literature and kept taking them. Now that I am done, I really can't do anything with it because I do not have a teaching degree. So I do what I love. Write.

2. Cat Patrick   Cat's page
I like biographies that tell more about a person than just the usual...we live here, I have two ferrel cats....
I want to hear about the time you decided to write. The time you decided to send in a query. The time that you found out they wanted your manuscript. She does this and I like it. She is a stay at home mom and celebrated the exciting news with her twin children. She wrote, "Forgotten" and has a 3 or 4 book deal! The rights to her book were already sold...how exciting!

I am at the library right now because I have no internet at home, yet! I have to go but can't wait to get back to writing! I have been storing up all my idea's in my head and scratch paper in the car from our trip out here to UTAH!

Regine Normann

Why is it that we want what we can't have. I can not find any books in English of Regine Normann.

"North Norway’s great fairy tale writer, Regine Normann," Norway Post. 

http://www.norwaypost.no/museums/museum-north-a-unique-selection-of-history-and-knowledge-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417-26417.html

I did in the process find an interesting website out of the UK that will ship for free anywhere!
http://www.bookdepository.com
And you can search by language.

Submit your Query

I am not ready to submit. Wish I was. But this is way cool. Check it out. No strings attached. And possible feedback to see if what your doing is working....

http://writeoncon.com/


And the 14th and 15th, my moving days.... :'(
there is a free conference!
Here is the website that tells about that:

http://writeoncon.com/about/

Still Writing...

So, here is a sad update. I didn't win the Southwest Writers Contest. But, I was still with the top 20! I am still floating about that. If I had won, I probably would have been very distracted from my move to Utah. And the extra $1500 dollars, pish...who needs that.

I have been very busy and have not been able to write very much lately. But I have been reading some great books. Windswept Dawn, the author, William Heinesen, turned down a Nobel Prize! The other auther is Jorn Riel. I am not sure how to get the fancy "o" with the line through it. Also, not sure how to pronounce a lot of what I read? But, his book was for grade school readers. It was great! I love children's books. I think that is because I did not read very much as a kid. Yeah, Yeah, I hear writers always bragging about how they couldn't stop reading. I am not sure why I didn't read. Maybe, nothing interested me, maybe my mother never read to me (love you mom), maybe...books just weren't good in the 80's. High possibility. The Harry Potter generation was lucky to have J.K Rowling.

Ok, back to Jorn Riel


I found him from watching my Inuit movies. He wrote "Before Tomorrow" and it was the last of the three films I watched. This was my favorite film. I watched an interview with him and he talked about how he got his idea for the book. He went to visit Greenland and while with a hunter he came across the cave with the remains of a Grandmother and young boy. I love this stuff. This is the stuff that gets my mind going. I hear something and have to know the whole story with it. I am not just satisfied knowing that the old lady is bitter and stays in her house all day. I've got to know how and why she ended up that way. Or, how the bones got to the cave. Mysteries and why people do the things they do intrigue me
His book, "The Shipwreck" was great information about the Inuit. He is a wealth of information. I would love to be able to go to Greenland, or Northern Canada. Not going to happen. Unless I get a grant because of my love of writing this book. But, I don't see that happening.

My book is all up here

and if I can just finish this move, I will have the time to get it out onto paper. I am looking forward to that. In the mean time, I am reading "The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki". There is a lot to study for the Vikings. One of my many characters for my book. Along with the Inut woman and Foster boy from Liberia. 

Windswept Dawn

Windswept Dawn by William Heinesen





View all my reviewsFinished the book. It was good and the Faroe Islands really are the main characters. Loved it and the simplicity of everyday life.