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Back in November I wrote Project 10×10 and submitted it to the publishers. It was the most difficult writing project I had ever undertaken because it meant a lot to me for various reasons which I’ll get to in a moment.

Yesterday they revealed the top 25 entries, and more importantly, the top 5 semi-finalists. ( Read more... )

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2012 was a year of being proactive. I wrote, I traveled, I saw people I’ve never met in person, or haven’t seen in years.

2013 was the year of waiting.
Sitting around, waiting for things to happen.
For editors and publishers to get back to me, for inevitable tragedy.

Sadly we lost two close family members this ( Read more... )

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This is going to be a tiny post, mostly for my own nostalgia. I like to keep records of landmarks.

This particular landmark? Yesterday after having several people look it over, I submitted Project 10X10. Then this morning I figured out something I could have added. Because isn’t that always the way?

Now, as usual ( Read more... )

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When I was a young, lower-case Q, I told myself “If I ever make a thing, I’m not going to have a romance in it. Everything has an obligated romantic interest! Not me! I’m going to buck the trend!”

I started Elven Lacryment and a one-sided romance started to pop up, and…I’m running with it.

Also I wrote Project C ( Read more... )

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I’m not big on things like NaNoWriMo and I almost never take part in Blog Hops. But last night I took part in #PitchMAS on Twitter and it was fun and mildly exciting.

I focused mainly on NEXT TO GODLINESS and a bit on BLOOD IN THE WATER. Just for the heck of it I tossed out one pitch for PROJECT C. Sadly I didn’t ( Read more... )

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I have a plan for unleashing NEXT TO GODLINESS upon the world.

In October 2012 I submitted NEXT TO GODLINESS to the Harper Voyager Open Submission Call. I also submitted PROJECT C. Harper Voyager rejected one of the submissions but did not clarify which one. I choose to believe they rejected PROJECT C and that ( Read more... )

So, a few days after I wrote this post about continuing little side-stories for NEXT TO GODLINESS, I find out that Harper Voyager is accepting un-agented manuscripts.

Because of course it was.

The bad part was that NEXT TO GODLINESS fell 4,000 words short of the minimum word count. Yeah, I had that sub-plot but there was no way I would be able to ( Read more... )

I only understand the basics of what’s going on about the whole Amazon pulling Macmillan books thing. I know it’s wrong and I know that Amazon is being a bully.

So, in retaliation, I’ve removed my Amazon Associate links from my blog and I will be removing them from my webcomics as well.

If this, plus Amazonfail of a few months ago bother you, and ( Read more... )

So, as anyone who cares about the publishing world knows by now, Black Matrix’s pay rates are 1/5th of a cent per word. ONE FIFTH of one cent. Per word.

And some people are ok with this.

Seriously, people? Seriously?! Are you so desperate to get published that any little acknowledgement is good enough for you? That one word you crafted, let’s say ( Read more... )

Some of you, probably know that for the last month I’ve been taking a course on how to get published. It helps the students write query letters, CVs, synopsis and so forth. I’m enjoying it immensely and I want more.

I like that I like school and learning. I was crap at it back in, y’know, school. Mostly because I didn’t care. It didn’t interest me ( Read more... )