Sadie Jay

This week I got some feedback on Embers and Flame and did some editing accordingly. Now, to get some more feedback from some more beta readers. Please feel free to let me know if you are interested in giving it a read. Anyway, I did a little work on Headphones , played with some ideas on a couple of other stories I've got percolating, and basically let the events of the last few days bog me down. Does writing rants on Facebook count towards my weekly goals? I don't know, but Grammarly says I wrote more words than I can account for on Google Docs, so at least there has been an offering of words! How about for this week's excerpt I share the first page of the first (very rough) draft of Cut Shot ? I'm thinking it's going to be my CampNaNo project: Jebediah could feel the man’s gaze as if it was a physical thing. There was weight to it, a lowering of air pressure, a buzz behind his ears. He bent over the pool table and studied the balls, doing his best to not tur...

               I wrote my synopsis and blurb for Embers and Flame: Charles “Cherry” Andrews is trying to prove to himself that he can have a life on his own. His ex left him the couch, the bed, and the camping equipment. Replacing the city and hospital sounds with crickets and birdsong at his favorite campground feels like the perfect vacation, but instead of finding peace, he’s simply bored. Ben Torres set out on a motorcycle tour of the country as a way to find his own peace after the death of his mother, but a bad baffle curtails his plans within hours of leaving home. Luckily for him, the guy in the next camp spot happily shares his fishing equipment as well as offering to play taxi. An unplanned kiss on their last day together leads to an afternoon of discovery that turns into a summer romance that begins to feel like a long distance relationship. Everything would be wonderful if they could spend the rest of their life in a small te...

I finished my editing rounds of Embers and Flame , now to write the synopsis and query and send it out. I'm really divided right now about if I really want to do that, or just settle on self-publishing and skip putting myself through the querying angst. I have so many projects bubbling around in my head and I'm not sure what I want to start on next. Logically, I started the Headphones rewrite and I should dedicate myself to finishing it, but I see that taking at least four months, and I really want to start on Cut Shot , Jeb and Ian's story. I may try to work on both at the same time--at least get Cut Shot started, and then focus on it as my CampNano project. Anyway, that's where I am at the moment, so time to take a deep breath and move forward!