Hi everyone!
Thanks for letting me share my
workspace with you all. As you can see in the photo, my desk and surrounding
space is a bit cluttered. But then, what writer isn't a little messy? I mean, isn't
clutter a prerequisite for creative people?
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it...that and I'm on a short
deadline!
You'll notice that my screensaver
and several of the knick-knacks around my computer are Snoopy. Snoopy is my
muse, a fact on which I've blogged previously.
You may also notice the fuzzy cutie-pie in my chair. That's Zeke. He's a
mama's boy and will always hang out close by while I write. As I write this,
he's napping on the window perch next to my desk, exhausted from his rigorous
photo shoot.
The gold and black fleur de lis
painting in the background is something I picked up at a writer's conference
fund-raising auction for almost nothing.
It says Louisiana to me. Our state's French heritage, Cajun culture...and
of course Saints football!
The big black chair was an
indulgence. Or maybe a necessity. As
many hours as I spend in that chair, it needed to be comfortable and have good
back support.
The calendar in front of my keyboard
keeps me organized and keeps my life on track. It is Cornelison family central,
where I log deadlines, doctor appointments, reminders, to do items, and daily
word counts. I would be lost without my
calendar!
My workspace is one corner of the
guest bedroom, which includes my husband's closet. (I hog all of the master
bedroom closet.)
So...nothing earthshaking here. I dream of the day I can have a whole room
for my office where I can spread out. I'll have whole walls that are full of my
keeper novels by my favorite authors, research books and a chronological supply
of all my backlist books. It's a beautiful dream that smells like a freshly
printed manuscript and sounds like the clickety click of a keyboard going
ninety to nothing!
What am I currently working on in
this office space? I'm putting the
finishing touches on my contribution to a new Harlequin Romantic Suspense
continuity about the Coltons of Eden Falls. This has been a fun story to write
with a Hollywood starlet with toddler twins as the heroine and a traumatized
war veteran as the hero. I'm also working on edits of SOLDIER'S PREGNANCY
PROTOCOL, Book 1 in my upcoming Black Ops Rescues series. When school teacher
Erin Bauer gets entangled in the danger surrounding his search for his missing
black ops partner, Alec Kincaid makes it his personal mission to keep Erin and
her unborn child safe from the men hunting them. Look for SOLDIER'S PREGNANCY
PROTOCOL starting in May and on shelves in early June 2012. Book 2, THE REUNION
MISSION, will be out in August.
Happy reading!
Beth Cornelison
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