Category: SUSPENSE
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And Another One Bites the Dust
The proposal for a possible next suspense novel went out to my agent about ten seconds ago. Took longer than I thought possible to finish the revision, but on the up side, I like it a lot, and I’d love to write the book. It deals with a different level of relationships than the previous…
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Finished the First Draft of the Proposal
2700 words, give or take a few. It has a good story; it is, I suspect, short on romance. I’ll go over it and see what I can do to beef up those elements. Argh. Stuff you don’t notice while you’re doing the first draft. Maybe I could do it as straight suspense ….. Hah.
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Got It In One
I needed a guy car. I’m still doing the proposal, though I’m into the last few hundred words. I figured Mustang, but I thought maybe there was a better guy car out there. So I tossed the words “guy car” into search, and got this page. Guy and Chick Cars. The number one guy car?…
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Off Hours
I’ve been up since 3 AM. At the moment, I’m writing on the proposal for Robin (and Claire), after that, I’ll work on the e-book version of HtCB, then I’ll move on to Cady II, and after that, see if I can wrap up the crit I’m currently working on. My work hours are all…
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Didn’t Break EVERYthing
I switched over to WordPress 2.01 this morning while I was on the phone with my son. (If it’s 4:30 am his time, he remembers to call.) The site seems to be working correctly, although the RSS feed on the front page of the site is now carrying comments instead of articles. I’m going to…
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Ah … Weekends
I’ve actually been observing weekends so far this year, forcing myself to turn off the office computer on Friday when I wrap and and not permitting myself to turn it back on until Monday morning. (I still check the customer-support e-mail account once a day over the weekend, but I do that from the family…
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The Writing Ducks Go Marching
Got things organized. Know what I’ll be doing for the next couple of weeks. First, I’ll be finishing up the wire-bound paper version of Create A Character Clinic. I have to correct the typos readers have spotted (the corrections will go into the .pdf version, too), and do back cover artwork. Second, I’ll be editing…
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Done, Done with I SEE YOU
I’ve been slogging the manuscript revision for days. Tonight, just a few minutes ago, I finished the last of the revision type-in and sent it out to my editor. Tomorrow, I’ll send the tabbed hand-edited copy to her overnight. Done, done, done. I heard from Anna Genoese on HAWKSPAR just today. She really liked it.…
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Bulgarian Rights
Got the neatest news today. I sold (or, rather, Penguin Putnam sold) Bulgarian translation rights to MIDNIGHT RAIN; the book should be available in Bulgaria and wherever else the purchasing publisher distributes sometime this month. Bulgarian rights. So cool.
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Done, DONE, Done, DONE!
Create A Character Clinic is done. Came in at just over 30,000 words, is on its way in beta version to my readers, and I am HAPPY. And done for at least a few days. Heard from Claire this morning that she loved I SEE YOU, that the revisions are small and few, and that…