Spring 2004.
This New Year is starting slow. I've made one submission. Three hundred words and a two month wait. There's the noggin at work. Blackberry Cordial (mainstream fiction) is out the door as of March 8th. Finally. It sat on my desk, in the envelope, cover letter attached SASE envelope. And it sat, sat, sat. Something bothered me about it although its been a four month project.
Finally I sorted it out--three little words. Took them out and into the mailbox it went, to the east coast and Pubs Row.
Amazon Protea is in final rewrite, and changed considerably from the first hormonal draft. Right now its under a final CRITical eye, and I've slated five markets for it.
Loracle's Wheel is cooking. Book Two is a coherent complete draft.
Book Three, was a bugger. But am on chapter 10 of revised draft.
Now Book one is in for one more rewrite and I'm in the snipping state of mind. Edits times the nth degree and my target date for submission is Shriven 2004.
Thanks again, ((because I can't thank enoug)) everyone who's read it. I'm pleased I converted a few to speculative fiction and am wild to be breaking new grounds in the fantasy genre. At this rate I will have the most read, unpublished trilogy on the globe.
A very dear reader of mine said she didn't know that fantasy could be so adult and insightful and that meant a lot to me. There's no reason that spec fic can't be literate.
The last work I edited ended up being the most satisfactory. The writer was very enthused with my changes. (NO you can't have him--he's mine.) With that done, I'm taking a break from editing, and ditto the free lancing for a bit too. Except for my herbal ladies, I'm still writing spells.
I can't put anything on the boards. I got all the mileage out my previously published without looking crass and everything else is under production or subbed.
So what are you doing?
