Wait... WHAT??!
OMG! ::flails:: I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!
SO! Thanks to a very good friend (gfitz I'm looking at you!)'s tip, I followed a link through facebook to an online publishing house's web announcement over the past weekend. The announcement stated that for that weekend only, they would be accepting 1-page selections of aspiring author's work for critique and editing suggestions. I figured, hey, what do I have to lose?
Now, when I write, my files look like this:
I like to make it feel like it's really a book :3 I'm silly.
So anyway, I had to find a section I felt was worthy and well done enough to send off to these unknown editors. I also had to make the font 12pt Times New Roman and do double-spacing. So what I thought was about a page worth of work turned out to actually be FOUR pages. Hmph. So I had to trim it down, and this is the part I turned up with (don't worry, it's been posted before):
[Submission...]
She’d looked up at him with heavily lidded eyes before reaching up and brushing her lips against his.
And that was all it took.
Carlos - who had experienced a lot of kisses in his day - had never felt a draw like this…not once. He couldn’t stop from kissing her back. He couldn’t stop the groan of desire that escaped his throat when he did. She hesitated, and he only deepened the kiss more, wishing he could kiss her forever. She smelled like cinnamon. She was a thousand times more intoxicating than the whiskey.
She gave a breathy little sigh, her body leaning against his fluidly, and he didn’t care that they were literally surrounded by people; he wouldn’t see any of them again, anyway.
Pulling his lips away from hers, he bent and kissed her behind her ear. She gasped audibly and a tremor shook her. He had nearly pressed her up against the wall already, and the idea made him chuckle at his eagerness. God, he was acting like he was a teenager getting a shot at his first lay. Pulling away he watched her swallow as she looked at him.
Her voice came out raspy and out of breath. “Want to go?”
The offer was more than appealing, but he hadn’t planned on leaving with anyone tonight. His plane was leaving early the next morning, and after this crazy, alcohol-filled weekend, he had meant to catch some winks before the long, cramped, and uncomfortable flight.
But looking down at her wide, bright eyes - seeing her full lips, moist and swollen from his kiss - he’d felt his very thin argument fizzle away, and his fingers compulsively grabbed at her in response.
He’d sleep when he was goddamn dead if it meant he’d be spending the night tonight with her.
So I wrote up a small synopsis (in which I referred to Carlos as "Casanova Carlos" once because of his womanizing ways), and sent it off. Not even TWO HOURS LATER did I receive this response:
[Response...]
"Dear Ms. Noelle,
What a sultry scene! [...] Casanova Carlos..that has a really catchy ring to it! Your page also nabbed my attention. It's well-done, sexy, and a reader feels immersed in the scene.
I highly encourage you to finish this book and submit it to Breathless Press. :)"
....
I was totally NOT expecting something like that!! Like, at all. I'm still in a bit of shock, I think. Is this real lifffeeee? Is this a fantasssssyyyy?
So... I wanted to share. It made me feel really good that they liked it enough to ask for me to submit. n_n Now all I have to do is write it... heh.
SO! Thanks to a very good friend (gfitz I'm looking at you!)'s tip, I followed a link through facebook to an online publishing house's web announcement over the past weekend. The announcement stated that for that weekend only, they would be accepting 1-page selections of aspiring author's work for critique and editing suggestions. I figured, hey, what do I have to lose?
Now, when I write, my files look like this:
I like to make it feel like it's really a book :3 I'm silly.
So anyway, I had to find a section I felt was worthy and well done enough to send off to these unknown editors. I also had to make the font 12pt Times New Roman and do double-spacing. So what I thought was about a page worth of work turned out to actually be FOUR pages. Hmph. So I had to trim it down, and this is the part I turned up with (don't worry, it's been posted before):
[Submission...]
She’d looked up at him with heavily lidded eyes before reaching up and brushing her lips against his.
And that was all it took.
Carlos - who had experienced a lot of kisses in his day - had never felt a draw like this…not once. He couldn’t stop from kissing her back. He couldn’t stop the groan of desire that escaped his throat when he did. She hesitated, and he only deepened the kiss more, wishing he could kiss her forever. She smelled like cinnamon. She was a thousand times more intoxicating than the whiskey.
She gave a breathy little sigh, her body leaning against his fluidly, and he didn’t care that they were literally surrounded by people; he wouldn’t see any of them again, anyway.
Pulling his lips away from hers, he bent and kissed her behind her ear. She gasped audibly and a tremor shook her. He had nearly pressed her up against the wall already, and the idea made him chuckle at his eagerness. God, he was acting like he was a teenager getting a shot at his first lay. Pulling away he watched her swallow as she looked at him.
Her voice came out raspy and out of breath. “Want to go?”
The offer was more than appealing, but he hadn’t planned on leaving with anyone tonight. His plane was leaving early the next morning, and after this crazy, alcohol-filled weekend, he had meant to catch some winks before the long, cramped, and uncomfortable flight.
But looking down at her wide, bright eyes - seeing her full lips, moist and swollen from his kiss - he’d felt his very thin argument fizzle away, and his fingers compulsively grabbed at her in response.
He’d sleep when he was goddamn dead if it meant he’d be spending the night tonight with her.
So I wrote up a small synopsis (in which I referred to Carlos as "Casanova Carlos" once because of his womanizing ways), and sent it off. Not even TWO HOURS LATER did I receive this response:
[Response...]
"Dear Ms. Noelle,
What a sultry scene! [...] Casanova Carlos..that has a really catchy ring to it! Your page also nabbed my attention. It's well-done, sexy, and a reader feels immersed in the scene.
I highly encourage you to finish this book and submit it to Breathless Press. :)"
....
I was totally NOT expecting something like that!! Like, at all. I'm still in a bit of shock, I think. Is this real lifffeeee? Is this a fantasssssyyyy?
So... I wanted to share. It made me feel really good that they liked it enough to ask for me to submit. n_n Now all I have to do is write it... heh.