Oh my, the first 3 months of 2012 are gone! I’m still trying to figure out where they went.
I’m alive, as you can see. Life has been full.
The Progeny has won a spot with The Cavaliers to march this summer in Drum Corp International. That was a huge surprise to us as we thought he would need one more year with The Academy before he was ready musically to make a top-three corp. Obviously, we couldn’t be more proud of him. Needless to say, it has been an emotionally draining time.
I’m also coaching track and field right now. This year they are even paying me for it!
All this to explain why absolutely no writing has occurred since I last posted an installment of Letters. I’ve been reading in my spare time to help me through the stress and as a way to get some studying in. I do learn a lot by reading and feeling what works and what does not. And yes, I would rather be writing!
By admin | January 26, 2012
The writing is slow. I’ve enough new material to post more for you today. I moved the tab thingy so you don’t have to scroll down. I’m in a generous mood. 
Letters 12
Like a lot of folks, our income has fallen off a bit due to the economic times. My job is as a bookkeeper for the family’s construction business. We are celebrating 42 years in business this month. That’s a very long time to be around, especially for a contractor. Alas, times are tough right now and my hours are next to nothing. I make enough to cover gas and a bit of groceries, but that’s about all. And I have a child who excels in music. He has dreams and we are trying to help him live them within our means. Sooooo, I’m looking to publish some of my old work. At this point in time I do not plan to take down anything that is complete. I’ll leave those there to help inspire a new generation of writers like the old guard did for me. However, it is possible that this story will not remain online after I finish the rough draft I’m posting. We’ll see, but I wanted to be up front about things. My husband will become my main editor - he’s actually a great editor though he’s been reluctant to join in with me. I’ll keep you all informed as decisions are made. Until then, thanks for coming along with me on this journey. This story tends to fight me. Sometimes it is just hard to keep moving forward and not rush the pace. I’m trying! LOL!
Happy reading.
~Linnea
By admin | January 12, 2012
Hello folks. We’ve had a lot of excitement in our house and as such, writing has been spotty. I decided a few days ago that I really needed to post something for my followers and started to review the section to get it ready. I realized I needed to add a bit more to a scene and it took me a few days to have the time and peace and quiet to fix it. I finally figured it out today and am ready to release the next part. It even includes a letter or two.
I even moved the page holder thingy down to the right section. Yay me!
Enjoy.
~Linnea
Letters 11
By admin | December 25, 2011
The Progeny has been home from school on winter break since Tuesday. No writing gets done during these breaks. Next week the other “boy” will be home as my husband will be off work through the new year. Soooooo, until I get some peace and quiet back, my writing production will take it in the short.
However, I’ve decided to go ahead and post another section of Letters. You’ve have to scroll down to Part 10, but I know you can do it!
Now I am off to bed.
Merry Christmas to all! Goodnight.
By admin | December 15, 2011
I’ve been really cruising along in my writing the past several days so I decided to appease the (very small) masses and post another block of the story. No links this time since it has only been two days since the last post. You can scroll down from Part 8. You’re all big boys and girls.
FYI I’ve posted about half of the current manuscript now. I like to stay well ahead.
Oh, and you will notice some reoccurring names. I created a ton of characters as well as names for existing P&P characters several years ago for No More Tears. Since then that has been my go-to list when I’m writing. I create new names as needed, so you might recognize someone from A Mother’s Favorite Wish or The Unexpected Entail.
By admin | December 13, 2011
Next bit is up. I made a small change to get my timelines right. William Collins is now a year younger than previously written and is turning 4 at this point of the story. John is still around 2 years old.
Letters Part 8
By admin | November 26, 2011
Head on over to my Facebook page for the results.
If you didn’t win but would like a signed copy of NMT, I’ve ordered some more copies and will sell/ship them to you for $9.00 if you live in the USA.
And really, the big winner is The Academy. Thank you all once again for your votes. You should feel really good about helping a great organization to build great people through great performances.
I will post the names of the winners tomorrow.
By admin | November 22, 2011
Okay folks, the Chase Community Giving voting is closed and winners will be announce tomorrow. It appears that Academy finished in 4th place, which will mean a $100,000 grant from Chase Bank.
I want to say a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you who voted, and got your husbands, wives, children, siblings, parents, other family members and your friends to vote. You have made a DIFFERENCE!
Now then, I need to have a complete list of all who voted, and who many extra votes they collected so I can draw a winner. Actually, I will draw three winners for a copy of No More Tears, An Arranged Marriage by Jan Hahn and Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy by Barbara Tiller Cole. (I’m feeling ebullient at the moment!) If you already have a copy of No More Tears and want something else, I’ll give you a list of other JAFF Authors you can pick from and hopefully fins something you like. Go here to the page I just created to list everyone. You can leave a comment on this post if you are missing or if you have other people’s votes to claim. I thought you could leave one on the page but it seems you cannot, so leave them here.
I’ll have a drawing on Friday. I may even put up a video on Facebook!
By admin | November 21, 2011
As promised last night, here is part 7 of “Letters”. I decided to be industrious and made a link to take you to the right spot. Hope it works properly.
Letters Part 7
By admin | November 20, 2011
I’ll post another bit of letters in the morning after I have a good night’s rest to edit it. Before then, I would like to ask you to do one last thing. There have been some issues with people’s votes getting registered if they were using Google Chrome. And Academy has also seen people who have “liked” Academy, but not actually voted. So if you would take just 30 seconds more and follow this link to The Academy’s Chase Community Giving page. If you voted, you should see in green letting “Thanks for your vote” and a green checkmark in a green box next tot he total number of votes. If you do not see that, and instead see a green box that says Vote, you haven’t voted or your vote did not register.
Finally, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you haven’t voted, do so. If you have, and you have someone else in your household who has a Facebook account, have them vote. This is a really big deal to The Academy and it will set them on a solid financial footing for the next 6-10 years! The food truck desperately needs renovation. And you get a double bang for your buck because this truck is “on call” for use by the American Red Cross, Arizona chapter, for disaster relief duty should it be needed in The Academy’s off season. So far it hasn’t been called to that duty, but it could be at any time.
And if you wish, you can unlike Chase Community Giving. Just wait until after the contest is over.
Linnea