tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31405809048288347022024-03-05T22:02:34.672-06:00Rockets2WritingRocket Science by Day, Writing by NightJamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-20464586683065337882023-09-10T16:04:00.001-05:002023-09-12T16:01:55.462-05:00And The Tracker Sequence Book 2 Title is...<p>If you're a newsletter subscriber you already know the title to book 2 in The Tracker Sequence but if not, what are you waiting for? Sign up <a href="https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/532798/95056881490331119/share" target="_blank">here</a> and you'll be the first to know all my exciting news.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now without further ado...</p><p><br /></p><p>The title to book 2 in The Tracker Sequence is...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAexNLoPix9iiSEDgDR_nIRv92w-IYSyK3_3yyBjrl5k20CIr9whsxuvO9HBq1Ci9HOqqrW1PFFcERgaG9GLfGHe1TRukQvQajtzMIpIhUcNC5F13njwkVtHu_K8YfbqivxwiM2cUqFdywBkHPDxlImFVTFRDnSGmbbeL7JBsrx_5zxrdk7KiIDK6njiM/s1144/Authority%20-%20The%20Tracker%20Sequence%20Book%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1144" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAexNLoPix9iiSEDgDR_nIRv92w-IYSyK3_3yyBjrl5k20CIr9whsxuvO9HBq1Ci9HOqqrW1PFFcERgaG9GLfGHe1TRukQvQajtzMIpIhUcNC5F13njwkVtHu_K8YfbqivxwiM2cUqFdywBkHPDxlImFVTFRDnSGmbbeL7JBsrx_5zxrdk7KiIDK6njiM/w522-h239/Authority%20-%20The%20Tracker%20Sequence%20Book%202.png" width="522" /></a></div><br /><p>That's right, book 2 is called Authority! If you haven't already added it to your Goodreads to read list you can find it <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109814142-authority?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=E4BajVW90a&rank=1" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm so excited to finally share the title (and stop referring to it as Book 2). The title Authority has many meanings in the sequel, some you may be able to guess if you've read Tracker220 and others that will likely be a surprise as you read the sequel.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I'm not going to spoil any of the surprises yet. Stay tuned, as there's lots more fun reveals as I share more details about Authority!<br /></p>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-53681975374445476642023-08-12T20:07:00.003-05:002023-08-12T20:10:35.674-05:00Guess the Title of Book 2 in the Tracker Sequence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGq4YPgzmCINrYUBOr8XlNWe0znu-OoD6oj3s1QwHsW393u9InNv9msLn5oJ2We8cOzH2mg4CVr-K95HoCjJJe8xdrxZkLBYA2v4budNA19QGHfxy06RhybL7XxkcSlgDVKmG0Y56j5b2qbmno2ooTETVCNvHdlF0FJnvUAMHMcjrsUg0CgJ4lZ2dEHZM/s1202/Tracker220%20is%20getting%20a%20sequel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="902" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGq4YPgzmCINrYUBOr8XlNWe0znu-OoD6oj3s1QwHsW393u9InNv9msLn5oJ2We8cOzH2mg4CVr-K95HoCjJJe8xdrxZkLBYA2v4budNA19QGHfxy06RhybL7XxkcSlgDVKmG0Y56j5b2qbmno2ooTETVCNvHdlF0FJnvUAMHMcjrsUg0CgJ4lZ2dEHZM/s320/Tracker220%20is%20getting%20a%20sequel.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Next month I'll be revealing the title to book 2 in the Tracker Sequence, the sequel to TRACKER220. In the meantime, you have the opportunity to guess the title. And just by submitting a guess you'll be entered for a chance to win a copy of TRACKER220.</p><p><br /></p><p>In case you missed my newsletter, here's some clues:</p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The title is one word.</li><li>The title is connected to the first book.</li><li>The title starts with the letter A.</li><li>The title is 9 letters long</li><li>I've had the title picked out since I knew there was going to be a sequel</li></ol><p>Ok I cheated on that last one. It's more of a fun fact than a clue. I was fairly certain there would be a sequel before I finished writing TRACKER220 and when I knew there was enough material for a sequel, I had the title picked out almost instantly. So, YES, I've been sitting on the sequel news for a while, but I wanted to get it written to make sure I could finish it. #SorryNotSorry</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that you have some clues, go submit your guess. You don't have to be right to win BUT if you guess right I'll throw in one of the first early copies of the sequel when it's done. With stakes that high you should go enter now!</p><p><br /></p><p>Then check out my newsletter next month to find out what the title is. And if you aren't <a href="https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/532798/95056881490331119/share" target="_blank">subscribed</a>, now is the perfect time. Then you'll be one of the first to know! </p><p><br /></p>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-24665395682944901642023-02-10T13:00:00.031-06:002023-02-13T07:34:07.931-06:00I Have EXCITING News!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>First off, hi everyone. Sorry this space has been so badly neglected. The reason for that? Almost all of my updates have been on social media and in my monthly newsletter. If you're not already signed up for my newsletter you can do that by filling out the form on the right side of the blog or by visiting this <a href="https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7n3u8" target="_blank">link</a>. (Make sure to confirm your subscription). It's filled with all kinds of things like what I'm up to currently, what I'm reading, book deals and giveaways, and the latest Rocket Science news. <br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>And if you are subscribed to my newsletter then you got an early peak at my BIG EXCITING news. But if you didn't see the newsletter, don't fret. I'm going to tell you the BIG news right now. But also make sure to check out my most recent newsletter because there's even more exclusive content that won't be on the blog.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>So without further ado... Here's a hint... At the end of December I finished a REALLY awesome YA Sci Fi project that I've been keeping a secret for a LONG time. In completing that manuscript, I got to type some of my favorite words...<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9ajvNA3A7CCgeACik-y_1kJBocv_AhNUDEhs4VCfhiHKLIkQ_-16Nq3wT7aR8m_koQetq3KAxPKwguW8P-uTipoBk3aWVXEjZS_cU6ihnud6qaa1vnEncSVsBdOkmRYGi40Sto5EGNlunZGWukx4QSNs9hzXBBrpgJT7rR7K65ICShxezv429QER/s622/The%20End.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="622" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9ajvNA3A7CCgeACik-y_1kJBocv_AhNUDEhs4VCfhiHKLIkQ_-16Nq3wT7aR8m_koQetq3KAxPKwguW8P-uTipoBk3aWVXEjZS_cU6ihnud6qaa1vnEncSVsBdOkmRYGi40Sto5EGNlunZGWukx4QSNs9hzXBBrpgJT7rR7K65ICShxezv429QER/s320/The%20End.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ok ok, that picture is more than just the words THE END. It's ACTUALLY a clue to my big secret. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Did you pick up on the clue? Do you recognize that font?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe this will help...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qgaUYIO52BnXCdWkyuioH-Sj_xitLgoePs5pLXNuSGP3KPA38hSpa9NZCJcl1caaN2E13UGcGYxDvUTYRgVXhV7kE9WQ75P-tPI5KGS1qWFLC46xranJ94xlvFljGeLfbou-OCefFDNEbxwRt3_EReQE7K_8QWVpWaW9cYtJHv9mljV8abvHzKAE/s1380/Tracker220%20Available%20now%20banner%20book.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1380" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qgaUYIO52BnXCdWkyuioH-Sj_xitLgoePs5pLXNuSGP3KPA38hSpa9NZCJcl1caaN2E13UGcGYxDvUTYRgVXhV7kE9WQ75P-tPI5KGS1qWFLC46xranJ94xlvFljGeLfbou-OCefFDNEbxwRt3_EReQE7K_8QWVpWaW9cYtJHv9mljV8abvHzKAE/w400-h231/Tracker220%20Available%20now%20banner%20book.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> So what's the news you ask?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, if you guessed it's related to Tracker220 you'd be right!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I'll let this picture speak for itself...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUh1zAIU975mWl1NgJ4Z9GtKBn4XfeGGnSpbVvIrGqnGSXS-KBJ79G3J-IQbV6PwpuualcfoArRUbUPbLMAq_jaUzTXb4Y1rS4hgv8CgU3Cqe9lz-lyeF7pANRv2t_r1qhc3lsy2282_7UHnDNUCTAoLCMn9WMRjy6eo1VX80cxptUmAQDzQTSQgHO/s1103/Tracker%20is%20getting%20a%20sequel%20me-crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1028" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUh1zAIU975mWl1NgJ4Z9GtKBn4XfeGGnSpbVvIrGqnGSXS-KBJ79G3J-IQbV6PwpuualcfoArRUbUPbLMAq_jaUzTXb4Y1rS4hgv8CgU3Cqe9lz-lyeF7pANRv2t_r1qhc3lsy2282_7UHnDNUCTAoLCMn9WMRjy6eo1VX80cxptUmAQDzQTSQgHO/w596-h640/Tracker%20is%20getting%20a%20sequel%20me-crop.jpg" width="596" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">You read that right! </span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wrote a sequel to Tracker220!!!<br /></span><br /><br /><br />I'm sure you have tons and TONS of questions about it and I hope to answer some of them over the course of 2023. <br /><br /><br /><br />For now I will say, it takes place six months after the events of Tracker220 and all your favorite characters will be there along for the ride. <br /><br /><br /><br />Stay tuned as there's lots more to come including a </span><span style="font-size: medium;">title reveal, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">cover reveal, plot details, release date, and so much more!<br /><br /><br /><br />I can't wait to tell you all about it!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">And if you want to be the first to know all the specifics, subscribe to <a href="https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7n3u8" target="_blank">my newsletter.</a> (hint hint)</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if you're super excited, you can add it the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109814142-the-tracker-sequence-2?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zhaOcPWNlK&rank=1" target="_blank">new tracker sequel</a> to your goodreads to read list.</span></span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><br /> <br /></span></p><p></p>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-22915611270836545172021-05-20T07:00:00.120-05:002021-05-20T20:49:50.714-05:00BOWS 2021 - Making the Tracker220 Cover<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Welcome to the first ever <a href="https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book-owl-word-search/" target="_blank">Book Owl Word Search</a> (#BOWS2021). BOWS is a fun interactive web search where you get to learn about amazing authors and their books and you collect secret words so you can win cool prizes like books from the participating authors. I'm on the <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book-owl-word-search/bows-teams/" target="_blank"><b>BLUE </b></a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book-owl-word-search/bows-teams/" target="_blank">team</a>. Check out all my teammates below. If you collect my secret word and all of theirs you can enter to win something from every author on the team. Then check out the Purple and Orange teams as well for a chance to win equally amazing prizes from them. For more information on how to play visit the <a href="https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book-owl-word-search/bows-how-to-play/" target="_blank">BOWS website</a>.<br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsh47PXTwCVc4Ar5EYy-JaTA_esGtLNGJfecMDNLGkAbLQKGzH7MJqVI4IhMBhgQ39MQHhoWeP5_lohFZZyfRaaTMxQUQonfygxuV5Z7E1dYRaJcmVFrxJCFZvIh4s_iG9TV1b_m8dMk/s750/BlueTeamIGSquare-updated.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsh47PXTwCVc4Ar5EYy-JaTA_esGtLNGJfecMDNLGkAbLQKGzH7MJqVI4IhMBhgQ39MQHhoWeP5_lohFZZyfRaaTMxQUQonfygxuV5Z7E1dYRaJcmVFrxJCFZvIh4s_iG9TV1b_m8dMk/w400-h400/BlueTeamIGSquare-updated.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">And without further ado, I've got a really cool post for you, one that you voted for in a twitter poll. I'm going to walk through how I worked with my amazing cover artist, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JenniferStolzerIllustration" target="_blank">Jennifer Stolzer</a> (she's also a writer so check out her awesome books too) to get to the amazing final product you can see here.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNLlxVOIpLGuwcS7Ff4FamCNEhsJdsC_fIJaQFsK20rWUG_huFj-C-qNKohY2R6kYbsmniUJk7mLAMQzd5OmxFXI9x8GVC7rip3T8JZv8jcs7j55gv46cH8r2w54EHOk5js4k-6QpqvY/s2048/tracker220_cover_jpeg_cmyk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="2048" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNLlxVOIpLGuwcS7Ff4FamCNEhsJdsC_fIJaQFsK20rWUG_huFj-C-qNKohY2R6kYbsmniUJk7mLAMQzd5OmxFXI9x8GVC7rip3T8JZv8jcs7j55gv46cH8r2w54EHOk5js4k-6QpqvY/w400-h284/tracker220_cover_jpeg_cmyk.