The Writing Life: Trish Jensen

From the Novelists, Inc. list:

Author Trish Jensen was rushed to the hospital last week and almost died from massive loss of blood. She's now home and on the mend, but the bills for her hospital stay are expected to be more than $100,000. Unfortunately, she had no insurance at the time.

Friends and fellow authors hope to help with her hospital expenses through a critique project and E-bay book auction. Authors who have already volunteered to help include Jenny Crusie, Jo Beverley, Cathy Maxwell, Maggie Shayne, Sandra Hill, Anne Stuart, Suzanne Forster, Christine Feehan Christie Ridgway, Deb Stover, Judith Arnold, Barbara Samuel, Debra Dixon, Susan Kearney, Lynn Kerstan, Heather MacAllister, April Kihlstrom, Eve Gaddy, Eliza Shallcross, Brenda Hiatt, Karen Harbaugh and many more.

We're currently looking for more published authors to volunteer to critique a synopsis and first chapter (35 pages max) in exchange for a donation of at least $40 to the Trish Jensen Medical Fund.

If there are multiple requests for certain authors' services, those critiques will go to auction on E-bay. If you're an author and willing to critique, please e-mail Teresa Hill at teresamhill@earthlink.net with your name, brief publishing history and the number of critiques you're willing to do. If you have time constraints (such as... only available after Nov. 1) please mention those.

Authors willing to donate autographed books to be auctioned on E-bay, please e-mail Karen Fox at karen@karenafox.com

Anyone who you would like to make a donation, please contact Sharyn Cerniglia at
sharyn.cerniglia@verizon.net.

Writers interested in purchasing a critique please look for our complete list of critiques for sale on or near Oct. 1 at www.teresahill.net -- click on
HELP US HELP TRISH

Readers interested in autographed books may also check www.teresahill.net on or about Oct. 1 for a list of available titles.

Thanks in advance for all your help. Please forward this to any readers or writers who might be interested.
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For those who might be interested, kinzel and I have pledged a rare hardback copy of The Tomorrow Log for the auction. I'm sure there are going to be a bunch of cool books on offer, so it will be well worth checking out Teresa Hill's website.

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BtW: Day Eleven

No writing done yesterday, Day Ten. Don't even ask.

Today...

Project: Lord of the Dance
New words written: Um? 732? See, I realized I'd left out two characters who had to be in the story, so I needed to ...rework... a couple sections. Amid Much Cursing. Plus there's some new stuff. Who knew Ms. Audrey was going to give a speech?
Total words: 4452
Reason for stopping: Eyes hurt.
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May not get anything done tomorrow, due to the pilgrimage to Portland and the talk which is the reason for said pilgrimage. I do think I can get the story done this weekend, though; another 1,000-1,500 words oughta do it.