Busy Day Full of Everything!

How do I start this? No idea. Am I going to write anyway? Well, have you known me to do anything else? Haha. So this week has been busy for me. I'm getting set up in therapy, I'm publishing Head Hunters, and I found out I was behind in English Comp. I have since had three appointments this week at the therapists' office, all in a row. Not to mention I'm working on Fight for Equality and had thoughts plaguing my mind. In the good and bad way. 

So therapy is where I'll start. I had to talk to three different professionals to get my new therapist. And after talking about my life and trauma three different times in three different ways to three different professionals I have determined that I am one tough cookie. Each professional asks "Do you do drugs?" "Do you drink alcohol?" "Do you smoke?" And although I have experimented with drinking (did not end well) and smoking cigarettes (ended slightly worse than drinking), but I never relied on those no matter how bad my life may or may not have been. I don't want to rely on the wrong vices for anything. I'm proud that I'm the kind of woman to stand strong no matter what happens to me. I love knowing how strong I am. It makes me confident. 

Also I need to share some photos. 

This is my Facebook profile pic. 

I wrote this with it: "When I look like this I'm being inspired to write most of the time. Some of the time it could mean I'm plotting evil. 

angel emoticon devil emoticon"

My Facebook cover photo. 

So I sent the manuscript, the book cover Richard designed, and I answered interview questions about my book and what I wanted it to look like. 

Here are the answers I shared on Facebook via my professional fanpage Kaylyn Gabbert, Author: 

"About the author (had to be done in third person): Kaylyn Gabbert started writing at the age of eleven and thanks to her stepmother and father she got better each year she continued to write. Her father was the most supportive of her writing once he came to terms with the fact Kaylyn was making up characters names for fun and not because she didn’t love her own name.
After Kaylyn lost her father at the age of seventeen she found that writing was a healthy way to cope with loss, and that’s when she wrote Drag Me to Hell. Once Kaylyn finished that book she thought about conversations she had with her dad about wanting to be an author, so she worked her butt off to publish her first book nationwide. After Kaylyn noticed how good it felt to be a published author she wanted to work toward becoming a bestselling author in the future. Every day Kaylyn works toward that goal.

Teaser for the book: This book follows a music nymph and her friends learning to be themselves and facing the deadly Head Hunters (poachers of supernatural beings). When Angel gets her powers she finds out she’s on the endangered species. Her friends who are werecreatures, angels, and witches are being poached as well. Head Hunters want the werecreatures’ pelts and the angels’ wings and such. How would you feel if people wanted to kill you for a certain body part? Would you be okay if hunters wanted to kill a family member of yours just for a piece of them?

(My husband thought that teaser was perfect. heart emoticon )

Telling Mom everything. heart emoticon

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Link to fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaylyn-Gabbert/515387565216240 

So according to the woman I'm working with at AuthorHouse, Ms. Palmer, "I’ll let you know as soon as I receive a feedback from our Content Evaluators so once the book materials passes the evaluation..." 

I'm now waiting, a little nervous, but I got to keep a good head on my shoulders. I'm a good author. If things need to be changed I'm going to be professional and fix what needs to be fixed. 

Onto Fight for Equality info. I went on a date with Richard, and as per usual on the bus rides to and from places I was listening to one of my Zunes. For people who don't know my work music is a HUGE inspiration to my protagonists; Pandora Snow and Angel Shudo. So listening to music usually inspires me. Before Richard and I got to our date I was inspired to write two blurbs about blog entries I want to write for Fight for Equality. On our way home from the date I thought of three more blurbs to write. I wrote three pages of notes for those blog entries. While Richard and I were on our date we went to a store that's kind of amazing, kind of a trap called Five Below. Everything there is $5 or lower, but if you're not careful you can spend like $20 on four rinkie dink items. Anyway, I found this "Pocket" Science Encyclopedia, and when we got home, Nana wanted to look at it. She made me look through every page once then insisted on "reading" it to me three other times before we could put the book away. When I looked at it later I found some pages that will help me with my Head Hunters characters. I haven't written all the notes I want to yet but I'll keep this post open till I'm done taking notes for the day. 

Now onto those thoughts that have been plaguing me lately... I've been thinking about- Well, I want some friends here in New York. I want to be able to get out of the house, and I don't know- socialize a bit. Ever since I left Colorado my friend-making skills seem to be lacking? I feel like I've become too anti-social... And that makes me sad. I mean don't get me wrong I have a couple friends here in New York. I have Eric and Boomer. I love hanging with Richard, but friends are nice too. Eric comes out and hangs out with us, but we rarely go places. :p And Boomer has like two-three jobs so seeing him is tough. I want chick friends here, but the ones I met so far are too judgmental or are a little on the flighty side. Like in Washington, I have Twin and Sammy, and they're like my best friends but they can't go to the mall with me and such. I want friends here who I can trust and hang with. And some of those bad thoughts bugging me are nightmares about me being a horrible person. Not trustworthy. Not worthy of being a friend. I already have self-esteem issues, and people and nightmares telling me/treating me like I'm not worth people's time hurts like hell. I know, this is not great news, but it really needed to come out. It's been on my mind for months. Maybe I can make more friends. :) Hope to get lucky. 

So I forgot to mention in my last blog how cool, it is to write from sixteen points of view. I seriously love it. One of the points of view feels like it's from my dad. <3 Then there is a mom character who's like Mom. Well like two characters are like my mom. Haha. What can I say? Even though I met Mom in 2012 (Richard's mom who is totally always Mom to me. She looks out for me like all her kids.), she's super amazing, intelligent, thoughtful, and waaaaay protective. But that's what makes Mom such an inspiration to me. Rian and Cassadee are like the parents I think Richard and I will be in the future. The kids are all different kinds of kids and it's like natural when I write from their points of view. But I kind of had to like channel them. I was writing notes for Stryker (werewolf), Celeste (weretiger), and Aria (witch and Celeste's girlfriend). I was writing facts I learned about wolves and tigers. Did you know wolves communicate through body language and facial expressions? And a hunting pack of wolves can howl so loud that wolves and other creatures from up to six miles can hear their howls? Did you know tigers are the largest of the big cat family and the largest living carnivores on land? How about their are only five  surviving species of tiger? There's also Siberian tigers are the largest of the tigers weighing up to 770 lb and measure up to 10 feet in length. How do I know all this? I just got the science encyclopedia last night, and those facts are needed for werewolves and weretigers. In my opinion knowing facts about the animals help my werecreatures become more realistic. For Aria, her favorite animals are butterflies. I'm still reading about them because the book has two pages on them. Later, I will read the other sections on the book and maybe give you guys some more info. :) Give me a sec to finish up writing the notes for Aria. Be right back, guys. *waves* And I'm back. It took a while to write the notes for Aria. So today I've been hard at work with everything. I counted my how many pages of notes I have in my Fight for Equality book, and I'm currently up to 166 pages. Someone's a dedicated author. 

Anyway, I'll let you guys go. Sorry for keeping you. I also wanted to let you know I like that even though I go to school online I am able to talk to other students. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll make friends through there. :) 

I was going to post this a little earlier like two hours ago, but our wifi was on the fritz. Anyway, good night everyone and sweet dreams to you all.