Another Anniversary

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February is my absolute favorite month. It always has been. Even before it held any real meaning for me.  And as another trivia question answer, the 17th is my favorite number. I don’t know why except to say it’s just always been that way.

Now I have real reasons to <3 both of those things, because 15 years ago on this day (it was President’s day, in case you care) was the day my now husband asked me out on our first date.  (Well, asking is probably too much, it was more of a I’d really like to go out with you and I’m not taking no for an answer. :P)

Three years later to the day, we got married. And now 12 years after that, we’re still married. And happily. I think I love him more now than I did then.  🙂 Plus we have 2 fabulous kids.

Sure, we’ve had some rough times (read VERY rough), but we’ve always weathered through them. Together. We’ve always worked better as a team, then when we do things separately. And I was reminded of that this weekend, while trying to finish a project around the house.

My husband dropped a bit (an expensive bit) inside the wall (long story) and no matter how he tried to get it out himself, he couldn’t. Even when our son tried to help, he couldn’t get it out.  But when I helped (it took awhile) we managed to work as a team and get it out without broken fingers, egos, or the bit.  I’d say that was a job well done.

But, anyway, I digress. I just wanted to send out a shout-out to my awesome husband on one of the most important days of my life.

I love you, honey!  Thank you for 15 wonderful years. Here’s to many, many more.

XOXO,

Jess

A few thank yous (and news)

>I know I’ve been absent a lot from this blog lately, but it has been CRAZY around here.  Phew!  Especially this past month with two books having deadlines a week apart. 0.o But, I LOVE it. I wouldn’t change a thing.

Anyway, onto the post!

Today marks the two year anniversary of when my agent (the fab Natalie Lakosil) offered representation! I am just as excited now as I was then to say she’s my agent.  She’s been awesome, even when I wanted to yank my hair of of my head and bang it’s baldness against my desk (or a handy wall) repeatedly.

She’s dealt with my impatience and insecurities without batting so much as an eyelash. And she never once made me feel like I was unimportant. In fact, most of the time, she’s made me feel like I was her only client, which obviously isn’t true.

So I just wanted to send a public thank you to her for all her awesomeness!

Foreign Rights Sale: Jessica Souders’ RENEGADE to Piper in Germany, by Taryn Fagerness of Fagerness Literary Agency on behalf of Natalie Lakosil of Bradford Lit.

More news on that when it comes.

Some personal news, I’ll share tomorrow. 🙂

And last, but not least, since I can’t ever sit still for long, I’m excited about a new project that’s been itching to be written for awhile now. More news on THAT later.

I’ll try to keep up with this a bit more now that my crazy days are a little less crazy.

Until later,

Adieu!

Follower Love Giveaway

>Thanks to everyone who entered the hop!  It was a huge success as far as I’m concerned! 

In case you didn’t see it on the giveaway post, the winner is:

Cover reveal contest winner

>Oh my gosh, guys! I’ve been so flaky lately and I totally forgot to announce the winners for this! 

So without further adieu or delay.  The winner is:

LOUISA

Email me at j.souders (at) jasouders (dot) com with your address and I’ll get that prize out to you ASAP. 

"That’s YAmore" Blogfest

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Can you believe that there’s only a few days left until Valentine’s Day 2012?  And once again I’m absolutely delighted to join my Oasis sister’s in our 2nd annual That’s YAmore Blogfest where we share 250 words of our most swoon worthy scene in a WIP. If you’ve started here, or stumbled here by mistake, and want to learn more, click here to be taken to the Oasis post that explains it better.

Unfortunately, I do not have a current WIP and the stuff I’ve been working on is revisions and edits for contracted work and I don’t think I’m allowed to share anything from them yet. 😛 

So…I’m choosing one of my absolute FAVORITE scenes from a completed work called MIRROR IMAGE.  I do hope one day that this will also become published, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy a peek at one of my unpublished works (with that in mind, please keep in mind that while it’s been revised by me, it’s still VERY rough).

And…that’s all I could fit in the 250 words.  I hope you enjoyed.  Don’t forget to visit the other blogs that are participating in the That’s YAmore blogfest!