I'm author ELLE STRAUSS and welcome to my website!

I write fun, lower Young Adult (teen) fiction to do with whimsical things like time-travel, fairies and merfolk.

When my serious side peeks out, she's called LEE STRAUSS. She likes to write upper YA about real things that have happened in the past, or made up things that could quite possibly happen in the future.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Monday Musings

1. Happy Memorial Day to all my American friends. In Canada our May long weekend was last week, known as Queen Victoria Day where we celebrate the Queen's birthday. In case you were wondering.

2. CLOCKWISE is FREE! On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/CLOCKWISE-book-one-Clockwise-ebook/dp/B005WOFX4M

If you have a Kobo or an iPad, iPod, iphone, CLOCKWISE is FREE for you,too. If you haven't read it yet, what are you waiting for?  (also free on Smashwords)  :=)

 3. It's a time of transition for our family. The oldest graduated from University recently and the youngest is about to graduate from High School. The middle two left home, the third one for the first time. We had one day we were all home together for family photos and of course it had to rain. We actually got a great shot because of it.

Yes, I'm the short one.
4. I sent SEAWEED off to one of my editors on Saturday! It's a fun merfolk book and I really enjoyed writing (and re-writing...) it. Yay, now just got to get working on a cover.

5. Now that I'm finished with the Clockwise Series (Clocked to be released soon) I'm deciding what to work on next. Playing with Matches is still on the sidelines. It needs editing but I'm not sure if I'm ready to delve into this daunting task or not. I'm hoping to get to Nuremberg and Passau (the two cities the story is set in) this fall.

What I'm really itching to get back to is my science fiction/dystopian ms, tentatively called Perception. I wrote it alternating between two POVs, but now I'm thinking that book one should be in the girl's POV only, and then book two in the guy's.

So many decisions!

How about you? How was your weekend? What are you working on now?
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7 comments:

  1. Happy Memorial Day! I'd actually forgotten since France's memorial day is toward the beginning of the month. Congrats on getting SEAWEED off to editors! That's great! I'm working on a contemporary YA novel that is currently without genre. LOL Hope I figure out what it is soon!

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    1. And we don't have memorial day in Canada, we do our remembering in November. Last week was the Queen's birthday, so that's what we get an extra day off for.

      I have trouble with genre too. It just means we're too interesting for just one! :)

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  2. Lovely family! My oldest is graduating and going off to art school this fall. That will be an adjustment.
    Congrats on the books, you've been busy!

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    1. The biggest change is when the first one leaves. It gets easier after that. :)

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  3. That is a great picture!

    I'm actually outline two different projects...another story in my existing Thriller/Suspense series, and a YA Horror. Still trying to decide which one to tackle first. Have a wonderful weekend!

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    1. Glad to see you're still in the game, DL!

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  4. Uhhg, I've got so many friends w/kids graduating HS right now, and it's freaking me out. We're still like 8 yrs away, but I know those years are going to FLY--look at this one!

    So merfolk I'm not doing, but my newest MS is sort of SF... (Is everyone doing that now?) GOOD LUCK w/everything! Hope CLOCKWISE is flying~ <3

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