Giving hope, and then snatching it away with both hands. No, Janni, Ben is not dealing well with this. At all. He's having a hard time forgiving himself for what he sees as a moral failing on his part, no matter that you don't care what he did with that vampire bitch. Even if you think it was rape, he doesn't. His mind very possibly broke in ( Read more... )

I've sent out nine personalized queries today.

I guess we'll see.

I'm embarking on the Agent Quest today. I've tweaked the Query Letter of Doom once again (and I'd stop doing that if it didn't keep getting better every time I did), and now I'm going to start personalizing the letter for each agent and shipping the thing out.

WHY am I more nervous about this than I am about sending out actual manuscripts to ( Read more... )

Well. I really think I need to take a step back from the new!Ben&Janni story. Ben is exhausted and has stopped talking to me, which, who can blame him? I've got a couple of other projects that need to go from a back burner to the front one. Plus I need to start personalizing the Query Letter of Doom and sending it out to agents. Which I would ( Read more... )

Congrats to the handsome and talented bradtorgerson for winning third place in the 3rd Quarter Writers of the Future contest. *blows party horn* UTAH REPRESENT, YO ( Read more... )

• flipped a rejected story
  
• gone grocery shopping
  
• edited the last paragraph of the querything again into something even more awesome
  
• posted a thing at Clairvoyant Wank about Harlequin being delisted at RWA over their new vanity imprint
  
• posted a pissy comment at fandomsecrets

So. Why do I feel like I haven't done anything today ( Read more... )

Scrapped the poker metaphor completely. There's no poker in the actual book, and Ben's a soldier, not a gambler. I'm much happier with the query than I was. This feels right...

And thus time for the Weekly Word Count.

Last week's wordcount: 120,500
This week's wordcount: 122,366
Word count for the week: 1,866

*wipes brow* Barely hit the goal.

HOWEVER. I have been hard at work on the Query Letter of Doom, which is sitting at 177 words right now, so, there's that. And that's after massive editing and paring down and ( Read more... )

joins the chess metaphor in the dustbin. At least, the metaphor in the first 'graph. The extended metaphor in the last 'graph stays. Because I say so, dammit.

Now I get the fun, fun, fun job of researching agents ( Read more... )

the Query Letter of Doom continues apace ( Read more... )