It's been a while...
As if to make up for a generally sunny winter, the Cape weather has decided to be maudlin and teary. Not that I mind, since it just makes it easier for me to stay home, warm and drink lots of cocoa.
Busy with a truckload of editing at the moment, mainly stuff for Lyrical, tho' I've received my second-round edits for The Namaqualand Book of the Dead which, although it only releases April next year, is good to get out of the way so that I can concentrate on other projects. I think this was one of the last projects that I still wrote out long-hand in my notebooks before transcribing to computer. Overall I'm happy with the writing as it's closer to my current style than Khepera Rising is.
I suspect the next batch of edits that will come in will be for my Siren Bookstrand release, Tainted Love, which releases December. I checked with the publisher, and my contract arrived (always a relief since the SA postal system can be a bit unpredictable). I was entertaining visions of having to find a flatbed scanner in this day and age.
I've been toying with a book three for my Khepera series and had a vague idea based on some of the travel writing I've subbed over the past year involving a ghost town out in the Karoo. I'm glad to say I've found the plot. The story has an ending, but it's open to development and, it being a Jamie story, has a hint of more disasters to follow. It's tentatively entitled Khepera in Shadow and I expect it to be my next project.
I'm holding back from editing The Black Goat mainly because it's under consideration with an agent in NYC. I'm not too phased whether she takes it but I subbed it to her based on a call for submissions. At the moment I'm feeling so blah about literary representation I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I seem to be doing fine without it for now as the smaller presses aren't that bothersome and I'm more than happy with the professional attitude of the two I'm dealing with at present.
My latest WiP, Hell's Music, still needs some work. I woke up to the need for a secondary character to have some of her own say, so I've had to go back to the beginning to insert a few scenes for the reprobate sister. Gods, and she is a little rotter but she has her redeeming qualities and her interference in the plot will be useful.That will be another Therese von Willegen novel, since I'm not releasing my contemporary romance under my own name.
It's all about branding...
And there's not a helluva lot going on in my life worth talking about. In general, I'm being very, very boring, but as they say in Afrikaans: Stille water, diepe grond, onder draai die Duiwel rond.
Busy with a truckload of editing at the moment, mainly stuff for Lyrical, tho' I've received my second-round edits for The Namaqualand Book of the Dead which, although it only releases April next year, is good to get out of the way so that I can concentrate on other projects. I think this was one of the last projects that I still wrote out long-hand in my notebooks before transcribing to computer. Overall I'm happy with the writing as it's closer to my current style than Khepera Rising is.
I suspect the next batch of edits that will come in will be for my Siren Bookstrand release, Tainted Love, which releases December. I checked with the publisher, and my contract arrived (always a relief since the SA postal system can be a bit unpredictable). I was entertaining visions of having to find a flatbed scanner in this day and age.
I've been toying with a book three for my Khepera series and had a vague idea based on some of the travel writing I've subbed over the past year involving a ghost town out in the Karoo. I'm glad to say I've found the plot. The story has an ending, but it's open to development and, it being a Jamie story, has a hint of more disasters to follow. It's tentatively entitled Khepera in Shadow and I expect it to be my next project.
I'm holding back from editing The Black Goat mainly because it's under consideration with an agent in NYC. I'm not too phased whether she takes it but I subbed it to her based on a call for submissions. At the moment I'm feeling so blah about literary representation I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I seem to be doing fine without it for now as the smaller presses aren't that bothersome and I'm more than happy with the professional attitude of the two I'm dealing with at present.
My latest WiP, Hell's Music, still needs some work. I woke up to the need for a secondary character to have some of her own say, so I've had to go back to the beginning to insert a few scenes for the reprobate sister. Gods, and she is a little rotter but she has her redeeming qualities and her interference in the plot will be useful.That will be another Therese von Willegen novel, since I'm not releasing my contemporary romance under my own name.
It's all about branding...
And there's not a helluva lot going on in my life worth talking about. In general, I'm being very, very boring, but as they say in Afrikaans: Stille water, diepe grond, onder draai die Duiwel rond.