Words Seasoned With Salt

The Latest News in the Life of Aspiring Author, Pepper D. Basham

Updated – October 13, 2010

Lots of rejections this year – but…I’m on God-time, so I’ll just take whatever He wants to give

Just got news in mid-September that my contemp romance won the Inspirational Category of the TARA.

Attended ACFW on Sept 17-20. FABULOUS time and met the SEEKERS and Cathy Marie Hake – plus so many more. Revell & Barbour asked for proposals for my contemp romance

Strang asked for a full for my Speculative Fiction

Bethany House asked for full for my Historical Fiction

VERY, VERY busy!!

Updated – October 28, 2009

My contemporary novel It Had To Be You was sent to the the editors who had asked for a full on October 10th. Woohoo.

My WWI one-pager, The Thornbearer has found interest with four editors. So…next on my writing agenda is to get that novel ready for proposal.

MomSense Magazine, an affiliate of MOPS International & Christianity Today, is going to publish my article Start Talking 101 in their January/Feb edition. My FIRST paid writing job. Yeah!

Updated – September 19, 2009

My short story, Second Impressions, was published in Regency Author Linore Rose Burkard’s ezine last week.

Check it out at:  http://aseasonwithausten.blogspot.com/2009/09/linore-rose-burkard-regency-ezine-my_10.html 

or for a direct link to the short story, try this:

http://www.linoreburkard.com/Second%20Impressions.pdf

Moody Press asked for the full-manuscript of It Had to Be You – so I’m plugging along with revisions. I think I’m going to change the title to Love Is Here To Stay.

Updated – August 15, 2009

• Kregel Publishing asked for  my full manuscript of my Romantic Comedy It Had to Be You on August 1, 2009
• I submitted It Had to Be You to The Golden Rose Writer’s Contest on August 7, 2009
• Two months ago, I sent my Juvenile Fantasy series The Book of Beginnings to AMG Publishers
• On May 21, 2009 It Had to Be You won The Award of Excellence in Christian Literature at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers’ Conference