Category: livejournal entry

I realize everyone else in the world read this book a couple of years ago, but I just now got to it:

Most of the people whose Livejournals I follow are friends of mine, either in real life or online — people that I share interests with and have plenty to talk about. I’ve started following a handful of publishing blogs, and I might possibly have found several pug owners who post pictures of their dogs frequently. I even worship at the altar of the Comics Curmudgeon.

However, elysesewell doesn’t fit into any of these categories. She was a contestant on “America’s Next Top Model” — a show that I once watched approximately 3 minutes of, and if Elyse was a part of that, I don’t recall. A friend who does watch the show mentioned that Elyse blogged, and I checked it out; since then, I cannot wait for each of her posts. She writes about what it’s really like to be a model: sharing a temporary apartment in Santiago with five bulimic teenagers, the petty humiliations of casting sessions, and the absurdity of the fashion world. She’s worked on at least four continents since I’ve been reading, and she explores every city top to bottom, willing to eat the indescribable, take the metro with signs in a language she doesn’t read, and snap pictures of odd product names that misuse English.

And how can you not love a girl who poses for a snapshot next to every billboard or large ad that features her glamorously made-up face — flipping herself off?

Pretty much everything I love about Elyse’s blog is found in today’s post regarding her current assignment, a top-secret ad that I think is filming in Hong Kong. Read. Enjoy. And remember — your job’s not that bad.

From the beginning, I’d thought that Evernight would come out in fall of this year, but it turns out I’m wrong; apparently the plan has long been for the book to be published in summer 2008. Although I’m eager to see my book in print, I really think the later date is going to work better for a lot of reasons. But the suspense!

I am sort of in limbo right now, waiting for my editorial notes on Evernight before I start work on book two in the series, Stargazer. I already know a lot of what happens — I submitted a rough outline for books two through four back in October, and my editor gave me the thumbs-up for the overall plot structure — but I’d still feel more comfortable plunging into the detailed outline after I know precisely what will and won’t change in Evernight.

Speaking of detailed outlines, I checked out First Draft in 30 Days:

Good news: Evernight went to the editor January 16. I don’t have an editorial note to work from yet, but I know that my editor is happy and isn’t asking for major revisions. This is definitely a relief and frees me to dive into the second book in the series, which is tentatively titled Stargazer.

Those interested in learning a little more about the books’ setting, Evernight Academy, might want to check out evernightupdate, which will offer a little news from time to time.

I hope to get both my author website and an Evernight website running within the next month to six weeks. I’ll let you guys know as soon as they’re ready!

— that writing a sexy scene you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, will in fact be read by your parents?

SOUL DEATH.

::taps mic:: Is this thing on?

This LJ will be focused on my professional writing, specifically starting with the Evernight series of vampire novels that HarperCollins will begin publishing next year. This post is mostly just to get the journal started, but I’ll write more about how the writing/editing/etc. is going as time passes.