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: black;">There's so many things I love about the cover and I'll walk you through how I got to this final product. I started with the main premise for the book, a world where everyone has tracking chips in their heads and the main character is 16-year-old Kaya Weiss. I knew I wanted something to show brain activity or neurons as well as the silhouette of a teenage girl. I knew this because when I was writing Tracker220, I often listened to music when I was in coffee shops. And on my ipod, the song superheroes popped up and I happened to glance at the screen and noticed the album cover and thought hmmm something along the lines of this would be cool for a cover for this book. Of course at the time I had no idea if Tracker220 would ever get published.</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYGgDez-pW3h8y5B5KleiTZkb2M5OETpFxAYA6DOPyZsaZ7N8POll2T1SRVErtu2BfEangYWCRE3yKkn0zn3DJa3WVX6GEhisfZFtWEiPSxJ7rMuKz1KojJMVsc80jKei15e13yN5hwo/s425/The+Script.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="425" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYGgDez-pW3h8y5B5KleiTZkb2M5OETpFxAYA6DOPyZsaZ7N8POll2T1SRVErtu2BfEangYWCRE3yKkn0zn3DJa3WVX6GEhisfZFtWEiPSxJ7rMuKz1KojJMVsc80jKei15e13yN5hwo/w400-h400/The+Script.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: black;">Now you'll notice some pretty stark differences between this album cover and my book cover. But there's also some similar themes and what really spoke to me was the neural networks within the silhouettes. </span></span><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward many years later and I wanted to post my story on Swoon Reads to get some feedback, but I needed a cover image. Now I'm no artist, the best I can do is epic stick figures. The Swoon Reads site however suggested using stock images, so I went hunting for something that felt like my book. I have no idea what I searched exactly but this image popped up and I instantly knew it was the one.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimRrYqjHekRF28P2UEez0-G86xIP4F0jnbLONk2TYtN0s9u_9Cd5-9XyqzV2cobEWrKcfiISIA-I1c_PePpJgJEKTbse5ZCeUKW1PwRjx9T1ctwMnuTbMV94TwXD-cgGgAIkniwEbC-do/s221/cover+art+stock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="217" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimRrYqjHekRF28P2UEez0-G86xIP4F0jnbLONk2TYtN0s9u_9Cd5-9XyqzV2cobEWrKcfiISIA-I1c_PePpJgJEKTbse5ZCeUKW1PwRjx9T1ctwMnuTbMV94TwXD-cgGgAIkniwEbC-do/w393-h400/cover+art+stock.jpg" width="393" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: black;">It had all the right feel to it, so I slapped on some fun fonts and called it a cover. A couple years later when I finally decided to indie publish Tracker220, I knew I had to go back to this image. It just felt right. So I sent it off to Jennifer with some incoherent babbling about a neural network, a tracking chip, and a Jewish star necklace because the main character is Jewish and the way she interacts with the tracking technology causes her to question her Jewish identity. I wanted to represent the effects of the <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>tracker</b></span> network (yes, you guessed it, my secret word is <span style="color: #2b00fe;">TRACKER</span>!). Jennifer told me to go find a font and so I did and then a short while after she came back with this rough image.</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MYrHLw-DLyTUDDVsRAyu3aSYoVDxyu69pjsAOoRf6IaqMpxMWYvZWPHaG5AxGpG8zfTuAAVi4TZjfl6C9BAsvFMCW50QehHKGe5k5LZ1-szWRXGOZHZvebwHvAqK6W-DLXryD52w6uo/s960/rough+1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MYrHLw-DLyTUDDVsRAyu3aSYoVDxyu69pjsAOoRf6IaqMpxMWYvZWPHaG5AxGpG8zfTuAAVi4TZjfl6C9BAsvFMCW50QehHKGe5k5LZ1-szWRXGOZHZvebwHvAqK6W-DLXryD52w6uo/w278-h400/rough+1.png" width="278" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: black;">I was instantly excited. It had so much potential already. And she already took my crazy talk and knew exactly what I was looking for. I told her as much, so she went to work smoothing it out. But before she got to far another image came, with a what do you think of this?</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjjv3vP4djyPQD2b0eKMygrTKhuC7PezlWHOMH15_N62zUeoR_YgUwuPhrpb1aZVvlQaLPQQ0IIdvazHT-SdB42yN7U4wHzQ-FBx_eNuQYwTC3ww4yMmMZymRvDygFL1_sZxOhuJMQaQ/s2048/full+rough+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="2048" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjjv3vP4djyPQD2b0eKMygrTKhuC7PezlWHOMH15_N62zUeoR_YgUwuPhrpb1aZVvlQaLPQQ0IIdvazHT-SdB42yN7U4wHzQ-FBx_eNuQYwTC3ww4yMmMZymRvDygFL1_sZxOhuJMQaQ/w400-h284/full+rough+2.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: black;">Again super rough, but she came up with the back cover stuff all with what I had given her previously. The next thing I knew she was sending me other images as she smoothed things out and moved things around and before I knew it, the Tracker220 cover was the amazing thing that now wraps around my words. And to this day I can't thank Jennifer enough for taking my fragmented ideas and turning it into a masterpiece.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">And now for some more fun. A chance to win some books. I'm giving a way a signed copy of Tracker220, plus signed copies of the Brave New Girls Anthologies volumes 2 & 3 that feature stories with girls who have a knack for STEM (including two of my short stories). Sound like a cool prize? Go fill out the rafflecopter to enter. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Then hop on over to my friend <a href="http://meredithtate.com/bows" target="_blank">Meredith Tate's</a> site to learn about her awesome books and find her secret word. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: black;"><br /><br /></span>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-42575422317778743732021-02-11T18:23:00.002-06:002021-02-11T18:23:08.616-06:00Tracker220 is going to the Moon!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja999XG9VO1i6QA0n3nSz_M7R4I5PNQUuTc6X10rY_5zdTgpXt_OTPVDxEo5QjgpIBL9JFqxQUBBNNMZw4fSjMKyqGJi9u1cbkexi3be1nAfjNuxRTs04MtuY5mAYt8hm1-v63FonQE1Q/s1468/Writers+on+the+Moon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1468" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja999XG9VO1i6QA0n3nSz_M7R4I5PNQUuTc6X10rY_5zdTgpXt_OTPVDxEo5QjgpIBL9JFqxQUBBNNMZw4fSjMKyqGJi9u1cbkexi3be1nAfjNuxRTs04MtuY5mAYt8hm1-v63FonQE1Q/w546-h361/Writers+on+the+Moon.png" width="546" /></a></div><br />You read that right. Tracker220 is going to the moon! My book was selected to be part of the Writers on the Moon project headed up by author and Rocket Scientist Susan Kaye Quinn. Tracker220 is part of a 125 other independent author's content that will be loaded onto a SD card and included in the payload of an Astrobotics lunar lander. The mission is set to launch in July 2021 and will become a time capsule that will remain on the moon to be found at a later date.<br /><br />And for fun, I also included my two short stories Arch Nemesis and Pyramid Scheme and associated cover art by Jennifer Stolzer from the Brave New Girls Anthologies. If you haven't checked those out, run don't walk. It's a series of multiple anthologies with shorts stories that feature female characters with a knack for STEM. AND all the proceeds from the book go to the Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund.<br /><br />As a rocket scientist, the Writers on the Moon Time Capsule is something right up my alley and combines my love of writing with my career in aerospace engineering. I'm so incredibly excited to be involved in this project.<br /><br />Be sure to keep an eye out for the upcoming <a href="https://www.writersonthemoon.com/our-team?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jamie_krakovers_newsletter&utm_term=2021-02-11" target="_blank">manifest</a> of all the included books.<br /><br />You can follow along with the journey at the <a href="https://www.writersonthemoon.com/" target="_blank">Writers on the Moon website</a>.<br /><br /><p></p>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-87842464890266818462020-10-10T02:00:00.034-05:002020-11-13T17:38:26.209-06:00Tracker220 First Chapter!<div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWwy6i8oXAOlyu6l63rCfJbE9Pwo1Bce8Z8eP6em7ef2g4gaHpfvrHhK_FuBvqbnpTVOnSCtqvFAv_hWY33X1kYec_p3UsN3wuWdc5b9LTJcB76t0FL-eB7irAu8r9GQMk5_kTxi7-bY/s2000/Tracker220+Available+now+banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="2000" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWwy6i8oXAOlyu6l63rCfJbE9Pwo1Bce8Z8eP6em7ef2g4gaHpfvrHhK_FuBvqbnpTVOnSCtqvFAv_hWY33X1kYec_p3UsN3wuWdc5b9LTJcB76t0FL-eB7irAu8r9GQMk5_kTxi7-bY/w589-h235/Tracker220+Available+now+banner.jpg" width="589" /></a></div><p></p> <p>Today is a special day. First, it's my five year wedding anniversary. And while that's an important day for me and my husband (yeah we've lasted five years, have a two year old, and have survived a pandemic without killing each other), I'm sure you came to this blog for other book related reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't hardly believe it, but TRACKER220 will be out in the world in 10 days! TEN! That's all and then the world will be reading my book baby. I'm so excited for the world to dive into this story.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even though it's my anniversary, I have a gift for all of you. Five years is typically the gift of wood, but you know what's made of trees and you know what also comes from trees? Paper. And what's printed on paper? Books... And... oh where was I going with this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yes, books. So here's your surprise. Tracker220 might not come out for ten more days but you can read the first chapter, in it's entirety right now. Check it out!</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UgnXvDBuAYZGLVmBXaQAkcnK9J7qbgvr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter One of Tracker220</a><br /></p><br />Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0Missouri, USA37.9642529 -91.83183349.6540190638211527 -126.9880834 66.274486736178844 -56.675583399999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-53632191516887063312020-09-12T20:59:00.002-05:002020-10-09T21:24:23.826-05:00Preorder Tracker220 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7rksPilHTjZ8i_RexPJXZAeTSn7wJcM4C5q6cW5XEoiDCT_Q4r1lABT0mV0NlY2ihGMTml-_kkB6tnI1vSf2zsQcSrED9b2rgPG1D1mhlRBpvxo90tQP1cHyDVUGdhHw2FOiPbhou4SY/s754/Tracker220+SWAG.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7rksPilHTjZ8i_RexPJXZAeTSn7wJcM4C5q6cW5XEoiDCT_Q4r1lABT0mV0NlY2ihGMTml-_kkB6tnI1vSf2zsQcSrED9b2rgPG1D1mhlRBpvxo90tQP1cHyDVUGdhHw2FOiPbhou4SY/w398-h400/Tracker220+SWAG.JPG" width="398" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tracker220 is available for preorder now!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">AND<br /> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you preorder or request that your local library carry Tracker220, you get a swag package simply by submitting proof of purchase/request to this <a href="https://forms.gle/85MBpf1myw55FHrY6" target="_blank">form</a>!<br /><br /><br />That's it. It's that simple. Buy the book, fill out the form, and you get free stuff including bookmarks, a signed bookplate and more!<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Preorder here:</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="5yl5"><span face=""><a href="https://mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/book/9781948661911" target="_blank">Main Street Books</a> - if you buy from Main Street Books I will sign your copy. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 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<a href="https://catplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Keep-it-Real.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="620" height="320" src="https://catplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Keep-it-Real.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wow…
Where to even begin. Today’s world is something most of us never imagined. It’s
amazing how overnight our lives look completely different. We don’t leave the
house except for a walk or a much needed trip to the grocery store or pharmacy.
