Wow - I didn't realize...

...that it had been so long since my last post!  Man does that make me feel guilty.  I have some updates for you all, which to some may seem insignificant, but to me they are pretty cool.

1 - I won a couple writing contests on Figment.com - wahoo!!  Here are the links to the stories:

Surfaced

Wishing World

The prizes for these were a copy of Waterfall by Lauren Kate and a Figment.com prize pack.

2 - I've pushed through my writing slump and have written 40,000 words in my New Adult novel (here)!  I've just finished chapter 30 and forsee about another 10 chapters until the first draft is completed.

3 - My 1-more-day-left-of-2nd-grade son is struggling to find something he wants to read about for school.  So he and I came up with a book idea that I have started writing called Terry Tarantula and the Jewel Thief (see more here).  He is super excited about this book and reminds me almost every day to finish writing it - I'm 4 chapters into it with 6 left to write!

Here is my cover mock-up of the book:

 

And that just about wraps up my updates.  I'm excited about the progress I've made on both of these writing projects and hope I can keep updating here more frequently.  But, with summer vacation only 1 day away, I'm not promising anything...though I'd like to :)