Something new- a website

Now to prove that I am serious about the whole book publishing thing, I created my own website. I don't have a big head, but I figured I might as well start one up before someone else decided to steal the domain. Who knows the book might go somewhere. Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.michellescheunemann.com/

Feel free to send anyone my way if you'd like. Who knows, I may even add a small portion of the book for people to sample. Probably won't be tonight however.

Michelle

Question for those of you who read my blog

Have you ever looked yourself up on the internet? Well for most of us the first thing that will probably come up in this day and age is your facebook page profile. Damn that facebook. However I digress I propose a challenge to you. Look me up on Google and tell me what you find. Perhaps you can spread the word and or the challenge?

Michelle

And the results are in...

Well it's time for the results of the first round of the ABNA contest and low and behold...I didn't make it again! Actually I am so not torn up over this. I look at it this way; one way or another Cursed and the Damned will be published. It just won't be done by a big publishing house. Another good thing is that I can enter it again next year if I so chose even if it is self published.
See the thing is I believe in this book even if no one else does. I've been told it's been a great read, but alas getting the big publishing houses to believe it is another story. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I'm onto bigger and better things. Only thing I have to wait for now is my cover art to be completely finished.

Looking toward the future

You know, I'm not certain why I write a blog, mostly because I highly doubt that anyone is interested in what I have to say. Perhaps I do it for myself so I can look back on things. Right now I'm looking forward however. Tomorrow I find out if I made it past the preliminary stage of the ABNA contest. Considering I'm a pessimist at heart I'm not holding out for any high hopes. I did get back in touch with Ron and he's working on fixing the small problem in the artwork I posted yesterday. It's getting so close and all that's left after this is a bit of coloring. That means that I can publish the damn thing, unless for some stupid ass reason I end up winning the ABNA contest. (At that point I'd actually be surprised if not floored) Anyway be prepared for a post tomorrow highlighting either another failure or a small win.

-Michelle

A new week and an update!

Hello to all of you wonderful people that actually read my blog!
Well the waiting for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is almost over. At least the first round of it. We shall see if my pitch was liked enough to move me on to the next round. I'm not holding out for it and if it happens it happens. I got something else this week that made me just as happy if not happier.
I'm certain that an update would have come about sooner, but somewhere in cyberspace an e-mail decided to blip on me and Ron. However today I got a nice little e-mail with the beginnings of my cover. This is the stage before he puts in all the details, but...at least you can get the idea.  
You can see Atraiu's cape is more than a cape and well Davali's tail is a bit obvious too. All in all I love it. (even if it has one slight error.)

What say all of you?

-Michelle

Ramblings of a Tortured Creative Soul

Well it's been awhile since I've had much of anything to report. My old laptop up and died and I finally got a brand new one, which is what I am writing this blog post with now. The past few months have been a roller coaster really. From a writing stand point I'm feeling as if I'm not getting anywhere. I feel that both in work and in the creative process that the more you do, the farther you sink. And even through these trials I still continue to tell myself to keep going, there's GOT to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Needless to say I have yet to find it.

I did however for the third time enter the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and around the 23rd of February I'll find out if I made it through the first round. I'd like to be hopeful, but I can tell that in the past Science Fiction and Fantasy don't really get far. It's like they overlook that genre and don't take it seriously and THAT my friends pisses me off.

Well, now that I have this computer, I think I shall get back to something that gets me out of this miserable excuse of a world and places me someplace where I don't have to think about my problems for awhile. So off to the kingdom of Altaria and to typing up the 12th chapter of Cursed and the Damned's sequel.