Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Hope you're having a great holiday (if you're off, enjoy your break, if not, hope work is going well). I'm doing okay, busy as always! Being Co-Owner of The Author Encounter means I don't take a lot of time off at the moment, but I have taken some time off for Christmas, so that was nice. New Years' was pretty uneventful (other than lots of fireworks going off in my neighborhood) which is fine with me.
So, what's being postponed? Two things, actually:
1. The Author Encounter decided to postpone the January 15th event to March 20th for our new theme (more of that will be announced at another time).
2. The release of 2nd edition of Divine Love is currently postponed. Nothing bad, just realized I needed to postpone it. When I have a release date, I'll announce it here and on my social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are the primary places you can find me. Facebook under Bethany Averie, Instagram is @bethany.averie and Twitter is @WriteByBethany).
In other News:
I finished writing my WIP (Work In Progress) on December 31, 2020 at 2:26 a.m. my time. So that's now in the editing process and I've already got a beta reader giving me some awesome notes, so that's really good. I've got a list of agents that I wish to query with this story and we'll see what happens when I get to that point.
I'll be doing another online live Behind The Page for The Author Encounter on February 19, 2021. This one will be with singer/musician/songwriter, Dan Navarro. For years, he and Eric Lowen had a band called Lowen & Navarro and toured, as well as writing songs for such entities as The Bangles. Pat Benetar made their song We Belong famous in the 1980s. I'm excited to sit down with him because when I was in high school (many moons ago!) I interviewed Dan and Eric for my school paper. Dan said something like "The agony of the blank page" which has stuck with me all these years later. So, this interview feels like everything has come full circle. Eric Lowen died in 2012 of ALS, which is sad, but he is definitely NOT forgotten. He was a talented musician, songwriter, and singer. Pre-Covid Dan was still touring, and perhaps if things work out with the vaccine, etc, he'll go back to touring soon.
I'm also working on other novels--writing one of my WIPs that's not finished with the written draft, yet, and I have one other to work on as well. We'll see what happens with these two stories.
As for my family life, today is my husband's birthday and I'm thankful that not only did he take the day off to celebrate, but that he's in good health and I have him in my life. We've been together for more than 10 years and I look to many more years of us being together as well.
Anyway, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day again!
Have A Marvelousy Meritorious Monday!
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