Novel Countdown Extravaganza!!!!

My last day of school is tomorrow! I'm really excited to be finished with this semester, but now my next challenge is upon me. Starting May 4th I'm doing a 45 day countdown to finish my Paranormal Romance novel, Deadly Caress. Right now I'm about 53,000 words in and I'm a little more than half way done. So I figure if I do AT LEAST 1,050 words a day, about 7,400 words a week, I'll be finished in my time frame. Of course this is just to finish it/ give it an ending, not have it done and edited in that time. So I'm going to post my word count every week and talk about my progress (and probably struggle) with reaching my goal. Wish me luck!

Workin' Day and Night

So school has me pretty busy right now. These next two weeks are going to be a killer on me with a 10 page and a 15 page essay and a 12 page story re-write...yeah hectic. So I haven't been able to even look, let alone touch, Deadly Caress. I promised my lovely agent that I'd be done by the end of May, but I might have to push that back a few weeks. My new date to be finished is June 8th. That way I can account for these two weeks where nothing is getting done and I'll be finished before the 10th when TRUEBLOOD comes back on! So I'm excited to be done with my first official year of college (The previous year I attended UIC and then a community college). So yeah, yay me! Will keep you posted more on page count and the closer I get to my goal. Right now I'm at about 52,000 words! So I'm about half way done. The only thing that's running through my mind is "Stay focused, stay focused, stay focused!"

NEW WEBSITE!

I just published my first website and I'm really excited and happy. It's not super fancy, but its mine and I love it. So go check it out! Something I found out about myself is that I love everything perfect and precise. It took me hours to position and get the damn thing exactly how I wanted it, and I'm still not totally happy with it. But that's me! So go check it out at http://www.jswalkerauthor.com/ !

UNDERCONSTRUCTION

Hey everyone! My blog is undergoing some drastic changes...okay not DRASTIC, but changes nevertheless so if you click things and they don't go anywhere or that page is empty its because I'm working on it. I hope to have it finished by tomorrow night. Keep your fingers crossed!

RT Convention

So this week the RT (Romance Times) Convention was held in Rosemont, Illinois and I was very fortunate to be able to attend. There were so many great authors there and the events were fun. There was a ton of workshops, author panels, fun parties, and a giant book fair this morning with over 300 hundred authors there.

It was my first RT Convention. Actually it was my first ever convention! I really enjoyed myself and the best part of the conference would have to be that I won the American "Idol" Voice Writing Competition and now I have a fantastic agent and some prospects on getting published! I'm very excited! It all still seems so unreal and I'll be posting tomorrow talking specifically about the contest and how my life is changing.

JS

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of the beautiful Irish people out in the world today. Have loads of fun! In Chicago there's so much fun stuff to do, so I'll be downtown at around 3pm until...... Yeah, so I was thinking that I was going to write a little story specifically for this occasion (I even started it) but I have WAY too much work to do for school. So, maybe next year! Just enjoy this little joke......

An Irishman had been drinking at a pub all night.  The bartender finally said that the bar is closing. So the Irishman stood up to leave and fell flat on his face. He tried to stand one more time; same result. He figured he'll crawl outside and get some fresh air and maybe that will sober him up.

Once outside he stood up and fell flat on his face. So he decided to crawl the 4 blocks to his home. When he arrived at the door he stood up and again fell flat on his face.  He crawled through the door and into his bedroom. When he reached his bed he tried one more time to stand up. This time he managed to pull himself upright, but he quickly fell right into bed and is sound asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.   He was awakened the next morning to his wife standing over him, shouting, "So, you've been out drinking again!!"
     "What makes you say that?" he asked, putting on an innocent look.
     "The pub called. You left your wheelchair there again."  

It's 2012!!!!

Hey bloggers, Happy 2012! I had a blast on New Years Eve and I hope that you guys did too. I spent the holidays with my family as I told you in my last vlog. It was nice to go to Georgia where the temperature was awesome. The day after Christmas we went to the park and all we wore were jackets! I know right. LOL!

So there's some pretty awesome stuff happening in 2012. The first thing is that a lot of good books are coming out this year, but aren't they always. On February 28th The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter will be out! I've been looking for this book since I started to Lord Series and I can't wait to read about Paris! I'll have more about that the closer it gets to the date and of course I'll do the review. Also, Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward will be out on March 27th. I'm really really excited about that book! Thor is such a tortured character and I just want to see him happy. So more on that the closer that date comes too.

There's some cool dates this year too. There Comic Con that will have Karen Marie Moning on the panel in June or July, I'll have to double check that. And there's Dragon Con in Atlanta that will have tons of cool authors like Laurell K and Karen Marie etc. More on that too.

So Happy New Year guys and I'll post more soon!
JS