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Until next time...stay safe, stay well, and may the Lord bless you all.







Cynde


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"Disappointed Again!"

Hello, everyone.



I stayed up late last night (it's around 4 a. m. now) so that I could attend a free chat session sponsored by Savvy Authors called WHAT EDITORS LOVE: Tight Third POV. The only this is that nothing happened. I logged in to the chat and everything was fine, but no one was there. People kept signing in and leaving the chat room, and I don't even know if they saw me. There was one girl there (I don't think I say her name) that I kept sending messages to, but either she didn't see me or she didn't want to be bothered with answering me. I guess I'll never know.





Anyway, I am so disappointed. I don't think I'll sign up for another one of those chat thingies again any time soon. Doggone it. But I don't blame Savvy Authors, so don't get me wrong. It was just one of those things.

Nightie-night, my friends. I'll write again soon.


Until next time...stay safe, stay well, and may the Lord bless you all.




Cynde


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"We're Baaaa-aaaack!"

Hi, everyone! It's been so long since I've posted that I have almost forgotten how to do it.

Well, "we're baaaa-aaaack!" We had a fabulous time and it was so romantic!

The weather was absolutely perfect the entire time we were in the Caribbean and everyone was so nice to us. The foldable cane that my husband, Dion, bought for me to use on the trip really helped me a lot. I don't think I could have made it without having it.



Here are a few photos from our trip, just to whet your whistles:

This is our view from the ship at Ft. Lauderdale, FL. ~ You can see another cruise ship off in the distance, ready to set sail.

I just had to show you this odd little storm out to sea. The little storm clouds got so close to us at one point, we could almost touch them, but we didn't catch it on film ~ it happened so fast we didn't realize what was happening!

Then, almost as fast as it came upon us, the sun appeared and whisked it away. I hope you can see what I mean when looking at these photos. It was all so vivid out there on the deep, blue sea...

Here's one of the beautiful white, sandy beaches that we got to visit. Isn't it gorgeous? The weather was perfect and the water temperature couldn't have been more ideal.


This is a close-up of that same beach. If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was like that Chevy Chase movie where he paid everyone in the town to act perfect during the Christmas season so that he and his wife could sell their home and get a divorce.

And then, "Oh, joy!" This is the sight we came home to when we drove in to our driveway at our home, sweet, home. I must add that we were glad to get home, though, because afterall, there's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...



Well, everyone, aside from our trip, I've been busy writing. I took a class at the Writer's Village University and it was awesome. I'm so glad I joined there! I've made lots of new friends and joined a critique group for the first time in my life, and I've learned so much from them. I should have joined a critique group a long time ago, but to tell you the truth, I was too shy. But now that I've taken the plunge, and the Lord lead me to the perfect people, I see that it's not so bad afterall.

I'll write again as soon as I can. And I promise it won't take me five months this time!

Until next time...stay safe, stay well, and may the Lord bless you all.

Cynde


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"My Quick Review Of: The "Write On Con" Writing Conference"

I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought the WriteOnCon.com free writing conference for kidlit writers was absolutely awesome! Also, since the conference was free, any interested writer was encouraged to attend, plus the curriculum focused on picture book, middle grade, and young adult writers.

WriteOnCon.com did have a few temporary glitches due to the overwhelming response that they had. I'm not exactly sure, but I think that maybe Google wasn't prepared for all of the creatively talented people that would be converging on one tiny little spot at the same time, and it blew their "little minds". Can you imagine what would have happened if WriteOnCon.com had have offered the conference to more than just kidlit writers? Why, it probably would have closed down the entire Internet!





Then on top of that, after Google finally got everything squared away, some of the participants (namely me!) still had trouble getting on to the WriteOnCon.com site because now their own individual Internet Service Providers (ISP's) were having problems with either Google or the WriteOnCon.com site itself. It was a little bit frustrating...

But as far as I'm concerned, none of this should reflect negatively upon the founders/presenters of the WriteOnCon.com event itself. Each one of the people involved in organizing, presenting and the actual nuts-n-bolts working at this fantastic conference are to be congratulated for the excellent jobs that they did!





