I spent Labor Day Weekend–laboring over my manuscript.

Lovely Agent will be taking my current WIP, synopsis, and pitch to NY this week. Gulp! I guess that means this is real, huh? Well, she asked me to write up a short bio and include any contest wins, my role as RWA Online Pres. and any other pertinent info.

This is what I came up with:
Born and bred in Arkansas, Melissa McKenzie Francis is a small town southern girl with big city dreams. (Okay, she dreams of big city shoes, but there’s nowhere to wear them ’round these parts). She graduated from the University of Arkansas with more than an English degree–she also gained the full understanding of the phrase “Woo Pig Sooie!” She now lives just two miles away from William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, MS. Her sassy southern romances have finaled in the NJRW’s Put Your Heart in a Book contest and CRW’s Heart of the Rockies contest. She is currently serving as President of RWA Online Chapter #136.

Who knows, maybe the words Woo Pig Sooie will hypnotize Big City Editor on the spot. LOL

Now, on a personal note: My kids’ soccer season starts tonight. I’m coaching young monkey’s team while hubbykins takes care of coaching eldest monkey. I’m not ready to be running and gunning in full soccer
season mode. Dammit! Somebody get me a nanny!