Bootsy's Breaking News

Hello All,

Yes Bootsy is back at least for a moment. I haven't been here because as you know from my last post I was just tired of things. I've been resting. Now I've found out I have time to work on a lot of other things. I try to blog when I have something inspirational, comical or at least witty to say. Some people blog just to talk about nothing. That's fine and dandy but I'm too busy to blog about just anything in general so I try to make it something that needs to be said. I'm blogging this Saturday to let you know a few things. If I don't update as much as I usually do in the near future, once you read this passage, you'll see why.

I got a call from my publisher Thursday. Turns out he's granted me more time to do the Jessica Simpson thing. The company is moving in a deeper direction with their biographies so he wants a bigger book and as much information as I can give. So that means even more research but I am not complaining. Writing is my job right? So the good part of this is that I have more time to rest and not have to worry about trying to get that book in right now.

I've recently started another novel and so I have a chance to work on that now.

He also informed me that he was hoping to embark on printing fiction but since they're not really a fiction company he's allowed me to search out publishers for that. I guess this is good news though I am disappointed. It's not that I don't have faith in myself. You have to believe in yourself or else who will right? But I just don't want to go through that agent/publisher search thing all over again. People swear it's going to be easy since I have a name in the industry now but will an agent or fiction publisher I get want my work because of its content or only because I have a name? Things that make me go hmm. An author pal in one of the writer's groups I no longer associate with, said that when he first came he couldn't get an agent to give him the time of day. Of course all authors have been down that route right? Now, since he's published and has made it on the Essence Best Seller list numerous times, they come to him. Including one lady who rejected his work before. He didn't go with her company but he said it wasn't out of spite just out of common sense. He said, " If she didn't believe in me then, why believe in me now? " Excellent point. I am anti-agent. I'm sorry but the way some of them treat writers is ridiculous. But now, I realize it will be good to acquire one. I won't have to do all the work myself. They can handle things for me and that will allow me to focus on the books. Believe me, it's getting tough to juggle writing with the business side of everything. And hell maybe then I can get a personal life. And a man! I like being single but at times I do get lonely for some companionship from the opposite sex. Being a career woman is a bitch at times. Hey I love being independent but at times…I want someone (a guy) to hang out with too.

Bootsy is going back on her word and will soon search for an agent. Any of you author pals reading this, if you have a good agent and feel they would be interested, let me know. In the mean time I will search through the usual channels.

Okay uh, what else…ah " Divas of the New Millennium ". Well, some of you already know from my interviews that the book was compiled after I wrote the separate bios of Jennifer Lopez, Ashanti and Mya. Natasha Lowery wrote the Alicia Keys biography. I thought our books would still be released separately but my publisher said they felt it was best to just have this compilation. He said that due to the failures of Alicia Keys' autobiography and Ashanti's poetry book he didn't feel the books would sell well separately. Well " Divas " is very successful so at least that's something. It gives me a platform for my fiction, which is all I care about.
Let me see, what else?

Guess that's it for now. I'll keep you all in touch. My plate is fuller than an obese man's at an all you can eat restaurant. Ha, okay maybe that was corny but…have a good weekend!

With love,
Bootsy

P.S. If you haven't gotten " Divas of the New Millennium " yet, you’re left behind in the crowd and you ought to be ashamed! Go get it today!

The photo is of the very talented and gorgeous actor who I deeply admire Larenz Tate, scanned by me. I've seen tons of his work and he impresses me each time.