Getting to know me...

The best way to learn about a person is to just start asking them questions. This also helps draw people out in conversation. A reader’s loop I’m part of recently posed the following question to all the authors on the loop: How do you know (or when will you know) that you've "made it"? This isn't an easy one to answer. I mean honestly its human nature to want more, never be satisfied with what we have right before us. Being a writer is no different from any other occupation, really. I mean it's a job, and you have to treat it like one. I've been a writer all my life. I've only recently turned it into a full time occupation. (Just not making a full time salary yet, LOL)

The original goals I had when as a kid: To be a worldwide read Best Selling Award Winning Author.

Guess what? I've done those things! I could stop right now and be able to say with pride I've done it! I've won awards for all three of my currently available titles. I've reached Best Selling Author with my publisher and I have readers from all across the globe. Granted its not the way I imagined back then when I made these goals. (There wasn't even an Internet back then, much less ebooks! LOL)

But true to nature I'm not done. I want it all, I want to see my titles at the bookstores, I want to go and have my own book signings! I'm not content to just sit back. But if it had to end today, then that’s ok, because I've done what I had always dreamed of.

So yeah, I can say I've made it! But until the day I can no longer see the screen, or move my fingers on the keys I'm not stopping. There is always a higher hurdle to leap, another door to walk through, but if it's closed, I'll find me a window.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here and I'll be happy to answer them!

This morning I sent off a query (as I like to call them, queasy) letter, a synopsis blurb and three sample chapters of my newest MS to Samhain Publishing. Now the agonizing wait of 8 to 12 weeks begins. already I'm feeling the distinct nausea that comes from putting one of my "babies" out for scrutiny and waiting to learn if they aren't as beautiful as the others floating through cyberspace.

I had a hard time with the synopsis and the blurb. I just can't write them, they make my teeth grate. But here is the blurb:

Justice Bernard, DEA Special Agent, and his team have spent years investigating and putting kinks in the chain of drugs entering and leaving St. Louis. He’s seen a lot in his line of work but he’s blindsided when the love of his life is kidnapped on the very day he proposed.

Callye Ann Simone's head is spinning. One minute she's walking along the Landing with the love of her life. The next, she's opening her eyes in a large, dark room and tied up tighter than a Christmas goose. Maybe if she can convince them she means nothing to him she’ll buy Justice enough time to come up with a plan.

Justice awakens to find his fiancée gone, taken literally from his arms. Now, he must find her at any cost, because her kidnappers are the very men Justice has shaken down for drug trafficking--and they want revenge.

Can Justice save Callye from the men who want to destroy him? And can Callye hold on to hope that Justice will find her in time?

What do you think? Sound like something you'd like to read?

Well gotta run. See you all soon!
Happy Reading!
Huggles,
Donica