Month: September 2011

#ROW80 Rd 3, Wk 11, rpt 2

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All chapters of The P.U.R.E. have been run through Autocrit.com.  Hallelujah!  But what a God-awful process that was.

I loaded the MS on my Kindle for a final read-through edit and have also started the dreaded comma search.  Commas are not my bag and the hunt for homes for them has been as harrowing as managing an animal shelter full of senior dogs and cats.

The bright side is my Six Sentence Sunday snippet from The P.U.R.E. got a positive reception.  That’s the nice thing about doing later edits and read-throughs–new jokes and angles and snappy dialogue bits reveal themselves. The punch line of my SSS was a late addition and the star of the post.  I posted during 2010 NaNoWriMo about how my writing is similar to painting a picture.  I still feel this way–it’s a multi-layered process.  Hopefully I have enough layers on this baby because it’s headed to the publisher (sometime before midnight.  LOL)

My cumulative statistics are on my ROW80-3 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports.  Give them some encouragement too.

Six Sentence Sunday — The P.U.R.E.

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Welcome to my FIRST “Six Sentence Sunday”. Thank you for visiting and especially for any comments you might leave me.

This six comes from my debut novel, a romantic suspense, The P.U.R.E., to be published by J Taylor Publishing in April 2012. P.U.R.E stands for Previously Undetected Recruiting Error, by the way.

In this scene, our heroine, Gayle, arrives at the offices of her employer, Anderson Blakely, CPA’s.  Jon is a close co-worker.  Gayle made a shocking discovery about her very private but platonic friend the day before and has been prepping to appear unfazed.

The next morning, Jon had his head down working when I arrived. I dropped my purse with a loud thud, and slipped off my jacket. A mellow version of Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell wormed its way in my head, and demanded I sing along. Why anyone thought piping bad elevator music into an office made sense had always stumped me. We were accountants not savages.

“Good morning, Jon.”

If you enjoyed that, I hope you’ll pick up a copy of The P.U.R.E. right after you file your tax return next year, on or around April 16, 2012 when it releases.  I promise you a lot more humor, romance, intrigue and even a little action.  Psst…there’s also some sex.  Shhhh….

Be sure to check out the host site, Six Sentence Sunday, for links to more tantalizing snippets from some very talented writers.