Nichole’s Blog

I’m up early this morning.  I have to take my kid to school and then I’m hitting the road.

It’s an 8-hour drive from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Omaha, Nebraska.  I’ll cross the Missouri River twice — first time it’s a beautiful bright blue.  The second time it’s a nasty brownish-black.

I’m excited.  Mayhem in the Midlands starts Thursday.  I hope to blog a lot about it.  I hope to learn a lot.

Still no word from the publisher were I sent my manuscript.  Now I’ll be gone for a week.  With my luck, they’ll probably send me an e-mail while I’m gone!  

Blessings!

Nichole

I’m  going to Mayhem in the Midlands this year.  It’s the only mystery conference I’ve been to, and this will be my second trip there.   It’s a small conference, I guess, but it was SO much fun!

So, despite the economy and the fact I still don’t have a published novel, I opted to attend Mayhem again this year.  Imagine my surprise when I was asked to be on a panel!

I tried to talk my way out of it.  I even offered to moderate one instead — I figured my experience as a journalist would help me out there with asking questions and such.  But the committee kept asking if I’d be ON a panel.  It’s a short story one (good thing since I don’t have a novel published!) and I don’t know who’s on it or anything.

Truthfully, I don’t feel qualified to speak.  There are people in my local writer’s group who have multiple short stories published.  I just have one.  But, as one of my writing buddies told me, this will be good experience if nothing else.  

As nervous and scared as I am (what if the audience determines I’m a poser?), I’m also starting to get a little excited over the prospect.  Maybe I’ll bring 20 or so copies of the Donard Anthology and see if someone will buy them.  Then again, it looks like Amazon is out of stock, so maybe I won’t even be able to order any.  Wouldn’t that be ironic?

I’m sure I’ll ramble more about this topic as the end of May approaches.  I’m sure I’ll have every emotion from pure excitement to complete fright.  But this is what I want to do when I “grow up” and being on a panel is one step closer to seeing my dream a reality.

Blessings!
Nichole