Many of us are working from home, or have lost our jobs, are juggling multiple
responsibilities at the same time and we’re all struggling to adjust to the new
“normal”. I read and write dystopian fiction, but I never wanted to live in
one. But here we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
saw a really interesting <a href="https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief?fbclid=IwAR2k4RKAzjkSy6RYRYkhzxsIu_AcUN4ET0OpBQsrLMVaaqC-trZQZhGRHGQ">article</a>
that said the thing we are all feeling right now is grief. The loss of life as
we used to know it. The ability to come and go as we please, and the ability to
see our friends and family in person. All the things we took for granted up
until now. And each of us is struggling with something right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite
that, I still find it interesting that we always try to portray our best
selves, especially when outward facing to the world. Whether it's real or not. I came to this realization
when one my VP’s posted a thread asking folks to show off their virtual working
environments, and any tips and tricks they had. Most the pictures that popped
up were people with dedicated work spaces, clean desks, multiple monitors, and
nice office chairs. I laughed. I legit just lost it. And when I stopped laughing, I
constructed my post…</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If
I could get a picture of my "virtual office" it would be of me
sitting on the floor with my toddler rolling all over me, but that's impossible
to capture. My tips/tricks, get in work before he gets up, during nap time and
on the fly. I've done conference calls while changing diapers, and building
block towers so he can knock them over.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
have daily tagups with my team which helps keeps everyone engaged and aware of
what's going on. We also do daily brain teasers to get everyone thinking
outside the box and to have a little fun. There's also talk of a virtual happy
hour, after hours on our personal computers.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">#KeepItReal2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
you can see my reality is very different than what most folks posted. But an
interesting thing happened after I posted that. More people started sharing the
juggling that they are doing, talking about the kids making debuts on
conference calls, and their pets barking in the background and even those that
previously posted, added comments about the juggling that they are doing as well. It was a much needed
dose of reality </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
left me wondering why... We all know the world and everyone in it is a mess right now, so why are we still trying to prove to the world we aren’t? I understand the want to portray
our best selves, and it's important to post the wins no matter how small, but we should also be able to be vulnerable, show our
struggles, and be human. This kind of world event is extremely isolating, and
if we don’t talk about the good and the bad, we’re not doing ourselves any
favors. We have to be mindful of all our health that includes mental health,
especially mental health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
an effort to keep things real, and show all sides of how this event is
affecting us, what are your #KeepItReal2020 moments? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Share
in the comments below and if you’re feeling up to it share it online with the
hashtag #KeepItReal2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stay safe everyone and #KeepItReal2020 </span></div>
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-59967858250285991222020-03-09T08:00:00.000-05:002020-03-09T09:05:32.241-05:00Why I Decided to Indie Publish<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A lot of you have asked about how I
came to the decision to Indie publish. It’s been a long road to get here. The
idea for this manuscript started all the way back in 2012. You can read about
that journey and how it got to where it is today in <a href="https://jamiekrakover.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2018-02-21T07:00:00-06:00&max-results=10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">this post</span></a>. And if you
are subscribed to my newsletter you got a sneak peek into how the idea for
TRACKER220 came to be.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From the moment the idea for
TRACKER220 popped in my head, I knew it was special. The words poured out of
me. I couldn’t stop writing, and I saw edits and layers to add and change early
on. Things just clicked all around.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And although I hit many roadblocks
with edits and it was difficult to find a champion I finally did. A LOT of
champions. This manuscript more than any other I’ve written so far, gathered
hundreds of likes/retweets on pitch contests from agents, and more importantly
writers and readers. So many people expressed interest in this story. I had an
agent who believed in it enough to take me on as a client and even though she
left agenting, TRACKER220 is so much stronger because of the time spent
learning and working from her notes. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The market has seen some ups and
downs, and unfortunately TRACKER220 with its slight dystopian slant, hit the
market at the wrong time for YA Sci Fi. It’s why finding the right agent was a
struggle and why the few small presses I queried had wonderful things to say but
ultimately passed. YA Sci Fi has a hard time finding a place in the market.
Publishers struggle to market it and therefore are extremely picky about the YA
Sci Fi they do pick up.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But ultimately there are still
readers hungry for stories like TRACKER220. Stories with future technology,
abuse of power, nerdy techy boys, young artists, and teens fighting the good
fight. Because stories like TRACKER220 were not readily available to me as a
teen, I didn't read much. I struggled to find science fiction that was
accessible to my reading level. I hope that is not the case for today's
generation of teens.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And of course, there’s a desire for
more diverse YA fiction and specifically stories with Jewish main characters
written by Jewish authors. I’ve been hung up on the lack of Jewish main
characters in literature, specifically young adult fiction. There’s many
Holocaust stories out there, but not many stories with Jewish characters living
their everyday lives. In the YA and even MG spaces, we’re starting to see more
#ownvoices contemporary stories with Jewish main characters and some fantasy as
well, and it’s exciting. But there’s still very few YA Science Fiction stories
with Jewish characters. I think some of this is because YA sci fi is a
difficult sell right now, and sometimes in science fiction it can be difficult
to weave religion in without beating the reader over the head with it. I know I
struggled with this in my own story for a long time. And still struggle with
what having Jewish characters in projects I’m currently working on really
means.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For all of these reasons I knew
Tracker needed to be out in the world. Bottom line, I believe in this story. I
know it’s good. And I know people will enjoy it. And honestly, I don’t know if
I would have had the courage to step out and take on the publishing piece on my
own if it wasn’t for every single one of those supportive tweets, blog
comments, write on con feedback, DMs etc. It was the community that cemented
the decision for me. I wanted this story out in the world because I want people
to be able to read it. They deserve to read it.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you to everyone for following
me on this journey. I can’t wait for you all to hold this book in your hands
and experience it.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-52939599818510915322020-02-10T12:00:00.000-06:002020-02-10T12:00:00.688-06:00I Have NEWS!I have some really big news that I've been bursting to tell folks.<br />
<br />
YOU READY?<br />
<br />
Ok here's a BIG hint<br />
<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKWLLWrd2nh1ZJaEXpdcs9VfRrw7TFWAuxy7OKsJcSkGgL1BpNeecSGsQRmjLHwaJ5WMoq2-3wcyBSxthOBUBWbmyclNZUmChoqoQEkV8uxnKLj3UG4S4lBoKpzE204VBDV6abZ-FVEM/s1600/tracker.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="482" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKWLLWrd2nh1ZJaEXpdcs9VfRrw7TFWAuxy7OKsJcSkGgL1BpNeecSGsQRmjLHwaJ5WMoq2-3wcyBSxthOBUBWbmyclNZUmChoqoQEkV8uxnKLj3UG4S4lBoKpzE204VBDV6abZ-FVEM/s320/tracker.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>
That's right you guessed it! I'm publishing my first book TRACKER220!<br />
<br />
For
those who have been following my blog and/or following me on twitter,
you've likely seen my twitter pitches, query, and/or first page for
TRACKER220. <br />
<br />
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For those that aren't familiar with the project or might need a refresher, here's a short pitch:</div>
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<i><br />As
a Jewish artist, sixteen-year-old Kaya is at odds with the tracking
tech in her brain. Sure it provides access to infinite knowledge. But
knowledge isn't power if it keeps her from what she loves. And when her
chip glitches, it isn't the answer to her prayers.</i></div>
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I'm so incredibly excited to be on this journey and can't wait to share this book with everyone. It's been a long long process to get here (more on that in another post), but now that I'm on this road it feels right in so many ways. I'm so excited and grateful to have all of you with me on this road to publication.</div>
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Thank
you for all the support on this project, for every liked tweet and note
about how awesome you think this book sounds. For those that spent time reading and critiquing. And for everyone who cheered me on along the way. Without all those kind
words, I might never have found the courage to put this book out in the
world. </div>
<b>Stay tuned for more news about TRACKER220. It will release in Fall of 2020.</b><br />
<br />
And if you missed this announcement in my newsletter make sure you sign up <a href="https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7n3u8">here</a> to get all the upcoming news on TRACKER220. <b><br /></b>Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-83828411402402208802020-01-27T07:56:00.000-06:002020-01-27T07:56:01.277-06:00I’m Back!<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hey
everyone. I know it’s been a hot minute since I last blogged, but I’m back! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">First
let me update on all the crazy. Let’s go back two years to January 2018. Sorry
but that’s where the crazy started. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The year
was new and after applying and interviewing for a number of jobs, I received an
offer to be an engineering manager. My first manager role! I was so excited. I
accepted the offer went home and found out I was pregnant. After 10 months
of trying to get pregnant and slightly longer applying for manager jobs, both
happened all at once. I was excited and scared.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
as the hobbits say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
boy has it been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
February 2018, I signed with my literary agent. Now things were really rocking
and rolling. My day job was a huge learning curve in addition to being
responsible for 17 employees, I was planning for a new baby and to be a first
time mom, and working edits on a manuscript to put on submission to editors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was generating a plan for my new job, a plan for the new baby, and a plan for
going on sub with my manuscript. Things were busy, but I was in total learning
and prepare mode.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fast
forward to Summer 2018. I got an email from my agent giving me one more round
of edits then she wanted to run line edits before we went on sub. AWESOME. I’d
be on sub while I had my baby and life would be good. I’d be distracted with
adjusting to momhood and she could sell my book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was PERFECT…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
weeks later, I got an email from my agent saying she was taking another job in
publishing and she couldn’t take her clients with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
say that let the wind out of my sails was an understatement. I was two and a
half months from my due date, and I would no longer be on sub while pregnant. I
scrambled to get the edits done and requery my manuscript, but not much panned
out. And as my due date approached, I put all my energy into transitioning my
job to the temp manager taking over for me and completing final preparations for baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
son arrived bright and early (12:29am) on a Thursday in October. And let me say
new parenting is no joke. Sleep doesn’t happen, eating happens at odd hours (or over several hours in between diapers and laundry and holding a little one), and
showers are luxury. Anyone that tells you maternity leave is a vacation is
kidding themselves. I had grand plans to catch up on TV shows, read books, and
write a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well
not much of any of that happened and before I knew it I was back at work with
an almost 5 month old in daycare. That transition was rough (that will be a
whole other post). I didn’t have five seconds for myself let alone time to
write. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
writing didn’t happen. Pretty much at all. For about the last about year and half years. My
son is 15 months old now, so you do the math. And boy was the guilt about not
writing real. People told me I had a lot going on and it was okay to take a
break. I still felt awful about it. 1.5 years felt like too long. And yet I still struggled to get words on the page. I tried new words, editing old words, finishing existing projects... NOTHING WORKED. It was infuriating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fast
forward to today. It’s 2020, I finally feel like I have some control over my
life again, and I want to make something happen. I’m reading more (or trying
to), watching new shows for inspiration, chasing a toddler, and still managing
a team of employees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the spirit of making things happen, there will be news this year. I’m planning to
have LOTS and LOTS. And in order to keep up with it all, you should <a href="https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7n3u8">subscribe to my newsletter</a>. Go sign up over on the right hand side of my blog bar (or click the <a href="https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7n3u8">link</a>).
