Sale!
Received an email with notice that I sold my PCID universe story "A Touch of Ginger" to the specfic antho THE LADIES OF TRADETOWN, coming out in 2011 from Norilana Books. This is cool on a number of levels -- I get to work with the delightful editor Lee Martindale, I share a TOC with some rocking writers (crazywritergirl, Helen McCarthy and Tracy S. Morris, among others), and this is my first sale of an SF/police procedural story.
I know this may sound a little stupid, but that last part was worrying me. I've been a professional writer since 1995 so I know how to put a salable story together, my dad was a cop so I was raised in cop culture, I've been READING police procedurals all my life, and I've been studying reference books on forensics, police procedure, criminal behavior et al ever since my epiphany at McCarren, so in theory it should have worked. Theory, however, can easily be blown apart by a single test, and I still wasn't sure if everything I had was going to gel together in a story.
Apparently it does. Which will make finishing MURDER AT THE SANDS OF TIME less stressful (once I finish editing A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER and WHITE KNIGHT, QUEEN ALICE, of course).
Plus it's Friday, it's payday, and since I went to sleep at 9:00 PM last night and woke up this morning at 5:00 AM and thus got into work at a ridiculously early hour, I can go home at 4:30 PM. So far, so good.
I know this may sound a little stupid, but that last part was worrying me. I've been a professional writer since 1995 so I know how to put a salable story together, my dad was a cop so I was raised in cop culture, I've been READING police procedurals all my life, and I've been studying reference books on forensics, police procedure, criminal behavior et al ever since my epiphany at McCarren, so in theory it should have worked. Theory, however, can easily be blown apart by a single test, and I still wasn't sure if everything I had was going to gel together in a story.
Apparently it does. Which will make finishing MURDER AT THE SANDS OF TIME less stressful (once I finish editing A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER and WHITE KNIGHT, QUEEN ALICE, of course).
Plus it's Friday, it's payday, and since I went to sleep at 9:00 PM last night and woke up this morning at 5:00 AM and thus got into work at a ridiculously early hour, I can go home at 4:30 PM. So far, so good.