Moving away from that before I make you sneeze!

Since my March 8 birthday–when my agent lunched with one of my editors and presented a series idea she loved!–I have plotted/collaged SIX new books for TWO new series, as well as submitting the next book in my Love Secrets series to that new editor. My brain is AGOG with all these ideas, but one series proposal is turned in and I only need to write some chapters of the remaining new series to get that one rolling. So while I have not been writing *here*, I have most definitely been conjuring!

Even MORE fun: I got an iPad, on the FIRST day they delivered! This is SO not me, as technology is not my first love. But wow, am I excited and hooked on this! Fits in my purse. Got the wireless keyboard so I can write on it–taking it on our 15-day Panama Canal cruise next week and am totally jazzed! This is my little reward for not ever buying a laptop I wasn’t totally needing, and not spending my bucks on an iPhone when everyone else did: I now have precisely the device I want, lightweight enough to be practical for travel–AND it’s a business expense!

That’s the short version of what’s been happening lately! If I sound really happy and bubbly and glad to be living this life, doing what I love–it’s because I am! And I wish you all the same kind of wonderfulness! Have a fabulous spring! More after my cruise!

But this fairy tern also gives us a sense of knowing its own POWER…and that’s my goal now as I approach a birthday, and come to the table for new contracts with ALL of my editors. I have this fine, feisty sense that I will continue the Love Secret series, with a fine new editor; that I will continue to write as Melissa MacNeal for a Kensington editor, and my agent and I also have a new proposal idea for the Dorchester editor who now works at Kensington, for whom I’ve written my Angels of Mercy series, and to whom I originally sold my Love Secret series! And–I began brainstorming with another editor at our NINC conference last fall.

FOUR editors are interested in my work–or at least interested in working with ME right now! I see that as reason indeed to flap my wings and fly high this year!!

I wish you the same sense of optimism as you test your wings and know your own inner strength and power!