Starting a NEW Book & Switching Genres!? // A Chatty June/July Catch Up Sess

[@agingerwrites]

grandma chosen one??? cozy fantasy??? satiree???? how many more question marks??? omg that story sounds so fun? also boo to the moving injury. D:

[@LindsayPuckett]

lol thank you so much!

[@AnnaRobbinsWrites]

I feel like you were MADE to write grandma cozy fantasy, I am living for this! ✨✨

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg this is SUCH a compliment LOL

[@saritataurima]

Ahhh never say never 👀 a grandmother's guide to high stakes adventuring is giving cosy hobbit and I am HERE FOR IT 😅🙌

[@Maggie_writes]

I absolutely NEED a grandma cozy fantasy. Great video, Lindsay!! Get well soon! 🫶🏻

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much! **blushes**

[@princesscherry3921]

New glasses are sooo cute!!

[@mercermommy4167]

No I am STOKED for the adult cozy fantasy!!!! Sounds amazing!

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank you! I'm shocked by how many people shared their excitement?!

[@nicoleporter1369]

Your cozy fantasy sounds so good. You need to share it with the world! I would totally read that.

[@LindsayPuckett]

I'm so happy to hear that! LOL **blushes**

[@iseultmerlin9210]

I love the idea of birthday food for the dogs, we give ours new dog toys in wrapping paper and boxes, because they love tearing it all up and making a huge mess 🐕 The grandmother's guide sounds AMAZING

[@LindsayPuckett]

haha it was the first time we tried it! OMG same with our boys-christmas is a mess! and thank you!!!

[@alesswonderland]

I also love the grandma chosen one idea. I think there is a market for it even with the silliness of a middle grade voice. It reminds me of the Lady Trent memoir series as a summary. I have yet to read those yet. I read so much in June and July and now August is slow with reading but that's okay since I am much busier now. My favorite was the Well Met series. I might have said this on a previous video but I finished a rough draft in July!

[@LindsayPuckett]

heck yeah! congrats on the draft! Ooh I read the first in that series and it was so cute! Love the ren faire

[@christinawhisler]

I bought my granddaughter The Odds and The Glass Witch, and she loved them.

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg! This made my day! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

[@KMBatesWrites]

Love these virtual catch-ups! I would totally read your granny gnome story! I'm finishing up my final revisions before I continue agent research and start subbing.

[@LindsayPuckett]

ahhh best of luck!!!! and thank you so much!!

[@HeatherSalterPurvesauthor]

I’m glad you had a very good two months and I am sending healing vibes for your arm. I am hosting a readathon this month and your two books are on my list to read.

[@LindsayPuckett]

how amazing! I hope you enjoy!!!! And thank you for the healing vibes!

[@JoeyPaulOnline]

Hope your arm gets better soon! I had a busy few months, finished drafting for a while and now alllll the revisions! 😅

[@LindsayPuckett]

revisions! wahoo! and thank you so much! i need it lol

[@ChelseyFuredi]

Lindsay cooking channel with the hot new kitchen when?? ❤ My personal tea is I’m on sub with my 2nd book and I’m already dying! Been binging your submission vlogs to get through 😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh boy you don't want that from me LOL XD ooh sub! I hope the videos are helping! Its rough out there

[@trisha4life17]

Omg I loved this!!!! I am so glad to hear that you are doing better with your arm!!!!

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank you! and I am! Just taking it easy

[@idatherese]

Love your grandma garden gnome idea

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg how cool!

[@hufflepuffins]

your new book sounds amazing!! good for you, fantasy grandma character, go have your adventure!! 🐝🧙‍♀💚

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL thank you so much XD

[@brittneysbookshelf9491]

Omg I love the grandma chosen one garden gnome. I am here for this. If you don't end up sending it to your editor, you should consider making a patreon where you do like videos of each chapter of this woman's journey.

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg don't tempt meeee LOL

[@wordswithtaylorleigh]

Best book: not new but nothing has compared since. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Worst book: The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic Querying: withering my soul into a husk but your videos are always encouraging! I love your cozy fantasy idea!

[@LindsayPuckett]

I loved The Very Secret Society! So cute! Hate to hear about your withered soul lol hang in there!!! and thank you so much

[@madebymalayka]

I love these updates! Feels like catching up with a friend after ages 🫶🏾 I'm glad the doggo had a great birthday - Happy belated 11th, buddy! 🥺 Hopefully August/September brings even more good nees 🙏🏾

[@LindsayPuckett]

that's exactly how I want the videos to feel so this makes me so happy! and Max says thank you! haha

[@kaleidokai11]

oh no i wanna read ur grandma dnd story so bad that sounds so good

[@kaleidokai11]

also my dogs are good, theyre aussies lol and we spent all yesterday learning a new trick haha. best book i’ve read recently is how far the light reaches by sabrina imbler.

