I just printed it for tonight's reading pleasure. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Last edited by Susan Stec (05-23-2011 10:47:37)

Susan....I'll be back working on UTAT soon. I just finished polishing OWD for my summer critique group. I rewrote chapter 16, Rider Ceremony, and did a new epilogue. Chapters 16-20 didn't change much, just recombined them. I'd like to have you read ch 16 and ch 21 (the epilogue) at least. If you have time, you can read the others for flow. Thanks!

Great to see you back Ann,  I'll be digging into your chapters some more tonight.

hahahaha I already snagged it for my reading pleasure. hahahahaha

Yep, that's it.  I hope I tied up the major issues, and the nagging loose ends will continue in the next book. I have another one already written (very rough) but I need one more between the two. Taking a break and trying to get this one published first.

Today has been a very exciting day for me. Got an email from Briona Glen Publishing.....are you ready?
They want to publish On A Wing and a Dare!

In my query (that you all helped me with) I mentioned that fans of Anne McCaffrey and Robin McKinley would like my book. The editor said they were two of her favorite authors and she thinks I'm better than both of them. yikes  She wants 'at least' a trilogy.  I have some items to work on for rewrites, most of which is relatively minor.  Right now I'm floating. I'll ask for help with the two major issues tomorrow from my TNBW fans!

I could NOT have polished this novel without the help of this forum. Thank you, my friends!

Congratulations again, Ann.  I'm doing the happy dance!  Woooo-Hoooo!

Congrats Ann!!  I can't believe how many of you are getting published.  I can believe it having read most of you now that I think of it.  I hope you do write a trilogy, would love to know what happens next in High Meadow.

Sounds good Ann.  Can't wait to see your book available on Amazon.  Let us know so we can buy copies.

Ann Walters wrote:

Look at this killer idea for making the whole poison/sickness thing stronger. Got it from a friend who works with water supplies.

Perhaps the poison comes from the extract of the deadly nimberry bush which everybody knows contains a deadly toxin. Only the toxin doesn't come from the nimberries themselves. There are these little red worms that lay their eggs in the nimberries. And when the larvae hatch, they excrete toxin into the nimberries, protecting their fellow larvae from being eaten by animals who will die if they chomp down a nimberry (and the little red worms' brothers and sisters.) But now horses are being poisoned with nimberry extract, and the berry extract has passed through the horses GI tract complete with a few worms and somehow reached the well at one of the barns. There's enough decomposed biomaterial in the soil around the well to feed the little worms who are now laying eggs in the water supply. You have these microscopic worms in the water supply who once inside your GI tract secrete an enterotoxin similar to cholera and are life threatening to any creature that drinks the water from this well.

I mean red worms secreting toxin into berries? Is that super cool for YA or WHAT?  Rita, I know this will tickle your scientific side...

Oh HELL yes!

lol Lee!  I've got the new version up through chapter 18. Those who want to skim for the new chapters about the nimberries, I put in the chapter summary which ones those are. Chapter 18 is newly republished--it reveals the new culprit behing the poisoning. I'd appreciate some look-sees, thanks!

Thanks, Unbar!