NOTE: The following are the people in the WriteOnCon.com "gang" that are to be recognized for their outstanding work throughout this event:

THE FOUNDERS:

1. Jamie Harrington


2. Elana Johnson


3. Casey McCormick


4. Shannon Messenger


5. Lisa and Laura Roecker


6. Jennifer Stayrook

THE AGENTS/EDITORS:

1. Michelle Andelman with Regal Literary.


2. Regina Brooks with Serendipity Literary Agency, LLC.


3. Catherine Drayton with InkWell Management.


4. Natalie M. Fischer with The Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.


5. Mandy Hubbard with D4EO Literary Agency.


6. Weronika Janczuk with D4EO Literary Agency.


7. Mary Kole with The Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc..


8. Jennifer Laughran with The Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc..


9. Kendra Levin with Viking Children's Books.


10. Steven Malk with Writer's House Literary Agency.


11. Mark McVeigh with The McVeigh Agency.


12. Martha Mihalick with Greenwillow Books.


13. Molly O'Neill with Katherine Tegen Books.


14. Kathleen Ortiz with Lowenstein Assoiciates, Inc..


15. Paul Samuelson with Sourcebooks, Inc..


16. Anica Rissi with Simon & Schuster.


17. Holly Root with Waxman Literary Agency.


18. Elana Roth with The Caren Johnson Literary Agency.


19. Joanna Stampfel-Volpe with Nancy Coffey Literary and Media Representation.


20. Kate Schafer Testerman with KT Literary.


21. Suzie Townsend with FinePrint Literary Management.


22. Michelle Wolfson with Wolfson Literary Agency.

THE AUTHORS/ILLUSTRATORS:

1. Josh Berk


2. Tera Lynn Childs


3. Rosemary Clement-Moore


4. Kimberly Derting


5. Lindsay Eland


6. Jennifer Fosberry


7. Risa Green


8. Rachel Hawkins


9. P. J. Hoover


10. Shelli Johannes-Wells


11. Julia Karr


12. Kody Keplinger


13. Lindsey Leavitt


14. Tom Leveen


15. J. S. Lewis


16. Cynthea Liu


17. Jodi Meadows


18. Shelley Moore Thomas


19. Aprilynne Pike


20. Janette Rallison


21. Lisa Schroeder


22. Crystal Stranaghan


23. Tiffany Strelitz Haber


24. Stasia Ward Kehoe


25. Daisy Whitney


26. Suzanne Young


27. Michelle Zink

The Illustrators from "Studio Five" are:

1. J. H. Everett


2. Bob Singer


3. Alice and Martin Provensen


4. Andrew Mitchell


5. JR Johnson


6. Marilyn Scott-Waters

I just wanted to publicly acknowledge all of the people that went to so much work bringing us such a fabulous writer's conference...and all for FREE, too, I might add! In addition to that, I wanted to give them a great big THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, because I don't know that I would be able to attend a conference any other way. ~If I have missed anyone in error, please accept my apology, then let me know so I can edit this posting right away! Thanks.~ So...here's a special thanks to all of you:








I guess that's all for now, folks. Be sure to use the links above and visit the people that you're interested in checking out. Every one of them is super talented & creative and you'll be glad that you've gotten to know them in one way or another. Trust me!

Until next time...stay safe, stay well, and may the Lord bless you all.

Cynde


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"Update On My Latest News!"

Hello, everybody!

I just completed the "Summer Symposium Workshops" hosted by "Savvy Authors.com".

While I was a "lurker" in several of the workshops, the workshops that I actually participated in are as follows:

1. "Great Characters--Great Hooks: How to Put 'Em Together" with Shannon Donnelly.


2. ""Muse. Breathe. Focus. Achieve." with Stacia Kelly.


3. "Series Pitfalls" with Dyanne Davis.

Furthermore, Dyanne Davis has asked me to be a guest on her website; she will be interviewing me in the very near future. I am so honored! It will be my very first interview on a website ever!

And guess what! I was one of the blessed individuals that won a "raffle prize" from the "Summer Symposium Workshops". My prize was a book entitled "WRITING ROMANCE" that was donated by Beth Barany. "Thanks a lot, Beth!"




The first thing on my agenda is the fabulous, FREE online writer's conference called: "WriteOnCon.com" which will be held from 10 through 12 August 2010, inclusive.


Next in line for my events at the "Savvy Authors.com" site are the following workshops:

1. "Tickets to Ride: Basic Historical Research"; Instructor: Beth Daniels; Dates: 30 Aug-05 Sept 2010.


2. "Creating Your Own Book Trailer"; Instructor: Kris Tualla; Dates: 05 Sept-19 Sept 2010.

I guess that's all for now, folks. I'll check in as soon as I have any more news. I let you know when my interview with Dyanne Davis will be posted so you can check it out, OK?



Until next time...stay safe, stay well, and may the Lord bless you all.

Cynde


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