Because newsletter subscribers will be the first to know all the secret fun
things happening this year. You don’t want to miss out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I promise this place will have a lot more happening. Because things are
moving and shaking once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here’s
to an awesome 2020 everyone. Here’s to making things happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
I was little I wanted to be an astronaut. I was fascinated by space and
anything having to do with it. As I got older I realized that probably wasn’t
going to be a viable career path for me. First, because I have horrible eye
sight and second, because I hate running—seriously there better be something
chasing me otherwise I’m not running. But one thing I maintained through the
years was a distinct love for math and science. After many years thinking I
wanted to be a vet, I decided that wasn’t the right career path for me. But
when my mom suggested engineering I thought, sure, why not? The only problem was I had no
idea what engineers did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
a few programs and a course in freshman engineering, I realized I could marry
my love of math and science with my love of space and get a degree in aerospace
engineering (plus getting to tell people I’m a literal rocket scientist is
pretty cool). And it was in senior design class in college that I got one of
the hardest but most interesting problems in aerospace</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—</span>designing a spacecraft
that could take a crew from Earth to Mars and land on the planet. Since it’s a
three year trip, one of the requirements was that the ship had simulated
gravity.</span></div>
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Tether-satellite-NASA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="288" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Tether-satellite-NASA.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
discussed in my Misconceptions of Space article in <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-genre/science-fiction-fantasy/putting-the-science-in-fiction-expert-advice-for-writing-with-authenticity">PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION</a>, creating artificial gravity is not an easy task. In space, rotation is
required to generate enough inertial force to push an object against a surface
thus giving the object the appearance of experiencing gravity. There’s a
delicate balance when it comes to spinning spacecraft. It takes fuel and engines firing in
the right directions to create a spin in space. The other option is to get
another object to knock you into a spin, but that’s much harder to control. But
getting into the spin isn’t the most difficult part. It’s getting the spin at
the right speed and direction. If it’s too fast, people are forced against the
walls and can’t move, plus you risk making them sick, (think about how hard it
is to move on a spinning carnival ride like a teacup or sizzler). If you spin
too slow, then you don’t have enough force to keep people on the surface.
Then people experience some lesser amount of gravity than they are used to, and
would bounce like astronauts on the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
are a couple of factors that affect the gravity—one is mass, the other is
radius. The mass of the object in motion and how far it’s located from the
center of rotation can both affect the amount of gravity the object
experiences. Two objects of the same mass at different locations from the center rotation in the
same spacecraft will experience different amounts of gravity.</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2cyZ9UQHG6wIbBTU4nuMScRriTBE_a4aukGxbh08fpQw9ddYn" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="177" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2cyZ9UQHG6wIbBTU4nuMScRriTBE_a4aukGxbh08fpQw9ddYn" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
of this is a lot to consider before you even get to the spacecraft designs most
conducive for spinning. The two most popular options are a tether or a spinning
ring. Tethers are the lighter and less complex version. However, one could argue
they are less safe because they required a long object hanging out in space
that prone to impact or could be severed by space debris. Depending on the
design of the craft, a tether of 100ft or more might be required to generate
the right force to simulate gravity similar to what we experience on Earth.
Tethers also take a while to deploy to full length and run the risk of
tangling. On the flip side, a ring while a less prone to being hit by space debris and can't tangle,
requires a lot of material which can be expensive and heavy. Not only are the
supplies expensive, but the construction is as well. A ring style space craft
also requires a very sturdy center of rotation to support the spinning craft
and the occasional burst of a thruster to maintain the rate of spin (which
means burning fuel occasionally).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
in all simulating gravity in space is tricky business. This in turn presents
some interesting what if questions that should get any writer’s brain buzzing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you were an architect of long distance space mission, which way would you simulate
gravity? Would it compliment your crew’s mission in some way?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
once you have artificial gravity, what things could go wrong that would cause
the spacecraft to lose it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
your spacecraft is in the middle of nowhere in the galaxy and your crew is
bouncing off the walls (literally)… How do they restore gravity before everything
that isn’t tied down hurts someone? And if this goes on long enough how do they
prevent their muscles from atrophying?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
supplies do you need to fix the problem? Are they near or far? What comes next?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
go forth and write that story. I bet it’s an interesting one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">And don't forget to check out PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION debuting 10-16-18!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Science and technology have starring roles in a wide range of genres--science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and more. Unfortunately, many depictions of technical subjects in literature, film, and television are pure fiction. A basic understanding of biology, physics, engineering, and medicine will help you create more realistic stories that satisfy discerning readers. This book brings together scientists, physicians, engineers, and other experts to help you:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Understand the basic principles of science, technology, and medicine that are<br />frequently featured in fiction.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Avoid common pitfalls and misconceptions to ensure technical accuracy.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Today, I’m revealing the cover and story line-up for
BRAVE NEW GIRLS: TALES OF HEROINES WHO HACK, coming July 2018! This YA sci-fi
anthology (edited by sci-fi authors Paige Daniels and Mary Fan) features
stories about girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)… Girls
who hack not just computers, but whatever puzzles come their way, using their
smarts to save the day. It’s got sci-fi mysteries, cyberpunk, space adventures,
and more! Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the </span><a href="http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Society
of Women Engineers</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> scholarship
fund.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
without further ado, here’s the cover!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stories
in the anthology (in alphabetical order by title):</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Alchemist's Daughter <i>by Selenia Paz</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Altered
Avatar <i>by Mary Fan</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Attack
on Aegis <i>by Paige Daniels</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Becoming
a World Builder <i>by Valerie Hunter</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Data
Recovery <i>by Nicholas Jennings</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Discord
on Harmonia <i>by M.L.D. Curelas</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Experiment Called Life <i>by Halli Gomez</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">False
Messiahs <i>by Josh Pritchett</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Impossible
Odds <i>by A.A. Jankiewicz</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Cyberia, Avatar Controls You <i>by Jeremy Rodden</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the Shadow of Zyrcon <i>by Joanna Schnurman</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Inmate
C87 <i>by Kay Dominguez</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Life
Hack <i>by Aaron Rosenberg</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Login <i>by
Jennifer Lee Rossman</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Moon
Girl <i>by Jennifer Chow</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My
Other Tree House Is a Rocket Ship <i>by Russ Colchamiro</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Power of Five<i> by Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pyramid
Scheme <i>by Jamie Krakover</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sea-Stars
and Sand Dollars<i> by Lyssa Chiavari</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Second
Sun <i>by Jorge Rustrian</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ShockWired <i>by
Tash McAdam</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sword
& Shield <i>by Jelani Akin Parham</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Twisted
Brick <i>by M.J. Moores</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brave New Girls: Stories of Tales of Heroines Who Hack</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the third volume of the Brave New
Girls anthology series. The first two, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-Girls-Tales-Gadgets-ebook/dp/B00Z1YV1KI/"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls and Gadgets</span></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (2015) and </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-Girls-Stories-Science-ebook/dp/B071GGFNTY"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Brave New Girls: Stories of Girls Who Science and
Scheme</span></b></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2017) have so far raised thousands of
dollars for the Society of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. Find them on
Amazon.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige Daniels i</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">s the pen name of Tina Closser. By day she
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violin practice. After the kids go to bed, she rocks out with her headphones
turned to eleven and cranks out books. She is an uber science geek. If she
wasn't married to the most terrific guy in the world, she would be a groupie
for Adam Baldwin. Her books include Non-Compliance: The Sector, Non-Compliance:
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Fan</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is
a hopeless dreamer, whose mind insists on spinning tales of “what if.” As a
music major in college, she told those stories through compositions. Now, she
tells them through books—a habit she began as soon as she could pick up a
pencil. And what stories she has! Currently, she has three series in progress
and likes to think that she has even more in her bag. Her books include
Starswept, the Jane Colt trilogy, the Firedragon novellas, and the Fated Stars
novellas.</span></div>
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Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-46023656912870256852018-02-13T15:40:00.000-06:002018-02-13T15:40:10.374-06:00A Manuscript’s Journey<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since
I recently <a href="http://jamiekrakover.blogspot.com/2018/02/good-news-avalanche.html">signed
with my awesome agent Kira Watson</a>, I wanted to take a step back and break
down my process on the manuscript and talk about the amount of time and effort it
took to ultimately sign with my agent. Some of this is to reflect back, but
also to allow others to see how perseverance and hard work (a lot of it) can
pay off. Before I landed an agent, I really had no idea the amount of work that
went into a manuscript to get it to the point where someone would ultimately say
yes!</span>
<br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
order to walk you through the process, we have to go all the way back to 2012.
Yes I said 2012. I had just started querying my first completed manuscript
(second manuscript I’d written) and a shiny new idea grabbed hold of me. I was
driving in my car and a weird thought popped into my head. What if you never
got lost, ever? (Ironically I was not lost at the time) What if you could have
a map with you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days and year? And that idea
would become a story I dubbed TRACKER220. Of course from there the idea
exploded. If you could carry a tracking device with you at all time, what other
good and bad things would come from it?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
that sense of wonder and question I started writing. And for some reason I
couldn’t stop. The idea kept going and going and going until before I knew it I
had a finished draft. Then I was shuttling it off to critique partners. Everyone
that read it enjoyed the concept and had valuable input. I spent even more time
editing and incorporating their amazing feedback. This story felt special. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
yet when I set my first manuscript aside and put it in the metaphorical drawer
because I wasn’t gaining much traction with it, I had this nagging feeling that
TRACKER maybe wasn’t quite ready for the query trenches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
posted my query and pages on Write On Con and got additional feedback from
writers and Ninja agents. I continued to edit, but still felt like something
wasn’t 100% there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
this point it was the summer of 2014. I set my sites on Pitch Wars, a contest
that allowed you to be selected by a mentor to work with you to improve your
manuscript before an agent round and querying. It sounded like exactly what I
needed to get over the hump and get my polished manuscript not just query ready
but request ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
put in my submission for the four mentors I thought would be best for my manuscript
and then I waited. And eventually I got a full request from a mentor, then a
second full request from another mentor. Surely this was a good sign. But when
the mentor/mentee match list went up I wasn’t on it. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
WAS DEVASTATED.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
cried… a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
didn’t feel ready to query, but also didn’t know how to make my manuscript
better than it currently was. I felt stuck despite really believing in my
mansucript. But one of the mentors sent me an extremely encouraging feedback
email. I really enjoyed your manuscript. I think you are query ready, and I
wish I had some time to help you hone it even further. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Did
she say query ready?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
that I put on my big girl pants and sent out a few queries. I quickly got a
full request and was shocked at how fast it came. Maybe this mentor was right.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
some new found encouragement I also entered Baker’s Dozen. I wasn’t expecting
to get in. After all Pitch Wars hadn’t turned out how I had hoped. And as I
suspected, when the email notification went out, my inbox was empty. But then a
moment later it dinged. One of my CPs who has also entered was reaching out. Isn’t
TRACKER220 your manuscript? I scrolled the list and sure enough it was on there
but with a different author’s name by it. Had it been a mistake? I emailed
Authoress and sure enough it had been. I was in! So on that fateful day in
December when the manuscripts went up for auction, I landed two additional full
requests. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now I
really felt like I was getting somewhere. I continued forward getting involved
in twitter pitch events and getting a lot of positive remarks from writers
saying they loved the concept and couldn’t wait to read a story like mine. And
even got a lot of requests from agents and small pubs during the events. I also
entered Sun vs Snow and got in to that as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But as
the year moved into 2015, I got no requests during Sun vs Snow and the full
rejections from Baker’s Dozen rolled in too. I felt lost again, but that my
story really was something special and that I couldn’t give up on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
the middle of 2015 I was sitting on some agent feedback from the full
rejections. The agents didn’t connect enough (whatever that meant) and a couple
sited that they had hoped for more world building. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WORLD
BUILDING?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
did that even mean? That could be any number of things. I didn’t know where to
start. I struggled to wrap my brain around how to fix world building in the
manuscript, but knew that it was probably a real issue because more than one
agent had pointed it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
still I stewed and spun my wheels. (oh and I got married in October 2015 which
slowed me down a bit)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
I decided maybe it was time to pull back. I spent months revising the
manuscript and getting more feedback with respect to the world and character
development in the story. I completed a major edit that included adding scenes
to help further define the technology and world. I got one more round of
feedback to make sure I was on the right track before I dove back into the
query trenches again in summer/fall of 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
felt so much better about the manuscript this time. I continued to pitch during
twitter contests and got more requests as well as full requests from my queries.
