I'm going to print!

This is official notice that I, L.F. Goodwyn, am going to print on Febuary 28, 2006. The release date of An Aspirin for a Heartache is tenatively scheduled for mid-April or early May it just depends on how things go. But you all have been officially notified. Do be on look for An Aspirin for a Heartache.
-L.F. Goodwyn

Poetry-shmoerty... I'm a writer!

First things first, I got accepted in to the creme-de-la-creme ring! I'm nuber 8 out of 144. I'm telling you this is some good stuff I'm talking about. I need a book deal.
Okay now for the real entry.
Poetry- shmoerty--I'm a writer! Until I sat down and laced some words together and this is what I came up with:

How can you claim to be pro-life
When you take a man from the streets
And drown out his heart beat
With lethal injection
No love and affection
Just the department of corrections
Pro-life when it’s another child born into poverty
Necessary for you to keep your divine sovereignty
Forty years on this earth and every month you bleed
I find it hard to believe
That you were never able to conceive,
But there was that time in college
When you didn’t have the knowledge
To raise a daughter or son
Your life had just begun
So now you’re hovering like a fiend
Over a disorientated teen
Belly is swollen, but she still has dreams
Hopping she’ll give you the opportunity to wipe your slate clean.
Pro-choice when you’re just starting your life
Unless you’re a wife
After you have lived your life
Stayed out and partied all night
Now it’s time to be nice
and play patty cake well in to the night
this child you’ll raise right
You’ll give her the world
Your “priss-pot” little girl
Put bows in her hair
Teach her to put her nose in the air
Because she is the Air to the throne of superiority
The throne of authority
Pro-life, so you say,
And with a straight face you may
Fool yourselves
But no one else

So now I'm a poet too!

L.F. Goodwyn

Happy belated New Year!

I'm back! I read all of the Maya Angelou books that I talked about plus one more. I love her! And I'm half way through another.
So I sent out 20 queries, and got three request to see the first three chapters. I just sent them last week so I haven't heard anything, yet. Still haven't heard from Agate, I thought about emailing him and asking his what's the deal, but I'll wait. I figured, if he were interested he would have said so by now. I got two rejections already. One from Audra Barrett and one from Stephanie Lee, who had the first fifty pages since July. Then had the nerve to not answer my emails in November, when I asked her if I could send to another agent. Then I wrote her back and told her how rude she was , then she wrote me back before thanksgiving saying she hadn't got to it yet, but had the nerve to send me her generic decline letter with not so much as a signature, the week of Christmas! Just imagine, if I wasn't thick skinned. Do you know how devastating that would have been when I first started this thing? Any how, that's what's going on. I'm sifting through the MS again, this is the last time unless I get a book deal, otherwise this sucker is going to press!
Oh, my New Year was good. I started a 21 day fast from sugar. I'm doing good. I cheated twice though. I had a graham cracker. I wondered if that was really cheating, but then it had cinnamon and sugar on top, so I figured it was. Then I had a small handful of Crunch-n- munch. But other than that everything's good. I started back working out. I've lost some weight.
I'm gone! I'll keep you posted on this publishing thing.