Thoughts on this new Spring Day...

Well it's officially Spring but it doesn't feel or look like it. We are suppose to get snow today into tomorrow. Oh well just because it's spring doesn't mean we are going to get balmy temperatures. There are signs of spring though. Last week I saw Crocuses and Snow Drops or Snow Bells coming up in various places around town. My Lilies are showing signs of poking through the soil. Skunks are out which means it's a sure sign of spring...
I am slowly getting editing done on The Kings of Angkor or as Brendan has on one facebook group page, Kings of Angkor or KOA. Another family member has done up two cover examples for my book. I love both. I am hoping to have a bit of control over that when the times comes . The word is getting out there not only about the book but the possibility of a movie. I am looking into ways to get the word out and want to take out a facebook ad when the times comes down the road. I was trying to explain to one of my kids that I will do all it takes to get my book sold . Some authors are quite content to just be regional or only known within their state. I am hoping to get past that. One of my daughters asked me about getting it in the NY Times... I told her every author would love that but to achieve that is some feat indeed but not unattainable...
So these are some of my thoughts on this early spring day.

So I leave you with a burst of color.

Classes and Writing

Well I tried to log into my classes for work but it wouldn't take the information that I provided. So I will have to wait till tomorrow and I'm at work to talk to my supervisor.

Excited that a new Vicki Doudera book will be out. "Killer Listing" is out at Amazon but I would rather wait to buy it at one of our book stores in Camden.
So since it's my day off and I can't start my classes I will write. You don't have to twist my arm I just need to switch gears.

A funny thing happened when Vicki's first book came out. A family member of her's, I think a brother ordered and had shipped her first book to her mother. The only thing was...
We got this Amazon package come to our house. Saw the UPS man drop it on the porch. I went out and at the same time my son Pat came out. He says "What's that?"
I was looking at the package, perplexed that a Amazon package would be coming for me at the house... Pat says "Well open it..." he grabs it not waiting cause I will still standing there perplexed and hadn't looked at the name on the box yet... He opens it up. In there was "A House to Die for". Well that really threw me as I hadn't ordered it or even knew of the author... Then I said to Pat, "Maybe Bob ordered it for me, knowing I love mysteries..." But it was then I flipped over the box and saw the name and the address on the package... It wasn't my name BUT my address. Pat then looked at the book and saw the author's name, he said. "Doudera, Doudera." There is a girl in my class and then as he is talking I get out the laptop and do a search and find out it's the girls Mom. Pat gets on fb and chats with her and we find out the book was suppose to go to her Grandmother who lives down the street. So Pat brought the book to school the next day. Though it was hard to part with a new book...
Fast forward to around Mother's day. Vicki gave a talk at West Bay Rotary. Bob remembering the little incident knew I wanted to now read the book. She had books there for sale and to sign. By the time he got up to her she was all sold out... Then on Mother's Day we were driving by The Owl and the Turtle Bookstore and I saw a sign for her book in the window. We ran in and I found one last signed copy from her book signing a few day before...
I have since been able to talk to Vicki and share all what transpired with her first book. We got a good chuckle over it.
Well now that my fingers are limbered up I will get to work.

My Book

Will try to get on here in the next couple of days BUT I am working hard at editing my book "The Kings of Angkor : Army of a Thousand Elephants". Though if I like the publishers proposal then I will be going with them .Then they will start looking over my book and then hand it back to me... Well then I am on my way to getting published. I am really excited but being cautious and my son Brendan reminded me about movie rights.
Writing for me is very therapeutic and I can't go for too many days before I have to be writing something. Making notes and getting my thoughts in order for the 2nd book. Now some would say 'You aren't even published yet, why write a 2nd book?' Because I want to and it's my story and my characters and I have to continue their story. I have invested a lot of time in this story, their lives as characters... They are part of me.
I am adding a photo of King Jayavarman VII at The Bayon at Angkor Thom.