I'm still here :)

I'm still here, dealing with "other" stuff has kept me from doing my full amount of blogging, marketing and networking. Here's a quick update.

I'm particiapating in a 1k word a day contest, and I'm very glad I did! Somedays I can write 4k thousand words no sweat, but because of schedules and all the other life stuff, it's been work to keep up the 1k a day, but it has helped.

The best news? I won the first week with over 8400 words! Woot woot. I've written like five so far tonight, but I have a half an hour left. All kinds of things can happen to my characters within a half an hour (evil laugh)

Hope everyon'es weekend is going well, and please give me any feedback on my book after you have read it! It is my first novel so I'm way open to opinions and suggestions. Also, let me know who your favorite characters are. PS My edits are going well, hopefully by Thursday will have excerpts from Blood Traitors, next in series after Rebellion on Piza 7, on my web page,

My webpages have links to my publisher site to buy the book and my twitter and my kindle. Also, feel free to email me at leona.bushman@gmail.com for questions, insights, and suggestions, or any constructive criticism :)

YA challenge

There's a challenge going out on one of the blogs I read for networking, information, etc. it's to write 1000k words a day for one month and there are rewards. I can do that, I've averaged more than that this week, but had 2 days that were under that. So for me, the trick will be to stick with it.

I would like anyone who reads my blogs, or twitter or anything to keep me accountable. Use comments, twitter, whatever works. For the rules and what I'm supposed to be living up to, here's the link http://yaedge.blogspot.com Also, it's open to anyone who wants to follow those rules. Tell anyone you want my blog page and twitter account and be my cheering group/task master whichever is needed on any given day. I'll make it my goal to have it written by 5 pm (or 1700 hours for you military types). Any takers?

PS It doesn't have to be a YA novel. I haven't decided what my novel will be. I still have a few days left to choose.