I found new agents to query and kept pushing forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
I nudged an agent who had had my manuscript for over 3 months (for those
keeping track we are now in March of 2017). Finally she responded. She loved
the concept and many aspects of the story, but ultimately something had made
her pause. The world. The reader was told a lot about how the world worked
through the main characters eyes, but the reader wasn’t really shown. And
because of that, the agent decided to pass. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">BUT
she said if I would like to revise, she’d be happy to take another look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
I first read the email I was furious. All I saw was world building as a problem
yet again. Hadn’t I already fixed that? How could it still be broken? And
because of that anger, I’d completely missed how much the agent actually
enjoyed my manuscript, and the fact that she believed in it enough to give me
another shot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
I took some time to cool down and really consider what she had to say, I 100%
agreed with every piece of feedback she had given me. And even better the ideas
on how to fix it were already flowing. I sat on it for a day and talked it over
with some of my critique partners. I was pretty sure I was going to do the
revision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And when
I woke up the next morning EUREKA! Something I had always known about my main
character but had never been able to make matter to the story finally had its
place. I had always known my main character was Jewish, but I never mentioned
it before because it didn’t seem important to the story…until this agent’s
feedback. With the way she had explained the world building, if I incorporated
how the main character was Jewish, I could show her struggles with the
technology and her religion simultaneously. With the technology built into my
story it was in direct conflict with Jewish beliefs and observances of the
Sabbath. Now I had something.</span></div>
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emailed the agent and let her know I’d like to work a revision and would get
back to her when I finished. Then I went to work. I red lined the whole
manuscript. Looked for places to really show how the technology worked, pulled
in Jewish traditions, beliefs, and identity struggles and even rearranged a
series of chapters to fix the flow of the story and increase the pace in the
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in all, it took me a solid SIX MONTHS to complete the edits. And when I did, I
knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had a much stronger manuscript. But I
still wasn’t sure if the agent would like the direction I took the story. She’d
mentioned world building, not incorporating religion into the story. What if
she hated the story now?</span></div>
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queried some additional agents and waited, and waited…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
that fateful day when I finally had an offer in hand (January 2018 for those
still keeping track). It wasn’t the agent who requested the R&R but another
agent who offered. So I notified the agent who requested the R&R and she
was in the middle of reading and had really positive things to say as well. And
a few days later she too offered. And I signed with the second agent!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
none of this wouldn’t have been possible without the time I took to edit and
polish. The leaps of faith I took and the pauses. Taking the time to step back
re-evaluate and rework was invaluable. The continued effort to improve the
manuscript and my craft was exactly what I needed. Not taking no for an answer
and using it as fuel to light the fire that led to achieving my goal was the icing
on the cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
it was all said and done, from initial thought to offer, it was just shy of 5
years or writing, editing and querying off and on. And five years and one day
after I sent my first query for my other manuscript. All because I refused to
give up. Because I listened to that nagging voice in my head that this story
had to be told and it was good enough to get noticed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
still have work ahead of me on this manuscript, but all the hard work has
definitely paid off. And I now know what it takes to take something from idea
to magic.</span></div>
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-83348259110598548932018-02-05T22:31:00.000-06:002018-02-05T22:31:27.163-06:00Good News Avalanche!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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everyone. Sorry this space has been utterly and horribly neglected. To say the
last couple of years have been awful is a complete understatement. Sure there
were a few okay things here and there, but it was mostly just one major bout of
being dumped on after another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
real. The last couple of weeks have been utterly unbelievable. It has been an
utter good news avalanche! An avalanche of awesome if you will. I have to
wonder if the world is making up for lost time. But the rational side of me
keeps saying, it’s just a lot of hard work and perseverance all paying off at
once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
all started with a job offer for a first line manager position, something that
I’ve been working on for a while. And after things got a little too crazy I had decided I would put applying for management jobs on the back
burner. Right after I did that, an opportunity fell into my lap. I received the
offer on a Friday and took the weekend to think it over before accepting. But
during that weekend I was flooded with more good news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Saturday, January 27, 2018
I was at a robotics qualifier with the all-girls robotics team I mentor. They
were kicking ass and taking names. The judges were stopping by at regular
intervals to check in on them and ask questions (which is always a good sign)
and they were winning a lot of their matches. In the middle of all that chaos, I
got an email from an agent that had my full manuscript. I fully expected it to
say thanks but no thanks in some sort of agenty words. But the preview pane
looked a bit different than I expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Jamie,
I very much enjoyed reading TRACKER220 and would like to offer…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
that was it. I popped that sucker open and almost fainted from shock. The next
word….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">REPRESENTATION</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
all this time I thought I was going crazy. Was this some kind of dream? I
quickly replied to the agent that I needed to let other agents know who had my
material and asked for some time. The agent agreed and scheduled a call with
me. Then I sat myself on the sidelines and quickly fired off an email to the other
agent who had my full manuscript, an agent who had asked for a revise and
resubmit. I was still biting my nails wondering if she would like my revision
or not, but tried to put my thoughts aside and return my focus to the robotics
meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">About
an hour and a half later I got a reply in my inbox from agent #2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This
is so funny because I’ve been reading and loving the revisions you made.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
agent said she would finish up in a couple of days and let me know her
decision. Surely that was a good sign? But what if she hated the ending and
decided to turn me down? Either way I still had an offer on the table. But
quietly sat biting my nails anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
days later, on a Monday morning, I received a reply from Agent #2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Would
you be available for a call on Friday?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was
this what I thought it was? Probably, but what if it wasn’t? I had to wait
until Friday to find out for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
I waited and waited and waited until Friday finally came and I got to talk to Agentt #2 then talked to Agent #1 a few
hours later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Both
were kind and answered my bazillions of questions. And I’m glad I had a list
because I’m sure I would have forgotten something if I didn’t. Both let me
contact some of their clients to ask questions and all clients seemed extremely
happy with their agents and had nothing but good things to say. But after the
calls and the emails, I was pretty sure I knew who I wanted to pick. Despite that I
definitely took some time to think it over and weigh my options. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
had met Agent #1 at a conference and she clearly had a passion for my story.
Her ears had perked up when I mentioned the tagline which is why I originally
queried her. She also had a great submission strategy and we both have a lot in
common and got along great on the phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Agent
#2 on the other hand, I had come across after seeing an interview she had done
for MSWL and had mentioned one of her favorite books. I had messaged her on
Twitter and had a brief conversation about the interview. I also referenced
that conversation in my initial query to her. But months after the initial full request, she came back
saying she loved the story but couldn’t offer rep and gave some very detailed
feedback as to why. She also said if I wanted to do a revision, she’d be happy
to take another look. I sat on the information for a while then decided I
agreed with her feedback and that I wanted to try a revision. Her notes pushed
me as a writer in a way I never thought possible. And when I talked to her on
the phone, she had glowing things to say about the story and additional ideas
for my manuscript that would continue to make it stronger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
ultimately I decided to go with Agent #2, Kira Watson!!!! And I’m so excited to
have joined #TeamKira and I’m looking forward to continuing to work with her
and seeing where her advice and guidance takes me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
for the numbers folks here’s my querying history… note the dates, persistence
does pay off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Manuscript
#1 did not finish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Manuscript
#2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First
query sent 1/26/2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">51
queries sent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">47
query rejections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4
partial requests that turned into rejections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7%
request rate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Manuscript
#3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First
query sent 11/6/2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">96
queries sent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">81
query rejections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9
partials requested (6 from contests/twitter pitches)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
partial upgraded to a full</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8
rejected partials</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9
additional full requests (2 from contests)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7
full rejections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
revise and resubmit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2
offers of representation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
first offer came 5 years and 1 day after the initial query was sent in 2013)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">18%
request rate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
AGENT SIGNED</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
those doing quick math, that’s right around 150 rejections. And I queried my second
manuscript off and on for just over 3 years. I pulled back several times,
rethought things, and dove back in (I’ll talk more about this in another blog
post coming soon). It’s also important to note, that my perfect agent match
wasn’t an agent when I started querying. So for those still waiting on your
agent match, keep in mind, your agent may not be there now, but may be there one
day soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
were definite times I thought this was never going to happen for me. And so
many times I almost outright quit. (just ask my CPs) But I’m so glad I didn’t
because I finally FINALLY HAVE AN AGENT!!!</span></div>
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-27469968155030141122017-09-24T10:23:00.002-05:002017-09-24T10:25:58.023-05:00Why I Fight For Women in STEM<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_fm">
This world has a problem. Well many in fact, but one of the ones I'm most equipped to deal with is the war against women in STEM. It's a fight I've been in my whole life but only recently really started finding my voice for. And when I see women in STEM facing adversity it really grinds my gears. I've been there. It's a horrible place to be. It makes you want to quit. It's really REALLY hard to find your voice and the best way to speak up. To even know it's okay to say something without fear of repercussion.<br />
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And I have to say an interesting thing happened when I started speaking up. Rather than people telling me to shut up as I suspected might happen, people started thanking me. Thanking me for saying something and for saying it eloquently. And the weirdest part of all, they told me to keep speaking up. So I have.<br />
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And when I woke up this morning to a tweet from one of the seniors on the robotics team I mentor, I couldn't stay silent.<br />
She tweeted this article: <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F09%2F23%2Ftechnology%2Fsilicon-valley-men-backlash-gender-scandals.html&h=ATNla786BrTVGn4tl6rSSC2wefk_JbfpfXU17bXBfg0idISOLSASRWgt01oXQ5CYIE1lpRGPW5FORmvYaldMxT_j8cZAfuOUgccSf9hXAX846_sdg2Nz04JUI2rZL-K1VNsXsq-xVq_MvMi43bBvsNlNmoxfqNdXp0BRI3TQVTSmTgKBPCTlbKjKHiIjCAhjvnBiWynSFv5jjZF88pn32rI2ynyxlXxmnsQcLmdvjg3-vHxA76sZs8dRFKMObh-RCgEVyOTwPNs3gr-u8bqB3GXN-A3_ayw" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/technology/silicon-valley-men-backlash-gender-scandals.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/…/silicon-valley-men-backlash-gende…</a><br />
with the caption "Welp wish me luck"<br />
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It pains me that young women excited about engineering not only have to
see this stuff, but also STILL have to think about how to handle
situations like this before they even enter college, let alone the
workplace. And it's horrible that women today still have to deal with
this kind of Bullshit.Yep I said BULLSHIT. Because that's exactly what it is.<br />
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This young lady is one of the brightest
programmers I have ever met, and programming was not even on her radar
until she joined the robotics team 3 years ago. She is almost completely
self taught and has come so far. Now she is looking at it as a major
and a career. To see this excitement from a confident young woman waiver
in the slightest bit breaks my heart.<br />
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THIS is why I mentor. This
is why I wont be silent. And this is why I keep fighting. Because
people STILL don't realize the opposition women in STEM face. It
shouldn't be like this. And I fight so that one day it won't be. In the
meantime, I'm glad I have other strong women I can band together with,
and I'm glad I can inspire the next generation of strong women in STEM.
