lacey kaye | romance with color

Manuscript is COMPLETE! Woo hoo! I finished phase 1 on schedule, which is even more exciting. Today I started phase 2 two days early, which makes me think I might be able to meet my second milestone, too. (I’m planning to submit to agents starting June 30th).

I’m loving the story even though (or perhaps because) I cut 54 pages today. Monday, if not tomorrow, I’ll continue phase 2 by walking through my heroine’s scenes one by one. Can’t wait!

88 65 pages left! My new synopsis was stamped off by Janice, the goddess of storylines, so I’m ready to finish and jump right into revisions.

Revisions should start next month! My plan has been to finish by April 17th (the date of the next Maven retreat!) so I need to write 16 pages each weekend between now and then to catch up. But that’s not impossible, and I believe I can do it if I try.

I’m totally psyched to finish now that I have my first feedback! Janice said, “I can relate to every female hope and dream and fear you put her through. That transition fascinates me, touches my girly heart.” Squee!

My new manuscript is 60% complete! You should expect to see it sailing around New York in June. In the mean time, I’ve started up a Facebook Fan page where you can get day-to-day, nearly minute-to-minute updates on everything from my battles with Ashlin (WHY does he never seem to do what I want him to do?) to my critique partner squees (ERICA RIDLEY’S BOOK IS OUT MARCH 2ND! Go! Run! Grab your copy of Too Wicked to Kiss before it’s TOO LATE!).

Thanks for stopping by! 2010 is feeling like a great year!

Last year, I posted a ton of writing-related goals and some personal ones. The personal goals summed up to two things: increasing my self-confidence and improving my performance at work.

I decided to focus on the personal goals, naming 2008 “The year Lacey becomes Awesome.” Many readers followed my progress through this blog, which I’ve since taken down (distraction, ahem, and also my posts became too personal to put on the internet for work reasons – though I retain the right to resume blogging whenever I feel like it, so there).

I LOVED 2008. Amazing things happened: I lost 35 lbs, got promoted, dated some smokin’ hot guys (WITH JOBS), went skydiving, celebrated my birthday in Vegas with my best girlfriends, became BFF with “the guys” at work (I love you!), taught myself to love running and yoga, became licensed to ride a motorcycle, forced my family to Erica’s house for our first-ever family vacation (hehehe…I did say this year was all about me), FINALLY signed up for facebook (oh, now THAT isn’t a time suck…), learned a TON about male/female relationships, got a crackberry and discovered true internet addiction, spent Christmas in Miami and took advantage of the nightlife opportunities for the first time (I was definitely not that cool in high school), and got a 5 out of 5 on my annual performance review. And that’s just what I remember.

But I didn’t progress an inch on my writing goals. I KNOW I can do anything I set my mind to. But, like Erica said in her Mavens’ post, writing was not a priority. I can’t say for sure it’s going to be a priority this year, either – it turns out, having a life is a lot of fun! and writing takes a lot of time – but maybe if I do a little less angsting over a certain guy, I can find a chapter a week in me We’ll see.

I’m super excited to announce Scene 1 of If You Asked an Angel to Love is complete! Though long overdue, this is a novel I am convinced will sell…as soon as I get it written. Which should be a piece of cake, as I have a storyboard, and suddenly, it turns out, a lot of time. (And no money to fill it with endless going out, which is certainly helping.)

Thanks for checking in here at laceykaye.com  To all my loyal readers asking WTH happened to my archives, the answer is that I took them down. The posts and all your fabulous comments still exist, they just don’t exist in a world at constant odds with my (quasi) professional work persona. Maybe I should go undercover, and blog about my vixenating and other otherwise unspeakable shenanigans under a real pen name…

However, if you’re on Facebook and you friend me*, you can be assured you will receive near-constant updates wrt my daily activities. I’ve noticed nearly everyone in the romance community is on Facebook these days, so going through the painstaking process of signing up is a really good deal. Plus, it’s extremely addictive. Just think – you could have been up-to-the-minute on my motorcycle licensing course this past weekend. Where else would you get that sort of seat-of-your-pants entertainment??

*I tend to ignore people I don’t know I know, so let me know I know you!

I’m going to try something new – I’m copying Darcy Burke’s website format. Those of you who’ve been reading my blog for a long time know that I believe strongly in not adding stress when it’s not necessary. The not-blogging guilt is starting to get to me, so instead of making more time for blogging (time?!), I’m making less blog. I hope you enjoy the new format!