Let Me Explain...

Before I share news of my novel, I feel I should explain my downsizing from website to blog.

The sad truth is that I cannot come up with enough interesting content to maintain an entire website, and the pressure was killing the muse! : ) Heck, some nights, I can hardly come up with enough interesting content to maintain a dinner conversation with my husband! Yep. My life is that exciting!

Originally, I started the website as a way to promote my novel until I became so frustrated with the slower than slow publishing process that I took the, "I'll believe it when I see it" approach. I could write a book about how NOT to publish a book, and, now that I can laugh about most of it, maybe one day I will. I have met some great people at Melange Books, though, and I can't wait to tell you more about them.

As for my blog title...well, all of those clever titles playing on the word "write" are taken. Trust me--I tried about a hundred thousand of them! So, Authorized Mom it is, but this should not imply that I feel authorized to be a mom (although I have managed to keep my children fed, educated, and mostly bathed for over a decade, and I plan to set up counseling funds so they can one day be assured by a professional that I am indeed the cause of all of their problems and deep-seated flaws!). However, this is not about authority, because who would I be fooling?! 

It's about BECOMING an author--being author-ized--because novel writing is a whole lot different than the safe anonymity of writing articles. I'm worried it will feel less like being mesmerized and more like being tenderized or euthenized, but that's just my sunny, optimistic, not-at-all cynical way of looking at things! Author-ized Mom is about my journey into this world of fiction all while being pulled constantly back into reality with that overly repeated phrase that sounds more like a single word: "MomCanI..."

And, since I hear a "MomCanI..." skipping down the hallway, it's time to get to the point.

I am both excited and terrified to announce that my first novel, Broken by Design, is scheduled to make its first public appearance on July 22nd!

I will keep you posted as I keep posting! Thanks for reading!