If you have the opportunity to inspire young women in STEM, support them
and fight for them. Help them find a voice where they don't have one.<br />
<br />
This is why I fight for women in STEM, not just because I am one, but for the future. We need women in STEM. We need diverse voices. It's how we will ultimately learn, grow, and be more innovative as a society. Every person has a unique background. Embrace those differences around you and rise to the top as a group. One persons differences does not prevent you from reaching your goals.<br />
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I repeat: ONE PERSON'S DIFFERENCES DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM REACHING YOUR GOALS.<br />
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Work together and achieve those goals together. <br />
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And if you're a women in STEM feeling lost, without a voice, or at their wits end, know that I'm here for you. Know that's I've been there. And know that we can fight it and make it better. In the meantime, let's talk about it, let's support each other, and let's win this fight.</div>
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-30721145152907068142017-02-21T06:30:00.000-06:002017-02-21T06:30:00.163-06:00NEWS and Awesome ThingsHey everyone... I know it's been a hot minute since I've last blogged. Sorry about that. The end of 2015 and all of 2016 was quite the busy year. Lots of life changes and family happenings. And in addition to all of that, I've been hard at work planning a regional conference for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) which is in 3 days! EEK!<br />
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And oddly enough my awesome news has something to do with SWE. I love happy coincidences!<br />
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All right I'll stop stalling. The big news...<br />
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My sci fi short story Arch Nemesis about a girl trying to thwart her arch nemesis who has a secret lab underneath the St. Louis Arch is going to be PUBLISHED! My story will be included with a whole bunch of awesome other stories in an anthology titled BRAVE NEW GIRLS: Stories of Girls who Science and Scheme which features young women with a knack for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math)--<span style="font-family: cambria;">Girls
who engineer, tinker, hack, and more, using their smarts to save the day. It’s
got space operas, sci-fi mysteries, steampunk, cyberpunk, all kinds of punk!</span><br />
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Sounds pretty cool right?<br />
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Even better...<br />
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OH YES, THERE'S MORE!<br />
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Proceeds from the anthology will go towards to the <a href="http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/">Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund</a>! See I told you it had something to do with SWE.<br />
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I'm so excited to be part of something that will give back to an organization that has helped me so much in my engineering career.<br />
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AND...<br />
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Yes, there's even more.<br />
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I know I can't believe all this awesome all at once.<br />
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I've got the cover reveal for BRAVE NEW GIRLS right here on my blog!<br />
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So check out the amazing cover to BRAVE NEW GIRLS: Stories of Girls who Science and Scheme.<br />
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Check out the awesome lineup for the anthology!<br />
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<b>Stories in the anthology (in
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The 17th Quadrennial Intergalactic Neo-Cultural
Expo and Science Fair<span class="m_442636705371164619gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i>by
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth</i><span></span></div>
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Be sure to pick up your copy in August 2017! It's going to be an incredible anthology!Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-34866385772708549152016-08-25T06:54:00.000-05:002016-08-25T06:55:43.222-05:00Dealing with Rejection<div>
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I've been rejected... A
LOT. Nearly 150 times. And that's just querying. I've entered contests I
haven't gotten into. I've gotten into contests and not gotten requests.
I've gotten requests from contests that ultimately turned into
rejections. And that's just my writing. That doesn't count the jobs I've
been rejected for, auditions I've failed to get, leadership groups I
haven't gotten into, awards I've been nominated for and didn't get and
on and on. Rejections happens everywhere in life. It hurts. It shouldn't
be personal, but it sure as shit feels like it sometimes.</div>
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I've
watched people I've come up through the writing ranks with get agents,
book deals, and see their books get published. I've cheered for them and
helped them. I've watched people that started after me succeed. Get
agents, get book deals, get published. I've cheered for them as well. I
love watching people succeed. But that still doesn't change the fact
that rejection hurts. A LOT.</div>
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I've watched people
explain their path to success. Y person entered x contest 3 times and
finally got in. (I did too and didn't). So and so got his or her agent
on their third manuscript (I'm on my fourth, third that I'm looking at
querying). That person got a book deal without an agent (I have no book
deals.) and on and on. It's so hard to keep going when you feel like
you're behind people. And it's even harder to not compare yourself to
others.</div>
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I've been thanked in so many books I've
lost count. I appreciate the recognition and I'm so glad I was able to
help so many others succeed. But that doesn't change the fact that I
have a goal. A goal to see my name on the cover of a book, to walk into a
book store and see my book on the shelf, to sign books for excited
readers, to get fan mail, and one day maybe some fan art for the
characters and worlds I've created.</div>
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But every time my email
goes off my heart sinks. Is this another rejection? Or maybe it's just
email. And the silence hurts more. Did they even get my email? Are they
ignoring me? Are they ever going to respond? Who even knows anymore. It
all hurts so much sometimes.</div>
As a look back on where I
started though, that's where thing start to make a little sense. I made
mistakes. LOTS OF THEM. I started my first book with someone waking up
and staring at themselves in the mirror and describing themselves. I
didn't even finish that book.<br />
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Then euphoria, I finished a book. I
proved to myself I could do it. I researched querying and then the
rejections started flowing in. No requests. I entered contests and
didn't get in I researched some more. I entered more contests got into a
couple. No requests. How embarrassing... I got more feedback and did
more research and BAM some partial requests. I never made it to fulls.</div>
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Another
idea, another manuscript. I proved to myself I could complete more than
one. I entered contests I got interest, but didn't get in. Then I got
into a contest and actually got requests... for fulls. And I queried and
got more requests for partials and fulls. And then the rejections
started rolling in. I didn't get much feedback and felt lost. How do I
fix this? Is it subjective? Is there something else wrong? I got more
feedback from CPS. I rewrote, I queried some more. Got some more
requests that also ultimately turned into rejections. Still no usable
feedback. I pushed the MS aside.</div>
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I wrote another
manuscript. Hey I'm getting pretty good at this. I got some feedback. I
edited. I entered a contest and wasn't picked. More hurt and pain and
wondering what I'm doing wrong. The answer might be nothing. But my gut
tells me there's something I'm missing.</div>
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So now what? More
research? More feedback? Into the query trenches for ultimately more
rejections? I have to go with my gut and dive in for more feedback. But
what's even the point? I haven't achieved my goal, and I've watched so
many others pass me up.</div>
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The journey. I've grown so much as a
writer and if I'm being completely honest, writing has helped me grow
as a person too. In each step I've learned something. I've gotten a
little further down the road. I've met more amazing people. Will my next
manuscript be the one? Who even knows? But I have a choice, leave the
path forever and never reach my goals, or continue down it and see where
it takes me. </div>
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I'm the curious type so I'm going to
continue down the path. And one day, maybe, I might see my dreams come
true. I might get to hold that book with my name on the cover. And to me
that image makes it all worth it.</div>
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Until then, I keep wandering along the path. Will you join me?<br />
Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-25021964787881292702016-07-01T12:58:00.001-05:002016-07-11T20:39:16.016-05:00Pitchwars Bio - 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi all you happy Pitchwars folks! I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself.<br />
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I'm Jamie...<br />
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I'm a giant nerd!<br />
Exhibit A:<br />
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Exhibit B:<br />
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Exhibit C:<br />
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Exhibit D:<br />
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In real life...<br />
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I love space!<br />
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and love superheros!<br />
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And sci fi...<br />
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to name just a few... (otherwise we might be here all day!)<br />
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In my free time (what free time?) I dance...<br />
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And cosplay... :D<br />
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I also love to read YA and MG!<br />
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And of course I'm a writer! I write MG and YA scifi and fantasy. <br />
(don't act so surprised by the genres :-P)<br />
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And for Pitchwars I'll be subbing a MG fantasy about a girl... who can change into...<br />
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BUT... she doesn't want anything to do with being a dragon...<br />
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So I'll leave you there... for now...<br />
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But I will say, with each manuscript I've completed and queried, I've learned more and more about the process and improved each step of the way. I've gotten full requests that ultimately turned into no's and I just didn't quite connect enough's, so I really want to work with someone to make sure my manuscript is at that next level and has that "it" factor. I'm ready and willing to make my manuscript shine no matter what it takes.<br />
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All in all, I'm really looking forward to getting to know the Pitchwars mentors and participants, maybe swapping some chapters, hopefully really improving my manuscript, geeking out over books, and just saying hi. So hit me up on <a href="https://twitter.com/Rockets2Writing">twitter</a> and make sure you...<br />
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and that's me... in my tiny car...<br />
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<br />Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-5510221408274940542016-04-03T19:55:00.000-05:002016-08-03T17:01:27.720-05:00Strong Female CharactersFirst, I know I haven't blogged in forever. No I haven't forgotten, but to say life got a tad bit busy is the understatement of the century. That said, I wanted to take a brief moment to talk about something extremely impactful that happened to me this weekend at comic con. Yes, I said comic con.<br />
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I've always believed strong female characters and their representation are super important. I'm an aerospace engineer. A women in a male dominated field. I spend a lot of my time trying to defend women in STEM fields, and serve as a role model for future females pursuing STEM fields. It's not an easy task. It seems to be never ending.<br />
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But starting at comic con this weekend, I witnessed some interesting things with respect to strong female characters. It started with a lovely discussion about strong female characters at a leading ladies panel Friday night at comic con. And no one in the room denied that strong female characters are not only critical, but they are necessary. We named strong female characters, and the qualities that made them so. It seemed so obvious to me then. But I don't think I had a full understanding of how essential strong female characters are until I showed up to comic con in my Rey cosplay and started walking around in the crowds.<br />
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First, I must note, that Rey was by far one of the most popular costumes at comic con. And while that isn't overly shocking, it's Star Wars, it's a fairly easy costume, and she's awesome, keep in mind only a handful of those Rey cosplays were adults. That's right, most of the 25 or so Rey's I saw, were young girls.<br />
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Every time I passed one, they smiled so hugely at me, and as I waved, they waved back. Without a doubt, it's an amazing thing to see that many young girls identifying with a character enough to want to portray her.<br />
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But of bigger note was the number of girls, who ran up to me and asked to take a picture. Including these two, who without any inhibition ran up and hugged me then told me how Rey was their favorite character.<br />
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And I see some of you rolling your eyes through your computer screen right now, but it wasn't just girls who responded to Rey. Let's talk about this little Kylo Ren, who I only had to hold out my light saber before he lunged at me ready for a fight. He didn't care that I was bigger than him, that I was girl or about the standard female stereotypes we often face when it comes to female heroes. The only thing that mattered was he knew Kylo Ren and Rey were supposed to fight and I held out a lightsaber. So he went for it and loved every minute of it!<br />
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There was also this boy who really wanted to take a picture with two strong female leads, but was so afraid to ask. So I asked him if he wanted a photo and he nodded shyly. You can't beat that grin on his face. He clearly loved being able to pose with two awesome female characters.<br />
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And I wont even go into the number of adults who screamed REY at me all weekend or smiled widely as I walked by. People love her and it's for so so many reasons. She's strong, she's a fighter, she's caring, she's a pilot, she's a budding jedi, she's so many wonderful and amazing things. She feels real. She feels human.<br />
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So after all of this, the excited young boys and girls, and enthusiastic adults, why are we still having to defend strong female characters? Why are we having to fight to get our female lead movies?<br />
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There's clearly a love for these kinds of characters. There's an audience there. We need to keep giving these examples to children. Girls need these role models. They need strong women to look up to. They need to know women can do anything. Boys need these role models. They need to see strong women are amazing. That they aren't a threat to them.<br />
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The more we see them, the more normal they are in the world. Their representation is important.<br />
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SCREAM THEIR PRESENCE FROM THE ROOFTOPS!<br />
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After this weekend, I know how much impact one strong female character can have. Let's flood the world with them in any way possible. Recognize them, write them, draw them, defend them, whatever it takes. Let's make a difference.<br />
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Who are your favorite strong female characters and why? And who is missing from the big screen? Let's bring these awesome characters to the surface.<br />
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And if you have strong female REAL LIFE role models, I want to hear about them too. Sound off in the comments. :)<br />
<br />Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-32883078634211312892015-10-18T14:36:00.000-05:002015-10-18T14:36:08.639-05:00The REAL Adventures of a Newlywed - Day 6<div dir="ltr">
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6am ... I'm awake... ish... at least it's Friday... Sleeping in is only a day away!</div>
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I make breakfast and grab the milk from the fridge cursing
the giant box of cake. I'm amazed I still haven't knocked something all
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Watching the news... winter is coming.... ugh... cold weather *GROAN*</div>
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The dog is trying my patience this morning. She's into everything... Maybe she knows it's almost the weekend too.</div>
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I head into the bedroom to finish getting ready. Andrew is
just getting out of bed. How are we both moving so slow this morning? I
settle for a polo and jeans cause it's Friday. Then slip on my Star Labs
hoodie cause it's comfy and head out to work.</div>
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7:30am I log into my computer and wish a coworker happy
birthday by "singing" to him via Lync messenger... Yeah that's the
closest thing you'll ever hear from me in terms of singing *tone deaf*
He tells me to wait for his email... I'm curious and frightened all at
once, but I start digging into my own emails.</div>
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8am Andrew asks me where the left over lightsaber
keychains are. I told him I hid them from him. I'm apparently a dead
woman now MUAHAHAHA. It's funny how possessive we are over them when
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8:30am After saying happy birthday to said coworker in
person and snagging a doughnut that I probably don't need. I take my
laptop into the conference room to run our tagup meeting. </div>
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9am Ask coworker about the lightsaber keychain that I gave
him. It was apparently a huge hit with his daughters and their robotics
team. And then he went to happy hour and the bartender offered to buy
him a drink in exchange for the keychain. I need to carry extras of
those everywhere! FOR REAL! Who knew lightsaber keychains could be used
as currency?</div>
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9:30am Safety training. Hot dog! Safety first friends. Safety first.</div>
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12pm went to lunch with coworkers, again joked about the
impending name change. Top choices are Pi, or the engineer formally
known as Jamie Krakover</div>
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1pm I take a survey, this is the first time i get to check
the box "Lives with spouse" Had to think about it for a second before I
answered, but that is in fact the correct answer.</div>
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I start to dig into life changes on my work benefits...