[@LindsayPuckett]

OMG SO HAPPY YOUR BABIES ARE DOING GREAT. Aussies are so smart! I bet they love learning tricks

[@MrRorosuri]

Grandma chosen one. Sounds so good 🎉🎉🎉😊

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank you! I'm very excited for it XD

[@LanieBuck]

A granny gnome story! I love it!

[@LindsayPuckett]

It's so silly and fun!

[@eminorthworld]

I love writing for funsies ❤ enjoy the process you never know

[@LindsayPuckett]

exactly!

[@MrRorosuri]

❤❤❤

[@heyrenahy]

This grandma book…. Amazing. Sign me up. ♥️

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL omg thank you so much!

[@Lara_Ameen]

What a great wrap up! But I’m so sorry about your arm! I hope it heals quickly! 🥰 I’m glad you had a successful move! Love seeing your author set up with your books and that wonderful pile of Squishmallows! I’m obsessed with stuffed animals, so 😂 You know how much I love the concept of BITTER BONES! Also, love the Adult cozy fantasy idea! Definitely send it to your agent sometime. It sounds absolutely delightful! I’d definitely read it! 😍🥰 I do want to tell you something, but I will DM you instead. Hopefully it makes your day! 🥰 I did start querying my PhD dissertation novel on July 1st and so far it’s either been rejections or silence. I don’t mind, though. TV writing is a thousand times worse than this and keeps getting even worse (you can’t query either, I mean, you can, but it’s not common). I know my novel will eventually find a literary agent. I don’t know what my future with TV writing is if I don’t get into these fellowships (haven’t heard anything yet). 😭💔 Doggos are doing okay. Happy Birthday to Maximus! Love that they got a special treat for dinner. 🥹💜

[@LindsayPuckett]

thanks so much, Lara! Hopefully a fellowship and an agent comes you way soon!

[@emileebeachy6841]

Whats hilarious about your glasses is I was admiring them all the way through the video and then you were like 'these are new!' 😂😂😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

awh thank you so much! haha

[@storiesbydesirae]

Your chosen one grandma book sounds really good and fun! You explained it well. I'd definitely be interested in it if you do self-publish it. It was nice to see this catch up video :) That's wild but nice at the same time that it's basically your same apartment but reversed. Haha I am preparing for the release of my debut YA contemporary novel, Home Sweet Home (with the word sweet crossed out) in September. I'm still working on scheduling good marketing videos for it. Progress is happening, I just gotta keep moving forward.

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank you! Ooh and so exciting about your book release! Best of luck!

[@storiesbydesirae]

@@LindsayPuckett thank you!!

[@maceykellerwrites]

I love that you are writing your dnd character’s story! I started the first draft of my Young Adult Fantasy novel in July and the drafting process has been going really well! Almost too well, it feels a bit suspicious 😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL don't question it-just ride the wave XD

[@RoseKindred]

I wanna read more about the Grandma Gnome! Hearing about it reminds me of "Mrs. Perivale and the Blue Fire Crystal" by Hoffman.

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh interesting! I'll have to look that one up!

[@Evergreen150]

I'd love to read your cozy fantasy grandma story! The way you talked about it reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and there is certainly a market for them :)

[@LindsayPuckett]

this just reminded me that i wanted to start reading discworld this year! i think i'll start with the old lady witch series!

[@lindseyerin275]

OMG LINDSAY!!!!! **shakes fist at the sky** If you don’t publish/self pub the grandma chosen one book….well, I don’t have anything to threaten but I want it!!!

[@lindseyerin275]

Also I am deeply in love with the concept and title so I NEED YOU TO MAKE IT REAL

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOOOL thank you so much! I've gotten so many lovely (and threatening LOL) comments about it...so we shall see!

[@lindseyerin275]

@@LindsayPuckett also I feel like you need to read the Riley Thorn series by Lucy Score - lots of fun elderly shenanigans :)

[@jenniferrs9984]

You just made me feel so much better about wanting to create a new outline for another story while working on one already. Yay for personal projects, yay for cozy stories! Yay for cool glasses (i should order a new pair, my lenses are all messed up).

[@LindsayPuckett]

lol thank you so much! and heck yeah-DO IT!!!

[@JulieBrg]

Loved this video as always. Your grandma fantasy story sounds AMAZING. Like the pitch sounds like it would either be a Brandon Sanderson secret novel or a Pixar movie. My month of July has been wild in terms of writing. (For context, I am French, we deal with publishers directly, not with agents.) Not one, but TWO publishers contacted me this month to ask me to write novels for them, because they liked the short story I won a writing contest with last fall! One of the projects is middle grade, the other one is adult, and I can't wait to get started working on them.

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh my gosh Sanderson or Pixar?! that's a massive compliment! thank you! ooh and congratulations! That is so exciting!!!!

[@malikamaybe]

Ayeeee, I remember you talking about lovely garden gnome grandma before (you had a super cute picture of her too iirc???). Yay for cozy fantasies! I def want to pick up more of them. June and July had 628293 caregiving appointments, but that’s mostly over so I’ve had to face my ‘nervousness over querying’-induced procrastination to get through my final revision lol. And dhnskskshs getting the word count down over here too lol, mine’s a YA fantasy that ended at 106k initially, I got it to 101k, some beta notes have me right now thinking it’ll end up 103k and I’m gonna wrestle it down to 99k before querying (I know under 105k is prob not autoreject territory for most agents with YA fantasy and is okay, but bleh I know 99k is better for my chances lol). The renovated apartment looks so good! And I’m sorry about your arm. Hopefully recovery isn’t too bothersome! And haksohssk HoTD yes. I adore Rhaenyra with everything in me and I want her to wed two wives and have a peaceful stay on the Iron Throne in the end (unlikely but hey lol). The season finale felt like the second-to-last episode of a season rather than the last, but I still enjoyed it (especially the first half). Okay, you didn’t mean for us to respond to basically everything in the video lol. Love these update videos and rooting for you with your September 1st deadline! 💕

[@LindsayPuckett]

no PLEASE I love a good porky comment! LOL agree about the last HOT D episode. The showrunner said the series got changed from a 10 ep to 8 ep after filming, so I bet anything that the first two eps of season 3 will be what we were supposed to get as the last 2 for season 2! Good luck with your trimming! Yeah, it's always safer in the 5 digit word counts than 6 lol

[@MarshmallowBard]

I wanna read the grandma gnome adventure book so much. I've been wrapped up in getting ready to move and start a new job next month, and losing my sanity over paperwork. I've had to put my two books on hold until things get settled, but I'm in the first rounds of edits for my Halloween Fey story and halfway done with zero draft of my Oz Retelling

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh my goodness you are so busy!! hang in there!!

[@tgrebnesor]

Omg I feel like your Granny Garden Gnome and my Curmudgeony Druid-turned-Hag would either be bffs or mortal enemies 😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

FRIENEMIES! LOOOL

[@fralou_sind_kreativ]

At what stage (what draft) are you proposing your newest novel to publishers/your agent? I feel like I could work at draft five and still not feel ready to send it in, because I feel it has to be perfect before someone sees it and thinks it could be good enough that someone wants to buy it. Your new project with the Gnome sounds awesome and a bit Terry Pratchett-like :D

[@LindsayPuckett]

I don't let anyone see anything until my 3rd draft because I am the same! haha ahh I need to read some Pratchett! and thank you so much!

[@fralou_sind_kreativ]

@@LindsayPuckett Thanks for answering, that's helping me a lot!

[@froggyentity]

'There is something deep inside of me that loves the idea of being a cult leader.' Should we be concerned? 😂 And the whimsical glasses look great!

[@LindsayPuckett]

YES BE VERY CONCERNED loool and thank you so much!!

[@dorkphoenixrising]

My sci-fi has a grandma protag but can I find any comp titles? Nope. I'm in a second draft slump and need to reconnect with the project somehow 😮‍💨

[@LindsayPuckett]

that sound so cool though! hate to hear that about your project :( maybe list out all the reasons you started writing it/why you love it???

[@feuillue9661]

You might like "the dressmaker" film with Kate Winslet. It's got whimsy and has the feels of a middle grade book for adults.

[@LindsayPuckett]

ooh thanks for the rec!

[@Julia-lg7dt]

You should read ”The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”. It’s from sweden and became a best seller! It’s not fantasy but really wierd and funny.

[@LindsayPuckett]

Ooh!

[@annastride]

Omg, your husband totally sold that dog food 🍽️ can humans have it, too? 😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

right!? LOL

[@Neil-writer-author]

I’ve been writing in my journal a lot. A lot of losses. I hope to write three days a week.

[@LindsayPuckett]

journaling can be so good! And 3 days a week is a great goal :)

[@ladyursala]

My update is that I’ve been querying for eight months with no bites, but one encouraging rejection. I’m trying to draft a new book but have gone through the longest dry spell I’ve ever experienced. I think I haven’t emotionally let go of my previous novel and can’t connect with a new project. I started one but it seemed a bit too “out there” and not commercial enough. I tried a second project this April and now that I’ve sat down to draft, I find myself in no way attached to these new characters. It’s frustrating because I’ve put a lot of brainstorming and research into both of these projects and am still coming up dry. 😔

[@LindsayPuckett]

ugh i'm sorry about your writing/querying drought. It's rough out there! Maybe you could try listing the reasons you want to write this new story/what you love about it to get yourself excited again?

[@ldfm-z5r]

Is your new place bigger?

[@LindsayPuckett]

nope! same exact size

[@Halliechris_writes]

Please give the grandma book to your agent!

[@LindsayPuckett]

XD imagining her face if she got this project in her in-box... LOL

[@aquariusowl3872]

How do the pups like living in the opposite house 😁

[@LindsayPuckett]

They keep going to the wrong side of every door (hinge side) waiting for it to open that way xD

[@aquariusowl3872]

@@LindsayPuckett 🤣😂 poor puppies

[@WilliamBilsters]

Writing isn't going super well 😅. My brother and his pregnant wife along with their 3 year old son are staying in our house right now until baby #2 arrives this September. After coming home from work, most of my time is stolen by my nephew where I engage in an imaginative play with him up until 9pm (I don't mind and I want to be an active participant to my nephew's development. Not to toot my own horn, but he likes me far better than his dad 🤣). I know this only scratches the surface, but kudos to the parents who can still write even after hours of playtime with their kids. All i want to do in the end is read a book and sleep, manuscript be damned (for now) 😂.

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh wow! Uncle of the year! haha And, Eh. Sometimes certain seasons of life aren't about writing. This just happens to be one not for you. Enjoy your family!

[@labyrinthofallthings]

I'd read the whimsey silly and I'm an adult. :)

[@labyrinthofallthings]

Ahhh another person who tabs everything they see. LOL I think everybook i have is tabbed. lol

[@labyrinthofallthings]

LOL the dog is like Come'on Brian gimme my food. Lol 🤣

[@labyrinthofallthings]

hope your arm feels better and heals fast soon. Things were a bit nutty for me. I did manage some words about 7k ish give or take. No reading as much as I wanted to just never had a quiet moment. I think mother nature wants to kill me with allergies. LOL

[@LindsayPuckett]

oh no! Hope the allergies subside soon! but 7k is still more than you had before! and thank you so much

[@helentriestodothings628]

Please tell ME about your cats! I’d love to hear about their life!

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL you know good and well everyone's cats are living like royalty!

[@helentriestodothings628]

@@LindsayPuckett of course but I still want to hear about it!

[@susanmonroemcgrath]

Won't lie, this entire video felt off-kilter due to the left/right swapping of background furniture! I will immediately be looking into Cult of the Lamb....

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL See!? it's so weird! and DO ITTTT

[@braydenm715]

Um im sorry- can I please PREORDER the grandma adventure novel immediately?!?!?!

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL **blushes**

[@TheReelNerdyReview]

What are you the Stephen King of Book writing now where’s the magic 💊 I can’t even finish writing one book Good luck by the way I still have to finish the glass witch

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL I may have a lot of books on the go but it takes about 84 years to complete one XD

[@ldfm-z5r]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has over 76,000 words so how come your 71k is too much?

[@LindsayPuckett]

Mainly because the industry is very different that it was in 1998. And I'm writing horror, not fantasy. :/

[@alyce4674]

GIRL! I'm a month late to this update, but STILL... Your description of Chosen Garden Gnome Grandma is giving me full-on Terry Pratchett vibes, and I swear to all that is chaotically good in the world, we Need more of that. So I hope you have fun writing it with no thoughts about expectations! But if you get the inkling to 'consider' doing something with it, I think CGGG would find a home in the hearts and hands of Tons of adults looking for more whimsy on this twirling space rock. I hope the arm is healing well! ❤‍🩹 Also: I LOOOOOVE CULT OF THE LAMB. Cutest diabolical vibes EVER, and I absolutely need to get back to that. It's so soothing? Is that a questionable thing for me to say? Probably won't bring it up to my therapist.