Updates – Page 2 – J. L. Odom

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The goings-on lately: That’s all for today!

It Gets Easier. But Also, It Doesn’t

On Saturday I drove out of the dry and windy desert, through fog and rain-soaked mountains, to a city of angels by the ocean. All this, so that I could do a Jiu Jitsu competition. I sign up for these things many months ahead of time, when I am still coming down from the highContinue reading “It Gets Easier. But Also, It Doesn’t”

My Book Cover

So I’m finally posting my book cover! Ebook is up for pre-order on Amazon (affiliate link: By Blood By Salt) and the paperback and hardcover will be up for pre-order in the next week or two.

A Moment of Sharp Hypocrisy

So we had a few (minor) hiccups in the book upload process, the first of which my husband labored some hours to fix, the last of which was swiftly resolved and approved. But when that one small image was the wrong color on the eproof, and I saw we would have to revise the uploadContinue reading “A Moment of Sharp Hypocrisy”

A Discipline

My thoughts are scattershot right now, puncturing here, glancing off there, not really going anywhere. Not collected or concentrated enough to have proper depth. But, as we all know, writing is far more about discipline than inspiration, so here I am writing a blog post in the manner that one must fold laundry or doContinue reading “A Discipline”

So Here’s How This Goes

Self-publishing, it’s all the rage! Do your own thing! Get your book out there! Defy the masters of traditional publishing who say what books can and cannot be published! Right? Well, not exactly. I think there are some major pitfalls to hopping on the self-publishing train, which have very little to do with the steepContinue reading “So Here’s How This Goes”

An Update

Well, well, well. It’s been a minute since I’ve even attempted to write a post. Here’s the down and dirty update, with a more detailed one to follow: -My agent left agenting (did I mention that) so I had to decided if I was going to start from scratch and query again, or self-publish. IContinue reading “An Update”

Fallow Fields

This last year has been a difficult one for me, though not really because of the pandemic. I spent the first several months of the year pregnant with twins and the latter half of the year with newborn twins and all the attendant challenges: bitter exhaustion, frustration, feeling like I wasn’t giving my other kidsContinue reading “Fallow Fields”

In Other News: Twin Birth Story

Okay so this isn’t usually the sort of blog post I write (and it is also the reason I haven’t written one in a long time) but when I found out I was pregnant with my “fourth” and ever-so-casually went to my first prenatal appointment–I mean, none of this is new to me by now–allContinue reading “In Other News: Twin Birth Story”

Currently Reading

Thanks to my project-loving husband, I now have a literal ‘currently reading shelf.’ He was feeling antsy, and desperate for a project for which no materials would need to be purchased. Thankfully we had 3 little wood crates left over from the shoe-storage solution he built a year ago. From them he made a lovelyContinue reading “Currently Reading”