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Crazy Times…

10 Tuesday Sep 2019

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I did hear back from the publisher thanking me for my submission and letting me know it could be a couple of weeks before she can get back to me.  That can still be within my timeline.  I also followed up with a message letting her know that West Montrose was also one of the filming locations for IT and IT2!  Was that a good idea?

Anyway, I’m on a brief break at work… officially it’s lunch time… 12:30-1.  I’m trying to figure out what they’re doing outside since a truck pulled into the parking lot with the temporary construction fencing and I thought they were done back there!  Does that mean I will have to walk all the way around the building starting tonight, again?

I have an urge to get back to writing something new.  I haven’t decided what yet.  I had started a new project at the end of June but with everything that has happened, I don’t ever see myself finishing that.  It was called Leap of Faith and it was supposed to be about someone who was significantly younger than her partner who was actually supposed to die in a WWII bombing and come back years later bringing their ages much closer together.  There was the offer of a miracle but it would require FAITH… an incredible amount of FAITH that the miracle would not fail which would sever their relationship forever.

Since you can guess what that was loosely based on I don’t know if I can see myself finishing it anytime in the near future.  Not with everything that has happened.  Not with the stroke bringing that to an unfortunate close.  But there is that something new that is keeping me busy and, in all honestly, making me incredibly happy!  I don’t even feel as annoyed about work as I used to… go figure.

I am hopping back into the job search wagon.  Whether full time or part time to help fill the teaching income loss gap it doesn’t matter at this point… but I’m looking to fill in the gaps.  Doesn’t even have to be nursing… just consistent since so much of what I have on my plate is not consistent at all!  If this novel sells that will be quite sufficient as well so that could just as easily be the answer as a job.

I think I’m going to go make myself a tea and I have a couple of things to do this afternoon yet.

Out of the Woodwork!

09 Monday Sep 2019

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As you know, I was incredibly disappointed with the Pitch Day on Twitter on Thursday.  I don’t think I masked my disappointment well at all.  I had three likes which all turned out to be agents.  Had I wanted an agent, I would have searched for one, in Canada, 20 years ago.

Anyway, this morning I wake to a Tweeted reply from someone who had been retweeting and making recommendations to her publisher that her publisher did, in fact, like my pitch and wants to see a synopsis and three chapters.  She sent the email address privately.

I completed my synopsis and put it together and emailed it but, at the same time, I don’t know how to feel.  If this had happened on Thursday I would have been ecstatic.  Maybe it’s because I was sick on the weekend and I’m still tired. I can’t say.  But, I’m not going to turn down the chance either!

What I want most is for my books to sell.  What I want most is to finally be able to live off my writing comfortably.  I know every writer wants that but it’s a tough profession because you need to push the right buttons at the right time and get the readers that you need and want right from the start.  And, if a couple of movie rights come along with that, I’m game!

So, I have time right now.  Getting proof copies doesn’t mean it’s in print.  It currently means it’s on hold and I hit the right button at the right moment when I’m ready and things are settled.  It won’t take very long at this point.

Getting Closer…

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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to many things!  The first one on my list is the New Year.  Yes, we have to have Christmas first but then there is that week in between where we can start to set our resolutions… 2 years ago I vowed to lose 20 lbs and I lost 30 that year.  Willpower… what a great word!

I think that applies to all of us writers as well, no matter what stage we’re at.  You have to have the willpower to succeed, especially in today’s markets.  In 2006 when that British publisher had found me and offered to publish my books, I was ecstatic!!  I thought I was going to make it big, HUGE!!  They talked about the Frankfurt Book Fair, the whole nine yards… that’s where it ended.  Guess they ran out of money before anything else could happen.  Bookstores here wouldn’t order the books because it was too costly to ship them from Britain.  Who lost out?  I did.  So I returned to the self-publishing scene and have been there ever since.  It hasn’t been that long that self-publishing, or rather Indie publishing has grown so drastically so “way back then” I didn’t know what I was doing!  Now I’m a bit more knowledgeable thanks, in great part, to all of the great articles Writer’s Digest and The Writer put out as well as Hope Clark in her Funds for Writers newsletters.  To you all, I salute you!

My best advice is to do what is right for you!!  When it comes to your writing, you’re the captain of the ship.  If self-publishing feels right to you, then do it, the same applies if sending out queries to traditional publishers feels right.

Make it your New Year’s Resolution to do what feels right where your writing is concerned!

Mine is still forming, but it has something to do with getting out there and actually making that second income back from my writing!  Why can’t I spend ten hours a week doing what I love rather than feeling like I’m wasting my time doing something else?

Of course I want to publish my new book, and that will get done so I don’t think of that as a Resolution.

So what will yours be?

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