Rejection

Posted by on Nov 30, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Got the first rejection email on Crash Test today. This is one of those events you expect to have happen but don’t really believe once it does. Realistically, it’s going to get rejected despite having a fabulous premise (of course I think so, but so do some other folks I trust who aren’t my mom or my sister) and a fabulous agent. In the Total Fantasy realm, I’m signing a...
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Out the Door–Soonish

Posted by on Oct 19, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Dream Agent’s off to the Florida Writers Conference in Tampa this weekend. We Sunshine State denizens are topping off gas tanks, shopping for non-perishable food, and logging onto NOAA four times a day to check the progress of Hurricane Wilma. She shouldn’t get this far north, but we’re going to be wet for the next several days.In the meantime, DA has been waiting for a couple...
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Authorial Envy

Posted by on Oct 15, 2005 in dish | 1 comment Today my RWA chapter, Central Florida Romance Writers, held a big booksigning. Very cool stuff–authors I know and love–but I’m still on the wrong side of the table. I’m on the signee side, not the signer side. Don’t get me wrong; I love my author friends, and I’m always happy when one of them does something cool, like sign a great contract, get fabulous sales...
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Synopsis Hell II

Posted by on Sep 6, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Dream Agent calls and says things are going well, blah blah, going to be out of the country from X to Y, and by the way, would you send a synopsis for Crash Test so we’ll have one in the office?!!!!I thought since it was finished, I’d dodged the synopsis bullet, but nooooooo. And of course, since I’ve revised the final, I had to revise the synopsis to match. Dang!!Turned out...
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Author’s Nightmare

Posted by on Aug 19, 2005 in dish | 1 comment I wake up from a dream about holding my first published book and breathe a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness it was just a dream! My subconscious is completely weird. For one thing, I’m holding the book and making all kinds of edits to it–needed edits–then realize I’m screwed because this is the real thing, the published book. The cover gives me a co-author. Now, I...
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