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The agony and the ecstasy
Agony: our book signing is postponed. Lauren and I are very disappointed and the bookstore is very frustrated, but they couldn’t get the books in in time. This is not a case of the bookstore dropping the ball, they love erotic romance at the Silverdale Waldenbooks. This is the store that made an end cap for me. But due to whatever warehousing/shipping issues the stock hasn’t arrived. When the books are in, we’ll reschedule. Argh.
Ecstasy: there’s apparently yet another tale out there of an author suffering to make deadline and as always, this is the kind of thing that has me going “huh?” Writing is the GOOD PART. It’s so much fun I’m constantly amazed that it’s legal and that people will pay me to do it.
I wrote 31 pages on Sunday. I wrote 13 yesterday. I loved every minute of it. A comfortable pace for me will produce a book a month and if I could do nothing but sit and write books, that’d be as close to an ideal existence as I can imagine. Of course to keep writing books I have to do other things like paperwork and query letters and composing pitches and whatnot, but really, big deal. It leads to WRITING, and that is my bag, baby.
Writing fool (to the tune of Frank Zappa’s Dancing Fool)
I’m a writing fool this month. I did get all the fixes done to Prop. #2 yesterday and it went away, so woot and a big hug to Sasha for the speedy read. Today I attack Prop. #1 again and add the things that need adding, and then I will be back on Miss Lonely Hearts. Actually I’ve been poking at MLH alongside the proposals but when I finish up this Prop. #1 task MLH will go back to being main focus.
I never updated my site with the release date change on Miss Lonely Hearts, btw, it got moved to May 30 and then even further out due to various things. A new and final date will be set when I turn the book in which I expect to be by the end of this month.
My Master Plan is to be so on top of everything that I can take this weekend off because my parents are coming to visit. And Lauren Dane and I are signing books at Waldenbooks at the Kitsap Mall on Sunday. Er. Must remember to fix hair before then.
The parents were here last in the fall so now Morgan’s gone from an infant to walking around the place and Alex carries on full conversations and counts to ten and reads. Big changes. I’m grateful beyond words to be able to be here for all those changes. My job allows me that flexibility, and believe me it is priceless.
Aside from that, this week I can be found at Jaci Burton’s Paradise where I will give away a signed print copy of The Gripping Beast to a lucky winner and I will be Sasha White’s guest blogger on Friday, where I will be giving away a download of my 2005 RT Award-winning book, Love and Rockets. Should I give something away here, too?
Done and the value of CPs
Proposal #2 is done, except for editing and revising, all the cleanup work. After I get it all fixed up, it’ll go away and I’m back on Proposal #1, more chapters to write. I outlined the work I’m going to do on that yesterday so I have my plan of action all mapped out.
CPs have been invaluable to this process. It’s a time factor; if I had weeks to let things sit after I finished writing, I’d be able to go back objectively and notice all the issues. A fresh pair of eyes can point out in a day all the things it would take me two weeks to note. Also, a fresh perspective can point out things I’d never think of. I never had CPs before I sold, but in light of the time-is-money reality of the working writing life I realized I needed some a while ago. I’m thankful to have them now!
Anyway, today is more cleanup and then I’ve got more writing ahead. Lots of good stuff in the works.
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