how i started...

(a submission i recently wrote- without double checking, as usual. That's a fact I have to work on!)





It was a quiet early-summer day and there was absolutely nothing to do.

It was too hot for my sisters to want to play with me and too humid for my parents to take me to the park.

What I did next was the only thing that could quench my boredom...I snuck into my sisters' bedroom, very quietly.

I knew exactly where she kept her diary and I figured that it was as good a time as any to begin reading it.
So I did...thoroughly. Maybe twice.

I had finished reading the last page when an idea struck me-I can publish a family newspaper! Everyone was so busy doing their own interesting and grown up things that they had forgotten all about me.

I began to write and write and write. Than I rewrote the front page about three times (so I can pass it out to my family members- there was no copy machine in my house.)

It now occurs to me that the whole time I wrote and wrote and wrote, no one came to check on me. Seeing me sitting on the floor and writing on something was my usual past time if I was stuck indoors.

Finally, my masterpiece was complete. I wanted to wait to hand them out, but I just couldn't. I headed to the living room and handed out a copy of "Family Times" (a spin on 'Family Ties')

My Mother and Father had practically burst into tears and hugged me into submission before they read the article about my sister's diary...then...

chaos.

There was no time for them to hide the third copy from my sister.

So I ran and ran and ran.

And that's the last time the Family Times was published.

time- see what's become of me

"How much do you want to be a published author? That's how much you have to read."

With the exception of this weekend, it seems as if all I have been doing is reading and writing. My freelancing is working out smoothly and I have been inspired for a lot of my already-started manuscripts and new stories altogether.

It doesn't leave me much time to query literary agents and publishers about my two self-published works.

Today, I am trying to get back into the groove by going over my writing to do list.
Tomorrow, I will continue. I will. I will.

Sigh.

Other than that- the past few months have been very exciting- filled with travel, and good friends. Then, there's always the good food and good wine part.

Yay.

So back to the writing board I go with my thousand ideas. Pray for me! :D

thank you thank you thank you,
christina rozeas

persistence and luck

(Taken from Ray White's Excerpt in How I Got Published)

"Persistence is sending letters again and again, ignoring the rejections, sending more letters, and so on, until somebody caves and takes your book. Luck is buying a lottery ticket. Luck is your Uncle Phil being the manager of a large publishing house, or your cousin's babysitter being the daughter of a top literary agent."


Ok- can someone please tell me if I have any of these things, and maybe i'm too googly to realize it?!

wah.

still waiting.

christina rozeas

inspiration from successful authors

(Excerpt taken from F. Paul Wilson in ('How I Got Published')

"That- the satisfying conclusion part- is, I believe, the best reason for an utline. Count how many novels have done this to you: You're sailing along, digging the prose and the plot and the characters whe, about three-quarters of the way through, you start to notice it falling apart, eventually concluding not with a satisfying bang, not even ith a whimper. It doesn't really end, it just seems...to...dribble...away..."

Ok.

So this happens to me...except, upon completeing 'A Coincidence Away', I figured there just has to be a part 2. Possibly, part 3.

Dear Literary Agents....

I'm still waiting!!

love,
christina rozeas

catch me if you can

i've been on this website, promoting my books...

this one, promoting me and a worthy cause...

on facebook, here, here and here...

but not here:


yet.

supermoon nuttiness

i hope yours is going much better than mine is. i feel cold, and i am extremely irritable..i kind of want to rip the face off LML but i'm sure he feels the same way.i ran my errands this morning and couldn't seem to shake this feeling of crankiness. i figured it HAS to be a result of the supermoon, which is blinding me at this very minute. LML suggested i remove the alias from my book and put it under my name..so I did.

Check me out here.

i figured there are things i need to get going; please be prepared because i believe this list is ridiculous:

• 
  *i need a scanner to help me with some of my book ideas
  *need to get the ball rolling with my GIVEAWAY
  *i'd like to interview inspiring people within the community
  *i need to get back to my freelancing position ;)
  *my blog? i need tabs, and maybe an interesting but clean backdrop. generally, blog help?!
  *i need a publisher to recognize i have so many book ideas i've never seen anywhere before that they should just sign me.
  *i need to take a cooking class, writing class, and i'd like to go into graphic design.
  *oh yeah, #1- finish and self publish all children's stories- and fictional stories *this should take about a year or longer by myself*
  *i need a vacation to get this all done.
  *perhaps an IPad i can take wherever i need to/have to go.
  *i need to market or somehow publicize my books... check them out (and follow!) here and here.
• finish entering my list of writing contests

oh, but my happiest news?!MY FOLLOWERS! I LOVE Y'ALL!

on this blog of mine, i am hoping to include a few giveaways with them soon once i get the above list done!

anyone know a way to help me? you lovely bloggers have much more expertise in this stuff than i do

Where Did All The Cookies Go?

Hello! Welcome to my blog!

My name is Christina Rozeas and I recently published my first children's book, "Where Did All The Cookies Go?"

My assistant helped. This is us:

He's a little camera shy, so that's why I had to draw the pages for my book.

He just never sits still.

This blog will follow my adventures of promoting "Where Did All The Cookies Go?" and everything else I will attempt to publish- and will publish :)

I hope you stick around for the ride!

In case you were wondering: this is our facebook fan page. Please, follow :)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-Did-All-The-Cookies-Go

thanks!

C. R. and Team