The secret to writing a book is to write. It's as simple as that. If you write a page every single day, at the end of a year, you'll have a good-sized book. If you write two pages a day, at the end of the year you'll have a really long book or a couple of books. Of course, to write a good book, you've got to rewrite, so it might take longer, but the secret is to write the pages. You can't rewrite if you haven't written. You can't do it some day. You just have to write. Even when you don't really feel like it. Even when you think there are a million things to get done. Because the fact is, there are always important things that need to get done. If you wait for the perfect time to write, you never write.

I really wanted to get to work on the many things I've got to get done but instead I chose to write my pages. I got my ten pages done so the day was a success. I didn't finish my edits on When It's Time to Call it a Day but I made a lot of progress. We're in the final stretch. I got some re-edits back from my Carpatian Shadows authors, so we're good to go there--except that little date issue. I think I am going to have to flip a coin--that's what I threatened them if they didn't answer the date question for me (the question is, is the back story 16th century or 1600s.)

I finished reading THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION. This is a really interesting book. I'd never known that FDR had proposed a section of Alaska as a homeland for Jewish refugees back in 1940. The senator from Alaska objected long and hard, eventually defeating the proposal. It's interesting to think how the world would be different. Would Israel have come into existance if there had been an alternative? How would American have dealt with a couple of million Jews who didn't assimilate, didn't fit with the locals, didn't settle in New York? Author Michael Chabon makes it a sort of Chinatown-type story. You know the end has to be sad even if it's happy. Now I'm reading THE ELVES OF CINTRA by Terry Brooks.

I'm going to make THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS by Robyn Anders the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. Years before, she was the high school princess and he was the bad boy she lusted after but would never talk to. Now things have changed. But surely someone as dangerous as he is still terribly wrong for a girl like her. Humor and romance at their best. And it's only $2.99. Learn more, read the excerpt, or buy the entire eNovel here: www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/truthcats.html. Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

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