holy moly there's a lot more here than I expected... So many questions.
On the plus side, my tax form now says I'm married! SCORE!</div>
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4:30pm I head to petsmart to pick up dog food. I havent had
time to get any until now. Good thing we still had one container. After
thag it's to the grocery store for a few needed items. We dont need
tons and we're leaving town in a week.</div>
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5:30pm I stand in front of the TV for workout number two of
the week. I start dying about five minutes in but i make it through the
whole thing.</div>
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7:15pm We arrive at my mom's house to get presents that
were sent there and drop off some extra kippot from the ceremony. Those
will float around our family for years and come out during holidays.</div>
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7:30pm We head to my coworkers house for birthday
celebration. We get lots of congrats and talk sbout the wedding. I give
tips to one coworker who is getting married next month.</div>
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There's a lot of questions about how newlywed life is. My standard response comes all 6 days of it have been awesome.</div>
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We laugh and joke about a lot of stuff. When we get ready
to leave there's a joke about us going home so we can still enjoy being
newly married. Neither of us deny it.<br />Jamie Krakoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16808802721340647047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140580904828834702.post-50139925783717993542015-10-16T08:01:00.001-05:002015-10-16T08:02:58.047-05:00The REAL Adventures of a Newlywed - Day 5<div>
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5:30am The alarm goes
off. I'm tired but it's the usual everyday tired not the zombie like
exhaustion that has been seeping through my bones the last week. I check
Twitter then roll over and snooze for a bit.</div>
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6am I
basically ignore my second alarm but get up when Andrew's alarm goes
off. My body hurts. My shoulders, abs and thighs are all sore from my
workout. I'm not all that surprised. I stumble around in pain trying to
get ready. Andrew asks what time it is then goes back to bed. The dog
stays with him. TRAITOR.</div>
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I make breakfast. As soon as I pour the cereal the dog emerges and wants to go out. I see how it is...</div>
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After
taking the dog out, I put the cookies in the car so I remember to bring
them today. Then I dig the milk out of the fridge. Maneuvering in there
is like a slide puzzle with all that left over cake. But it's cake so
I'm not complaining...</div>
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I plop in front of
the TV to eat and surf the web mindlessly for a bit. When I get up to
get ready Andrew is in the shower. CUE BATHROOM INVASION! I'm in an out
in less than five minutes and on my way to work.</div>
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7:20ish
am Cookies are on my desk! Score one for the day. I get logged into my
computer and actually remember my password this morning. Run into a
coworker I haven't seen in years who apparently knows one of my other
coworkers. I'm always amazed at how small this enormous world feels
sometimes... And after a quick conversation it's off to emails!</div>
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Looks like my coworker brought in cookies too. We are now drowning in them... There are worse problems to have.</div>
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9am
Get an email from my sister about wedding planning. The fun begins :) I
can't wait to help her plan her big day. Hopefully we are skilled
experts at this point. She luckily gets to learn from all our missteps.</div>
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9:30am
a quick tagup with the SWE planning team. They want to know about the
wedding then we launch into business. I think we talked longer about the
wedding than business. oh well.</div>
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Andrew messages me to
tell me his brain is mush and he's not sure why... Welcome to the
club... it's cause BIG EMOTIONAL RELEASE!</div>
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And I get a
message about some confusing deadlines... one calendar says tomorrow the
other says next Friday. It's definitely next Friday. I blame wedding
brain cause that's totally a thing! (If not it is now!)</div>
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It's
noon and some coworkers want to go to lunch. How is the day more than
half over already? We talk about past work experiences, then talk about
how long we've been with the company. One of my coworkers jokes I'm as
old as the development of the digits in pi. I laugh and promise to steal
it to use on someone else :-P Then it's back to my desk for more work!
Never a dull moment!</div>
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4pm I stop at the jewelry store
to get my engagement ring and wedding band soldered together. They say
it'll take 45 minutes. I run home, let the dog out, grab my computer and
my wedding dress.</div>
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I drop my dress off to be cleaned
and preserved. It costs an arm and a leg and I wont get it back for at least
two and a half weeks, but it should be worth it. It's the last large sum
of wedding I hope to spend outside of the honeymoon, which will again be
TOTALLY worth it. The wedding is over and yet there are still wedding
type things to take care of. It never ends!</div>
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5:15pm I
trot into Kaldi's and sit down at my weekly write in. I haven't been here
in two weeks and probably haven't written anything constructive in over
a month. I'm excited to put some words on the page!</div>
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My
mom calls. We're still somehow talking about the wedding. Mostly
presents, but she never got a call from the florist about the fact that
they didn't do the flowers right. While very pretty, they weren't what we
asked for. She was promised a call from the owner and never got one.
Where is customer service these days???</div>
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6:30pm My gluteus maximus hurts... Curse that workout yesterday....</div>
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6:45pm I'm freezing... I want my Star Labs hoodie **cries** Why did I leave that at home? It's practically glued to me most days. *favorite hoodie*</div>
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6:55pm I finally open my word document to start writing... headphones in... **dives into the dragon's lair**</div>
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7pm **light saber sounds** cue text messages from my mom... More wedding presents have arrived at her house.</div>
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7:05 MUST WRITE ALL THE WORDS!!!</div>
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1
hour and 540 words later, I call it quits. I've done better in the
past, but I've also done much worse. It'll take some time to get back
into a rhythm. It will come. I hope.</div>
<div>
<br />
9pm I get home and I'm on
the hunt for a dress to wear to my friend's wedding on Saturday. Because let's face it, I've had not time until now to really figure that out. The
first dress is one I bought my freshman year of college. I almost fit in
it again. I'm shocked! But it's just a tad tight and I'm not going to be uncomfortable all night. The second dress I put on is the winner!
It fits better than when I bought it! SCORE! And Andrew likes the dress,
like really likes it. DOUBLE SCORE! And I get to wear my super cute but super high heels. My feet will be dying by the end of the night. Oh well the price I pay for cute.</div>
<div>
<br />
I watch an
episode of Ellen then head off to bed. Andrew is already there playing
with his new computer. (No that's not a euphemism) I lay down next to him but Andrew gets
a work call and I pass out. I have no idea what time he actually goes
to sleep. Such is life...</div>
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015<br />
</div>
<div>
5:30 comes way WAY
too soon. Even though I slept like a rock, I'm still exhausted. Why did I
ever think this was a good time to get up for work?</div>
<div>
<br />
6am
the alarm goes off again. I seriously contemplate a sick day, but I've
missed enough work. Five minutes later Andrew's alarm goes off and I
want to chuck it out the window! I finally crawl out of bed and stumble
around like a drunken idiot to try and get ready for the day. Andrew
mumbles at me to close the bathroom door because the light is
bothering him. I'd love to still be in bed too buddy!</div>
<div>
I
take the dog out... Why is it so cold? ugh I hate winter and it's not
even winter yet. I surf the web in a daze and watch the news while I eat
breakfast. I'm so slow the dog nearly enjoys my breakfast for me... At
least one of us is on our game.</div>
<div>
<br />
7:30am I slink into my
desk and realize I left the cookies I was going to bring into work on
the counter. Oh well I guess I'll bring them tomorrow. I log into my
computer and I get my password right on the second try. I'm almost awake
I swear!</div>
<div>
<br />
Email boots up, 122 emails, 17
notifications, and 2 voicemails... could be worse, but it'll take me
probably half a day to dig out of this pile. Then another bit of time to
figure out what the heck I was working on a week ago...</div>
<div>
<br />
I
catch up with co-workers. They ask how things went and comment on how
tired I look. Guess I'm not hiding that as well as I thought. Note to
self, go to bed at 8:30pm tonight (like that will happen)</div>
<div>
<br />
8:30am
Time for our team tagup. I've made it through about 20 emails but now I
have to go run the meeting. So glad to be back :-P The team asks to see
some wedding photos then we launch into real work. At the end of the
meeting, we joke about my upcoming name change and my manager tells the
team to email me with suggestions... Looks like Junior High might not be
the last time I get really horrible nicknames ;)</div>
<div>
<br />
9:30am
A quick tagup with my mentor talking about my wedding and his son's
that is next weekend. Then I stop by to say hi to my old group. Then
it's back to my desk to continue to dig out of my email pile.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
10:30am
I'm starving. Is it time for lunch yet? I scarf down the half of a
banana that isn't bruised but I'm still hungry... Contemplates eating
stupid early... Also I'm only up to midday Friday on emails... still
chugging along...</div>
<div>
<br />
I'm down to 69 unread emails... **snickers** I'm such a child. Carries on...</div>
<div>
I
trek to the building next door to use the restroom since ours are
closed for construction while they install new air conditioning units.
