Lucky Seven Meme

My crit partner, Amy Christine Parker AND Mindee Arnett, the author of upcoming novel, The Nightmare Affair, tagged me for the Lucky Seven Meme! I've seen this floating around the blogosphere and on Twitter, so I was so excited to be tagged by TWO people!

(Mindee's book sounds absolutely awesome! The seven lines she posted are from it so go read about it on her blog! I can't wait for it to come out!)

(Also, Amy's amazing novel recently sold to Random House!!!! Trust me when I say it's amazing-- I've read it. *Laughs evilly* Go read her blog too. Now. I'll wait. Just make sure you come back here.)

(I feel like I used way too many commas in that first paragraph. I probably did. Just like I overuse parentheses. Anyway.)

Rules For The Lucky Seven Meme:

• Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP
• Go to line 7
• Copy down the next 7 lines--sentences or paragraphs--and post them as they're written. No cheating.
• Tag 7 authors
• Let them know

Now. I am going to be a cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater because I just recently shelved my completed manuscript and have no intention of opening it except for agent requests. So instead, I'm going to the 7th page of my WIP instead of the 77th (since I'm only as far as page 61 at the moment). 

You guys. This project still has the I-LOVE-YOU-SO-FREAKING-MUCH-BECAUSE-I-HAVEN'T-SMELLED-YOUR-MORNING-BREATH-YET glow that most new projects do, so I am EXCITED to share it with someone. Not even my crit partners have read this manuscript yet. *bites nail* 

Here we go!

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I want to pull on my sneakers, bolt out of this building, and sprint until my ribs ache. I want to run until I can't breathe. Along with a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a jacket, I'd packed my favorite running shoes just for this purpose. I poke my legs and arms into the clothes-- which are a bit too big for my new body, but they'll do for now.

       As much as I want to sprint right out of the hospital, I know what Thalia and I have to do first-- we've got to return my old body back to my foster parents' house. When Thalia proposed the transport to me, we discussed what to do with my old body. We can't give it to the crematorium like most transporters do because my archetype is stolen-- a stolen reject that would have been disposed of anyway, but still stolen. 

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EEEP! I can't believe I just posted that. It's so NEW and UNEDITED. Oh well. Hope you were intrigued anyway! :-)

And the 7 Lucky Ladies I'm Tagging Are:

• Krystalyn Drown
• Melissa Hurst
• Megan Whitmer
• Laura Renegar
• Michelle Krys
• Stephanie Pellegrin
• Jenny S. Morris

Go check out their blogs! 

PS. Don't forget about The Fiction Femme Fatale's launch this Friday! The first story kicks booty!

The LIEBSTER AWARD!

What DOES Liebster mean, you ask? (I had to look it up, so I would know exactly was I was being awarded.) According to Google Translate, it means....

FAVORITE!

(in German)

My awesomely awesome critique partner, Amy Christine Parker (who recently signed with agent Lucienne Diver! WOO HOO!!! (Told you she was awesome.)) passed the Liebster torch on to me!

The Liebster Award is for blogs who have less than 200 followers (I have THREE. COME ON PEOPLE YOU'LL LIKE ME I SWEAR I'M NOT CREEPY) and it is meant to help increase followers/viewers of those blogs!

So, according the rules, I get to pick 5 blogs that are my "liebster" (I don't speak German and I'm sure that's not the correct conjugation, but you know what I mean) and pass the torch on to them! YAY! AND I have to tell you five things about myself that you might not know. It's going to be really hard to follow Amy's, whose life reads like a contemporary YA novel. :-D  But on we go!

My Picks:

1.) Melissa Hurst ( http://melissa-hurst.blogspot.com/ )
2.) Stefanie Gaither ( http://stefaniegaither.blogspot.com/ )
3.) Jenny S. Morris ( http://jennysimaginaryworld.blogspot.com/ )
4.) Lisa Styles Lofland ( http://behindthemystery.blogspot.com/ )
5.) Mindee Arnett ( http://mindeearnett.blogspot.com/ )

All these ladies are writers such as myself-- some are agented, some have book deals, some are aspiring (like me!) and ALL are working hard to make their dreams come true. I have had the pleasure of reading a few of these bloggers' manuscripts, and they are ALL talented people! Their blogs give me inspiration and keep me going when I feel like I'm the only one who thinks writing books is a fun-but-hard thing to do. Follow them!

And now for the five things you (probably wish) you didn't know about me: (evil laugh)

1.) I am terrified of mold/mildew. I don't know why, but even the thought of it makes my skin crawl. Because of this, I am also afraid of shower curtains, outdoor cushions, and wet rags. EW.

(This photo will give me nightmares for days. *closes eyes and keeps typing*)

2.) I wrote a post about this already, but flying squirrels haunt me. Seriously. They've broken into my house, my vacation cabin,  caused my husband to fall off a ladder, and a few other things. I'm convinced it's one squirrel that hides around the corners and waits for me to let my guard down so it can attack. I'm not afraid of it though. I'm plotting my squirrel revenge. 

3.)   I once saw the end of a rainbow. Someone had already snagged the pot of gold, though.

(Sadly, this is not my photo. I had a crappy phone and no camera the day I saw mine! It looked like this, just in the parking lot at my university.)

4.) I have a severe addiction to lip balm. I suspect that I have over 20 tubes of it in my possession right now. THIS is my new favorite: 

(Click on photo for link to buy. The "sweet mint" flavor is the best!!!)

5.) I can sing. Here's a clip of my sister and me doing karaoke. (The Sister is gonna kill me when she finds out that I put this on the internet, but I don't have any videos on this computer of me singing alone. I LOVE YOU SISSY! You sing better than me anyway!) And I'd like apologize in advance for my husband's awful video recording skills. He's good at lots of other things. 

So anyway, follow my blog (if you want... PLEASE?) and follow these other FIVE wonderful women. (SIX if you haven't followed Amy's blog yet) You will not regret it and will be wiser for it! Now I'm off to the revision cave to work on my LAST round of edits before I close my WICKED ILLUSIONS doc for good. (Unless some agent out there likes these new edits, that is. And if not, maybe I'll rewrite it someday when I'm a better writer) Wish me mental strength and clever phrases! :-D