Another Shipment

I recently recieved another box of Ordinary Enough in the mail.  Three book this time, and boy are they as close to perfect as I've ever seen.

The size is perfect.

(5x8)

The spacing is perfect.

(I finally realized that spacing should be single spaced.  Not double.  Not 1.5.  Single.)

The cover is beautiful.

(My crazy artist friend will be drawing the final cover, which is already underway.)

And I had it printed on cream paper, which is easier on the eyes.

I'll be attending a class in August on getting published, and after that I hope to start sending this baby out into the world.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

Updates

I've been trying and trying to get my act together, and you know, this is a lot of writing for one book.

Said stack does not include the other three printed versions of the novel (which are with my mom's friend, my art teacher, and the cover art designer currently) but it does include the second edition of the work in book form, two spiral notebooks filled with stuff, and the entire manuscript printed out.  That binder has hinges.  Hinges.  I did not know that they made binders with hinges.  Also included in the picture is a lovely view of my carpet.

My summer project is to really get the ball rolling with Susie to find a home for this novel in the publishing world.  After that's on its way to being settled, I'll be pounding out the next book.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

P.S. Also, Lenny now has his own twitter.  he's @OfficialLenaic

Spring Cleaning

During the month of March, I read Utopia by Thomas More and wrote a lengthy essay on it as well as creating an oddly juvenile poster.  I also read Shakespeare's The Life of Henry V and wrote an essay on that as well.  I also finally watched It's a Wonderful Life, read some Tolstoy, and finished my essay on Jean Anouilh's Antigone.

Well, actually I finished that essay last night.

In other news, I opened up one of those old boxes in the basement and found, to my delight, the entire history of my life from birth to about fourth grade.  This is where things get scary.  Apparently, from about first to third grade, I was the class's resident math whiz.  

I think if nine year old me could see seventeen year old me, she would be ashamed of the math skills I now possess.  However, in that box, I did find about a dozen or so odd books that I'd written as a child, which consist of flowers named Stephanie and Horses in the snow and also about my unadulterated joy at finally seeing what trees looked like after getting glasses.

Script Frenzy is up and running, and I have about fifty pages on that, so I'm powering through in anticipation of a busy second half of April.  I'm working on the third installment of Naomi's series, so I skipped an entire book.  We'll see how that goes.

I also completed another step in my more-euro-chic-than-thou process by eating French Lavender ice cream.  I don't know how to feel about it just yet.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

My Book Has Arrived

TA-DA

There it is, my book.  I printed and ordered five copies from CreateSpace and they arrived in a very big box.  My friend took pictures of me as I opened the package and honestly, I look like a child on Christmas morning.  One book stays home with me, one went to the crazy artist friend, one goes to my eighth grade English teacher, and then two copies I donated to my school library, autographed and all.

Very exciting.

I'll also be talking at my school's Love Your Library Week next Monday.  I'm really nervous, but hopefully it will be very fun.

I'm now working on Xavier's book as much as I can, but he is still being a brat.  I also filled up my novel scrapbook, which was no small feat.  I feel kind of empty without it, but I started another one, so that might make up for its absence.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

The Problem Child

So you know when you baby sit that one kid down the street and they never want to do anything you ask them to do?  And maybe you'll try to ask them to cooperate, but they just look you in the eye and say:

"Why?"

Yeah.  That is Crown Prince Xavier right now.  He won't cooperate with me at all, and I would really love to finish this series.  It's all going very slowly, so I'm just kind of writing a lot of back story about General Lokiju and Count Omar who are really not relevant to what I want to write.

So after I finish Naomi's book completely and send it to Susie, I will try to finish Xavier's book, and then I would like to write the prequel that deals with Emperor Matthias, and then I will hopefully follow that with Lénaïc's book.

It would be lovely to finish a real series.  I'm trying my very best right now.

TTFN

M.K.Wissler

I'm Not so Hot at this Blogging Thing

Happy New Year!

Last time I posted was a month before Halloween.  Plenty has happened; I performed in a play, I won NaNoWriMo, and Crown Prince Xavier is being one of the most difficult characters I've ever written.  Honestly, he's turning out to be quite the troubled child.

I've also developed another idea for a fifth installment in Naomi's series that involves a war, a marriage proposal and a lot of strychnine, but that's still in the planning stages.  I hope to be updating a little bit more often now that I remember this exists, but that will probably not happen.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler