August 22, 2006
Catching Up
Yeah, so I’ve been a tad neglectful of the blog. Again, I’m sure both my readers are devastated.
As for my happy news about Berkley, it was short lived. I received a rejection about two weeks after sending in my MS. Though, I suspect the package might have been damaged in the mail and that may have played a role in such a prompt rejection. Not that I can’t get rejected on my own merit– and I have the ever thickening file to prove it–but shortly after sending out the MS the empty SASE turned up in my mailbox unused and with no post mark. So who can say for sure. It’s just one of those great unsolved mysteries I suppose.
But the story does not end there. Two weeks later, I received and email from another publisher requesting a full. Yay! Interestingly, the same publisher that I forgot to include my SASE in with the submission package. (See Stupidity and Submissions) Funny, huh?
I’ve given up on my paranormal. While I generally don’t advocate walking away from a project midway through, I think in this case it sucked. Not just the whole self-doubt I’m-a-craptastic-hack-whatever-made-me-think-I-could-be-writer sucked, but REEAALLLY not good. Even Muse looked at me dumb founded. I think the whole experience was a lesson in recognizing one’s limitations. Werewolf romance stories are just not for me. I need to stick to the whole spooky romantic mystery thing. And I’ve started a new one inspired in part from my recent trip to the cottage.
I’ll go into detail about that later, and if I can figure out how to attach pictures, I’ll do that too. It’s getting late and I still have chapters to read for Witch.
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