Merry Christmas everyone! I just had to let you all know. I have finished my book! The Treasured's Journey. The goal was to be done by Jan. So I am on track! I meet with my agent tomorrow night and she will be sending a copy off to the Library of Congress for registration and start looking for a publisher!!! I'm so excited! It is the best Christmas present I could ever give myself!

starting over, Congrats. You must feel like you're on top of the world. What perfect timing. Now you can really enjoy the season!

Bravo starting over, want a copy when its published, signed of course...

Congrats, starting over!!! Hope you find a publisher soon.

Congrats on completing this MAJOR milestone. I hope you intend to celebrate? You should. Way to go, congrats, you go girl, and all those other pats on the back. This is big. I also hope you will keep us informed as you take the next steps. We would love to be there all the way!

JJ

Way to go Startingover!
I wish you much good luck with it!!!!!

Congratulations...on your book, how exciting.
Can you share, what your book's about?

What a precious gift writers are given...I'm jealous.
Can't tell you how many places I have been, lives I have grown with and new experiences I have had... through writer's thoughts, feelings and eyes.

Merry Christmas.

yethatsme--I'll bet you are a writer-you just need to nurture it. If you view life through the eyes of a writer you just need to take the next step!

My book is titled, The Treasured's Journey.

We as God's daughters are very precious to Him, yet many of us spend each day just surviving. We've been slammed by life and just can't shake off what's happened to us. Many can't see the Bible as applicable to today AND many Christians can't truly relate to it either.

I have taken creative liberty to develop backgrounds for 18 stories, adding details of emotions and reactions in crisis, followed by scripture, then a study to help glean the keys we can apply to our own lives to stand and survive life's crisis with victory.

Once you realize that their emotions and reactions in crisis are the same as we have today--even if the circumstances are different you can then begin to apply the biblical principles to your own life.

I'm going to have to figure out a shorter way to say all that, but in a nutshell that's it. At the end of each chapter there is an assignment and journal pages to help the reader get out what has been buried so that (hopefully) by the end of the book they are living in new emotional, spiritual freedom.

Starting over, I love books that give homework. I need to take what I read and make it real by applying it to my life. When will it be published?

Dotsie,

Not sure. I am working with an agent. It has been sent to the copyright office for registration and then it's just looking for the right publisher--the rest is God's timing....

I'm praying for soon!

I love books that ask me to apply what I've learned too--it's the only way things 'stick' for me!

I'll keep you posted!