It looks/sounds like Dexter's clean room over there... so much plastic
and sawing noises.</div>
<div>
<br />
Andrew messages me about computer toys. I send him "OK" as a response but don't have time to read the link.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
And oh look it's after 11am so I can acceptably eat lunch now! YAY! **keeps reading emails**</div>
<div>
**DEATH BY EMAIL**</div>
<div>
<br />
11:30am I jump on a virtual call with only 30 emails left to go. I think I can I think I can...</div>
<div>
And
back to emails. The first one involves a database glitch. One of the
images we uploaded has been replaced by the picture of a jellyfish and
the inquiry is about whether or not I did that intentionally. While I'd
love to take credit for that, I unfortunately can't. And even though
jellyfish might be water dynamic, they certainly don't belong on
aircraft. Neither do snakes for that matter... never a dull moment.</div>
<div>
<br />
I
looked away for a short bit and I'm back up to 33 emails... They're
multiplying like tribbles or gremlins who got wet and ate after
midnight... UGH.</div>
<div>
<br />
HOLY MOLY I'm actually up to Wednesday in my inbox... almost there...</div>
<div>
<br />
2pm
I finally cleaned out my inbox, and by clean I mean deleted everything I
could address quickly. There's still a handful of stuff in there I need
to deal with but it's time for another meeting...</div>
<div>
<br />
3pm
DEAR GOD IS IT TIME TO GO HOME YET? And the construction guys are
bowling with lord knows what behind that plastic resembling Dexter's
clean room. **cries**</div>
<div>
<br />
5pm I'm home and ready to return
to my workout routine... Why in the world did I think it was a good
idea to start on the highest level after a week of not
exercising...CURSE YOU T-25 GAMMA! sooooo sore</div>
<div>
<br />
I write two thank you notes... for the gift that arrived today... hey small victories.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Andrew
and I eat dinner while watching Ellen. Justin Theroux is on and
conveniently talking about being a newlywed. He says wife is such a fun
word. I prod Andrew about it and he mumbles something under his breath.
Ahhh married life ;)</div>
<div>
<br />
Browsing through facebook, I see
pictures of other friends' weddings that were on the same day as ours.
Look they're cutting the cake and there's a plate and fork... how
cute... why didn't we have a fork? I think I still have cake on my face 4
days later!</div>
<div>
<br />
It's Andrew's turn for thank you note
writing. He says he's going to write three... cause he always has to one
up me ;) So I give him crap about the fact that I'm almost done with
all of mine. Fair is fair ;) I at least address the envelops for him.</div>
<div>
<br />
8:30pm I make fun of Scream Queens and tell Andrew that "I love that he's a man" He replies "I'm sure you do baby." *wink wink*</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
9pm
time for cake... cause cake... you can never have to much. Andrew says
I'm going to give him another cavity but doesn't argue too much ;) Then
he retreats downstairs having only written two thank you notes. Hey it's
something. (and for the record, WE TIED) :-P</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Survivor ends and I slink off to bed... Alone. Andrew is still downstairs... not sure how he can stay up so late... I'm jealous.</div>
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
5am and the dog wants out. I slink out of bed take her out and head back to sleep. Andrew doesn't wake up. <br />
<br />
6:30am
Andrew's alarm goes off. He's headed back to work today, but I roll over
and try to pass back out. My phone starts going off at 7am. Text
messages, Facebook messages, emails... I should really mute that thing.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS I NEED SLEEP! Oh well, at least I'm awake to
say goodbye to Andrew. Then I roll back over and go back to sleep again.
<br />
<br />
9am I actually get out of bed. The dog has had enough and wants
to go out again. I finally feel like a person again. I grab the new
blanket out of the dryer and remake the bed.</div>
<div>
<br />
I chat
with my sister about her wedding. There's drama already and it's 11
months away. I feel bad cause I remember it all like it was
yesterday...cause it pretty much was. I know it'll all work out and try
to reassure her, but remember my state at that point and know I probably
wouldn't have listened to me at this point either. I'm in for the long
haul and I so unbelievably excited to help make her day as special as
mine was.</div>
<div>
<br />
I pick up the letter from the city,
something about a building inspection that wasn't completed when the
previous owners did an addition. I call both numbers to get more
information but neither guys answer. I leave a message for the main guy
and give him my married name and say my husband and I bought the house
in May. Husband... wow that sounds weird. Weirder than fiance did when
it was new. </div>
<div>
<br />
After that I slink over to couch and
continue operation clean out DVR. I have every intention of not moving
from this couch today until tonight when some of my friends who are in
town are supposed to head over for dinner at 6. I'm not sure how many
are coming yet, I invited spouses and kids, but some think their kids
will destroy the place, eat all the pizza, or kill me with questions. I
like kids so I don't mind, but I bow to them on the final decision.
Besides my house can't be anymore destroyed than it already is, there's
still presents, food, and stuff everywhere. I'm working on cleaning up.
Either way I should have ample time to clean, catch up on TV, and
relax :)</div>
<div>
<br />
I open email and social media and start to
catch up on more messages as I watch. This is the life. Too bad I have
to go back to work tomorrow. I will enjoy today though.</div>
<div>
<br />
11am
the doorbell rings. It's FedEx with a GIANT box from Bed, Bath, and
Beyond. The box is mutilated. I don't understand why these boxes never
get here in one piece, but all I can think about is the additional thank
you notes I must write. Never a dull moment!</div>
<div>
<br />
12pm I sit down to write more thank you notes. It takes me an hour to write ten, but that's ten less that I have to write now.</div>
<div>
<br />
1pm
I'm looking for an old email and stumble upon a short email exchange
between Andrew and I from the first time we dated in 2008. Start to gush
about the fact that I actually kept it, even if it didn't work out that
time. I guess my subconscious knew something I didn't ;)</div>
<div>
<br />
5:30pm
get a call for Mrs. Meyer. I'm literally confused for half a second
before things sink in. We get the building permit thing sorted out.
Nothing we are responsible for thankfully. One less thing to worry about
:)</div>
<div>
<br />
6:15pm the camp girls start arriving for dinner.
We order Imos pizza, salad, and toasted ravioli. We watch the baseball
game. The cardinals lose :( A sad sad end to the season. I guess the
Cubs can fulfill their Back to the Future prophecy now. We move on from
the game, eat dinner and chat for a while, catching up and laughing like
we always do. It's like no time ever passes when we meet up. I don't
get to see them enough, but we always have a blast and I cherish the time we do get to spend together. The girls leave
around 9pm, but luckily I'll get to see them on Saturday for another wedding :)</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<br />
I sit down to finish a show I started before the girls arrived. And now
it's time for bed cause I have to go back to work tomorrow. Sad times.
I'm going to miss the time off, but the real world awaits.</div>
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<div>
Monday, October 12, 2015<br />
<br />
Wake up EXHAUSTED... What day
is it? How is it 9am already? My body is warm and dead... nothing wants
to move. I check my phone... How do I have 150,000 emails? oh 149,990
are facebook comments and pictures we've been tagged in! We both feel so
loved!<br />
<br />
I eventually slink to the bathroom to put in contacts. How am I still so EXHAUSTED???</div>
<br />
I
step on the scale in the bathroom. My weight is down from what I
expected and I haven't worked out in almost a week. How is this even
possible? Before the wedding I would have gained a million pounds if I
didn't work out for a week... Thanks stress! Either way, small victory
that I didn't gain a metric ton of weight! I quietly vow to start
working out on Wednesday after I get back to work even though I should
probably start today... But I'm way WAY too tired! Plus we have stuff to
do.<br />
<br />
I finally get my butt in the shower. I start to feel more
human. I also get the idea for this set of blog posts. I start running
with it. But I'm out of time and have to finish getting ready so Andrew
and I can return duplicate and broken presents and buy a few much
needed items off our registry. In between getting ready, I field phone
calls. I accidentally give someone my maiden name... That's going to
take some serious getting used to... when I decide what I actually want
my name to be... even if I haven't officially changed anything yet.
Soooo not looking forward to that process. I keep thinking of the
million things that my name is on that will need to be changed. All in
due time... <br />
<br />
I scarf down two leftover cinnamon rolls. It's such a glamorous breakfast. But it lets us finally get out of the house.</div>
<br />
We
stop at the bank to make a deposit then meet with Andrew's financial
analyst who I've never met. He's a nice guy but we don't stay long...
Too much to do.<br />
<div>
<br />
We run to Target to try and figure out who
the mystery gift is from but they can't help. That's a shame, I'd really
like to thank someone for that electric screw gun... I guess we're
screwed... <br />
<br />
We grab the couple items we really need including our
bluray player cause its on sale YAY! All in all between coupons and
sales, we save $80. I'll take it!</div>
<div>
<br />
We move next door to
bed bath and beyond to exchange a broken gift and return some
duplicates. We head to the back of the store to grab a copy of our
registry. The woman back there asks us if we know about their completion
event that we apparently should have been told about when we created
our registry. We joke with the woman about being married two days and if
Andrew is the guy i married. It was probably way funnier in person than
it sounds on here. We still decide to pick up another couple of needed
items. Apparently my definition of need and Andrew's is slightly
different. Welcome to married life ;) But we wander the aisles looking
for things on our registry... We only registered 6 months ago... why has
everything in the story moved? Of course I can't find anything cause of
course! But somehow we make it through the store... and pay using our
store credit YAY for that!</div>
<div>
<br />
We head out to go start
discussing honeymoon plans! We both could use a vacation right about
now! Holy moly are we still tired. We can't wait to get out of here! Too
bad we have to wait til January. At least we will get some amazing
weather and skip out on some of the cold! Hawaii here we come!<br />
<br />
We stop at the grocery
store on the way home. Picking up a handful of items plus something for
dinner takes three times longer than it probably should. If anyone finds
my brain please let me know... I'm guessing I ate in my zombie like
state.</div>
<div>
<br />
We finally get home. I grab a late lunch and
start in on the 1 billion thank you notes I have to write. I make a
dent, but i start realizing there's probably more gifts coming. Some of
the stuff off our registry hasn't arrived yet. **groan** I'll be
writing these things FOREVER. So glad I already wrote all the thank
you's for the gifts we got before the wedding!</div>
<div>
<br />
Then I start operation clean out DVR. It's nice and relaxing. I make a small dent but then it's time for dinner.
We get everything cooking and sit down to watch Heroes reborn. We start
some laundry. Then dinner is ready and we watch Quantico. We do dishes
and start the dishwasher. And then it's time for Big Bang Theory.
Leonard and Penny are newlyweds too, but their lives seem so much
simpler. Being a newlywed is soooo not that easy but they have a "dog"
just like us. Wow we are so glamorous! Two days in and we're already an
old married couple. Until we starting playing footsy on the couch... we
like to push each others buttons. That hasn't changed.<br />
<br />
Andrew
starts throwing out silly Halloween costume ideas he sees online, sexy
sorcerer's apprentice, strawberry shortcake, sexy darth vader... why is
everything sexy? then there's sexy chewbaccca ... there's nothing sexy
about a walking carpet... I'll stick to cosplay thanks ;)<br />
<br />
And now it's time for bed... cause TIRED... I'm sensing a theme here... :-P</div>
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