HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Just wanted to take the time to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday! Blogging may be sporadic over vacation. But that seems common. I will leave you with one of my favorite videos from this year. I've watched it about a million times:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Books Books Books

At the beginning of 2010, I made a list of books I wanted to read. I decided I would also keep a list of the books I actually read. Um. That didn't happen. I am not too great at lists but maybe next year I will accurately document my reading habits. Or maybe pigs will start flying. Who knows?

But, from what I can remember, here is a list of books I read in 2010. Chances are, if I finished reading the book, I loved it!

In no particular order...

1) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2) Room

3) I'd Know You Anywhere

4) The Perks of Being a Wallflower** LOVE. Can't believe it took me so long to get to this book...

5) Will Grayson, Will Grayson

6) Anna and the French Kiss

7) Paranormalcy

8) Hex Hall

9) Story of a Girl

10) The Disreputable History of Frankie-Laudeau Banks*** FAVORITE. LOVE. FAVORITE.

11) Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

12) Nothing

13) The Duff

14) The Search (Nora Roberts)

15) The Help

16) Stay

17) Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks

18) I Am the Messenger *SPECIAL LOVE.

19) It's Kind of a Funny Story* SPECIAL LOVE.

20) The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon

21) Thirteen Reasons Why

22) Cracked up to Be

23) Eat, Pray, Love

24) Fireworks Over Toccoa

25) Going Bovine

26) Al Capone Does My Shirts

27) The Smoke Jumper

28) 13 Little Blue Envelopes * LOVE! (This book and Anna and the French Kiss pretty much sums up my experience in Europe many years ago...love them both!)

29) If I Stay

30) The Spectacular Now

31) The Dogs of Babel *LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!

Okay, so I could've been LOVE by all of them because I enjoyed all of the above. And that's all I can remember! Or maybe that's it! I feel like I read a lot more this year than I usually do. I took a big break from writing to just read, read, read.

I'm looking forward to great new books in 2011! Yeah!

Happy Holidays!

A MEOW-TASTIC Announcement!

Happy.

Hi! It's been awhile! You might have noticed some changes around here. Or maybe not. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't notice. It's hard to avoid the holiday daze. You might be asking yourself: Why the changes, Lisa? Well, I am sure glad you asked, dear reader. It's time to start fresh. I'm going in a new direction.

And I'm thinking about asking for this for Christmas...





BUT WHY? BECAUSE...

I HAVE AN AGENT!

You read that write, er, I mean right...

I HAVE AN AGENT!

I am now represented by the wonderful Katie Shea of the Caren Johnson Literary Agency!

You might be wondering (or maybe you are wondering where all the hot guy pictures are...I don't know...): But, uh, WHAT? How did this happen? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

The wonderful Katie represents the YA Contemporary Novel I wrote over the summer, this special little story that I thought might be too odd for anyone to like. I was worried about sending it out...but I did...

There is a lesson in here somewhere. I think...Oh, yeah! Write what you love!

I am happy and excited to start the New Year fresh and to work with Katie on my story! I'll also be happy to answer any questions! In the meantime...I will leave you with this:

Testing...

Testing...the...new...blog...

I'm Still Here

Hi! I'm here. Just got back from business trip. Sounds fancy. It isn't. My car battery died last night. I have jury duty next week. Painting bedroom, resulting in a mess of a room. Laundry piling up. Pet hair piling up. Blog reading piling up. E-mail piled up. Books to read. Christmas shopping to do. Yep. That kind of time.

In other news...

I won NANO! Yeah! 50,000 words, barely. I got it in before my trip. Yeah! Time to let that manuscript sit for some time. It was a fun one to write.

Holla. I'm alive. I'm alive. I'm alive. And wiped out. Must use weekend productively...

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

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32,000 words in. Not kidding. I don't how or when this happened. But it did. I had some major writing days. And now it's slowing down...

I still have no idea what I'm writing. It's sort of LOST inspired? Maybe? No? All I know is my MC is a teenage male. And a lot of weird stuff happens. But this weird stuff is supposed to happen because it all leads to something. I've got my ending. I like my ending. It's a sweet, strangely happy ending? Maybe?

I don't write in order. I skip around a lot. And because I managed to get ahead, I might use some days to finish up edits on Moon Dog. That story has really shaped up, in my humble, completely unqualified opinion. =) And perhaps I will take that draft and dive back into querying, after sending out to betas, of course!

Anyway. Rambling.

More weird stuff to write...=)

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What the heck am I writing?