by Charlene Teglia | Jan 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Creative brain is in charge of music. It always has a reason for picking something. And yesterday the combination of The Village People and the list of new Ellora’s Cave anthology themes came together in a big bang of a new story that has me laughing out loud. I’m writing up a synopsis, although I don’t know that I’ll send the result in for the anthology; as it looks now it’s part of a series and that’s a no-no for anthology stories.
The anthology submission deadline is just around the corner, so whatever I do or don’t do I need to decide in the next couple of weeks. (Not the Cavemen anthologies, that deadline’s further out. This is for other anthologies.) Don’t have to actually write my story yet, but I need to send in a proposal if I want to play, so that’s high on my list of priorities for the near future. Along with revising Dangerous and doing whatever promotional things I can for Rockets.
I’m really glad I’ve spent the last week organizing. I’m really prepared to be more productive and I’m going to need to juggle more things simultaneously so that matters. Juggling requires LOTS of organization for me. By nature I’m very single-tracked. Fortunately pregnancy causes me to be more multi-tracked as a sort of side-effect, so it should help me establish the new routine.
Off to go look over the list of themes again and see if anything besides the series story sparks.
by Charlene Teglia | Jan 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Something posessed me to download The Village People’s 17-track album We Want You yesterday and start playing it on iTunes. My husband is tolerating this on the grounds that Thou Shalt Humor Pregnant Women Whenever Possible. I can’t even guess what influence this will have on my writing. If a dancing cop shows up in one of my stories, I can blame We Want You.
Hope everybody’s having a great day out there. I’ll just be here at my desk doing the YMCA.
by Charlene Teglia | Jan 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
No sooner did I blog yesterday than I get an email with the release date for Love and Rockets! It’ll be out February 23, 2005. The front page is being updated with the new information. I’ll be doing an author day on ebooklove to promote Love and Rockets, Yule, and my upcoming Ellora’s Cave releases on Feb. 25.
Also, Love and Rockets was entered into eCataRomance’s SMOOCH of the day and will post on January 22. I’ll put a link to it in the blog when it goes up.
I’m wildly excited about my first Ellora’s Cave release. I’m also delighted that it’s going to be out in February, the love month!
by Charlene Teglia | Jan 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
The CBC group is having one amazing year! Joanne Pence is up for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her Angie Amalfi mystery series, and Robin Lee Hatcher’s Catching Katie is in The Library Journal’s Best of 2004 list. This doesn’t surprise me because I have never seen a more talented, hardworking group of writers and I’m proud to be among them. The group has several distance members (obviously!) so geography is no barrier if anybody out there wants to join in the fun.
Love and Rockets went off yesterday as a complete package, the cover blurb done, a series title added, the excerpt ready to go for the E.C. website, all my revisions approved (yes!). My editor says she can’t wait to see the reviews on this one. I’m looking forward to seeing the cover and to having the release date set. It’s very exciting to see this book becoming a reality. It’s been such a long time coming!
I will be spending the next month doing the revisions on Dangerous Games. Although hopefully it won’t take me that long. I’m not fighting nausea or constantly falling asleep anymore, and it’s not the holidays.
by Charlene Teglia | Jan 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
The Open eBook Forum best-seller list for December has Yule Be Mine at #30. This is just awesome. The list is dominated by ebook releases from traditional print publishers, so for a small independent ebook publisher to be on this list is beyond great. It’s amazingly good news! Yule Be Mine has once again exceeded my expectations.
Other than that, it’s Monday and I’m enjoying my newly organized desk as I dive into the week’s work.
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