I’m going Indie and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

KISMET’S KISS will be coming out by the end of this month on the Amazon Kindle ebook platform, so the book will be available for any PC, Mac, smartphone, or iPad, as well as on a Kindle itself. (And psst…the third-generation Kindle will be coming out around the same time!)

2010 has been a bit odd for me. I got an offer from a respected small press to publish KISMET’S KISS and thought things were going to work out, but the publisher and I parted ways and I needed to decide what do with this novel. It didn’t take me long to know.

KISMET’S KISS had three agent offers, two publishing contract offers, two Golden Heart nominations, eight contest finals total, and three wins. And I’ve been eager to try publishing on the Kindle platform. I’ve had a Kindle since early 2008, and it has shifted my perspective on many things.

I am completely excited about going DIY with this book!

I’m not making any decisions about my other novels just yet, but meanwhile readers will be able to actually read my work. (That’s quite a concept, after a decade of waiting, LOL.) And I have the joy of creating the cover art and being responsible for the final look and feel of this book. As the author who has lived with this story and its characters for more than four years AND as a perfectionist, I love that!

Life is good. :)

2009 was a very weird year for me. My hubby and I (and the felines) moved across the state twice in five months due to his job. No other way to say it except That Sucked.

And yet, I also got my first contract offer. That Did Not Suck. In the end, I turned down the contract due to a sticky clause in the contract that the publisher wouldn’t negotiate. That was a tough call, but I know I have to be smart and keep an eye on the future.

Now it looks like I’ll have an offer from another publisher. This pub has a good reputation and may be a very nice fit for this book.

My mother has a saying: “It’s not real until it’s real.” She was referring to real estate deals where things could fall apart at the last minute. Nothing was real until the contracts were signed. I think I’ll be patient and follow her lead.

But given the suckage of 2009, I’d like to think that no matter what, 2010 will be a better year. And that’s what we all want at the beginning of a shiny new year.

So I hope that no matter how 2009 treated you, 2010 will rock your house in fantastic ways.

Onward!

Ever fantasize about a fantastic writing office / reading area / home office? Me too. I’m blogging about what would make the perfect space at NobodyWritesItBetter.com today, so come visit. :-)

So, Hubby and I sold our house (quite a feat in this crappy market), packed all our stuff in a 26-foot U-Haul truck and moved out at closing, chewed our nails for a week while we waited on several pending job offers for Hubby, received a great offer and drove selves/U-Haul/stressed-out cats 500 miles, found a great apartment, got the utilities turned on (mostly–the gas for the stove, clothes dryer and hot water goes on tomorrow, YAY for showers) and are now in a space almost as big as our house for less than half the monthly payout. And I still have mountains out my window.

Am v. happy. Except for all these damn boxes of stuff around here. Where’s my Unpacking Fairy?

More from moi when I resurface above the cardboard sea.