Come to my new/old blog...

Hey ya'll, I'm sorry that I've been MIA. I decided to combine my photography blog and my writing blog!

If you want to stop by, you can check me out:

HERE

A ridiculous CONTEST

Today I blogged here:

ERIN'S other blog

Surprising right? Miracle of miracles, sometimes I do blog. Lately it tends to be more there than here. I used to keep the two passions of my life--photography and writing--separate. But as I move further into those two areas it's becoming harder to draw the line. 

Today I'm giving away a WEDDING. 

Crazy, right? 

If you're already married, you could take the session as a family session, or maybe you know someone who just needs some awesome pictures to pep up their life. Regardless, go enter that contest. 

And please, for the love of all things blogger, PLEASE SHARE the link. I'm groveling at this point. I want ya'll to win. Or someone you know. 

See you over in the photography blogger world. 

luv erin.

secret 30 of 100: liar and a cheat.

I am a lair and a cheat. 

A few months back I'm pretty sure I said I would keep this blog up better than I have. Thus, LIAR. But that's not my secret. 

 

"I'm not a quitter." I've said this countless times. I will NEVER start a new book without finishing the current WIP. Especially not when that WIP was 90% finished. 

Well, my secret is: 

I lied. 

In October (right about the last time I hung out in bloggerville) I had a coming to Jesus with my spy book. It was a novel I had been working on for two years. A novel that I'd written multiple completed drafts of. A novel that frankly has problems. 

One day I was sitting there, plugging away at fixing those issues, when the realization hit: I HATED THE FREAKING spy novel. I wanted to punch it in the face. Kick it to the curb. Spit on it and never ever think about a girl spy again. 

So I did. I closed my word document and opened a new one. 

Honestly, I was kind of embarrassed about the whole quitting thing and uber depressed. But then I decided:

Nobody tells me what to do!

 So if I was going to lie, might as well cheat, right? 

I opened a new word document and wrote a different novel. One that I love. One that doesn't have years of expectations behind it. One that I'm now (as in this today) writing the final scenes. 

Just thought I'd pop in and say hi. 

Last Day of the Feast. Sarah b.

Sarah and I met at a writing conference years ago. She is an exceptional writer and so very danged determined that it makes me want to punch her in the face. (In a loving way.) See, Miss Sarah can bust out a book in less than a month's time. She's a lean mean writing machine. And so, I have a love hate relationship with her which is comprised mostly of hate that is fueled from pure, seething jealousy. 

Wow, that makes me sound like a crazy pants, huh? 

Craziness aside, Sarah is a dang good writer. She is repped by Josh Adams of Adams Literary who I've heard is a friggin' super-tastic agent. 

You can check her blog out HERE.

Feast of Posting . . . Jessie. And Me.

And here I've done it again. I didn't post yesterday just to throw things up a bit in the blogging world. You just never know what's going to happen. I like to keep it alive here people. So I figured why not a little more name dropping, eh?

Have you met Jessie Humphries? Because I have. Jessie Humphries is my friend, a BFF for life. She's repped by the amazing Sarah Davies at Greenhouse Literary Agency and one day Jessie's book will rock your world.

Did you catch that name drop? Jessie. Jessie. Jessie.

If you haven't met her yet, check her out at her BLOG-O-RAMA. (To avoid confusion, that is not the name of her blog, but my own clever way of using the word "blog" in the effort to avoid online monotony. On a side note, it would make a great blog title. Right? Just saying.)

Since Jessie seems to be the only person I will give my camera to and say, "hey, take a pic of me. I am so vain and I can't have too many pictures of myself."

And since she is all too willing to oblige, here you go. This is me. I am a writer. Repped by no one. Though one day that will change and my agent will be the greatest agent in the literary world. And together we shall conquer the Earth! Muah ha ha. (Evil laugh.)

Have a great Tuesday!

Feast of Posting . . . Peggy.

My friend Peggy is beautiful. 

Nuff said. 

And she writes like a boss. 

Feast of Posting Day 2 . . . ladies, ladies, ladies

 I have more and more and more author pics and future author pics to share. Are you ready for this? Oh, and on a side note, if you're feeling a little left out and you too want an author pic, just email me and next time you're around I'll shoot you. And it will be awesome, and all your photo taking dreams will come true. Just saying.

Have you met Sandy Ponton? This woman is:
1. Stunning. Her hair makes me so angry with jealousy because it's thick and lovely.
2. An awesome writer that's working on a YA paranormal romance. Sigh. Seriously swoon worthy.
3. So exotic because she lives in FORKS! Yep. Vamp and wolf-boy country.

Then there's Ruth.
From afar I've watched Ruth and wanted to be her because her name is fabulous and she's from a small town that I adore. I would tell you which town but that might lead to further cyber-stalking and I don't think she'd be down with that. Right now she's working on a freaking awesome book about awesomeness and romance.

I can't talk about Ruth without bringing up Donna. Donna is amazing and her hubby is on his way home from the war...probably even as I write this. She's also working on some sweet little romance that knocks my socks off. 

Katie. What can I say about Katie that doesn't involve seething jealousy and gnashing of teeth? Ok, that's a bit much, but seriously if you read any of her historical romance you would want to be her. I wish I could write like that. I dreamt about an italian boxer . . . just saying.

Last for today, but certainly not least, is the breath-taking Julie from Kentucky! Julie is currently working on a middle grade Erotica. (ha ha...just kidding.) But she is a future author that writes beautifully. I loved these two pics of her so I'm posting both. Why? Cause I can. 

That's all for today folks! So have a happy Halloween and eats lots of candy.