Okay, so I am no Meg Cabot or Nora Roberts or Adam Selzer, that may be true, but can it be that I can only squeeze out ONE book a year? I mean, that’s okay and all, but I’d like to be able to write at least two books a year. I was making great progress on MOVES, and then I just stopped. I look at it now like “what?” I mean, the framework is there. I just need to do a LOT of fleshing and organizing and adding more description and dialogue. Honestly, I am overwhelmed at the amount of work I have to do to it and it’s scaring me away.

I have to fight that. I don’t have to finish a book in two weeks like SOME PEOPLE I KNOW. It’s okay for me to take 6 months, like I’ve been doing all along, right?

Sigh.

UNTITLED. I’ve had a billion false starts on it. I know where I want it to go, but it won’t come out!!! Poor Alison. She’s been dying for her own story for years now. I don’t want to let her down.

I’m frustrated and feeling stuck because I want to write, but once I sit there, I lose all motivation and drive. I just feel tired, mostly. So maybe I’m tapped out for the year.

I’ve been told I need a break. But it’s hard to take it when I don’t really want to. But I think I have to, so I can clear my head and be able to write well. The stories will get told… I just need to be patient. Ethan’s got two of my books now, I guess it’s okay for me to breathe for a bit, huh?

Still, COME BACK, MUSE. I’LL GIVE YOU SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH AND KOOL-AID!!! I promise. Just… come back to me!!!

This book blew me out of the water. Jennifer () is a Yale graduate who’s been writing forever, and it shows. At first, I thought it might be another A-List or Gossip Girls novel, with the bitchy cliques and what not, but when I read the blurb and saw that it was a paranormal (something I’m starting to slowly get into more and more), I knew I had to get it. Because finally–SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Here is the official syposis:
When Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, she finds herself in the middle of a teenage nightmare: a social scene to rival a Hollywood movie. And if understanding the hierarchy of the Goldens vs.the Nons isn’t hard enough, Lissy’s ever growing Aura Vision is getting harder and harder to hide, and if she’s not careful, she’s going to become a Non faster than you can say “freak.”

But it’s becoming clear that Emory High has a few secrets of its own. Around the halls, the term “special powers” goes way beyond one’s ability to attract the opposite sex, and there may be something more evil than the A-crowd lurking in the classrooms. Lissy can see a lot more than the average girl, but she’s about to learn the hard way that things aren’t always as they appear and you can’t always judge a girl by her lip gloss.

When I first read the synposis, I knew I needed to get this book. Jennifer doesn’t disappoint. Every page is a show-stopping page turner, with so much to learn and anticipate. Some parts had me cussing out loud as things came clearer to me as to what they meant and what they would cause. The stakes get high, the dialogue is realistic, and the revelations are shocking. It’s a well-paced, entertaining read. Just make sure you have plenty of time to finish it, because you will not want to put it down.

I am looking very forward to her next novel, but it’s not out until January 2007!

Five Stars!! 🙂

Great work, Jen!! 😀