This sounds dumb, I am getting a little scared...

[ccarver30]

I am querying and so far getting some responses for a few pages etc. While it is very premature, I am afraid that this- the thing I have wanted for SO long- COULD actually happen. I won't know what to do with myself.

[wannawrite]

When I first sold, I ran around in tight little circles waving my hands in the air for about an hour.

Savor it. (isn't this fun?)

[ccarver30]

I think I will cry my face off.

Ha ha, our sigs both say to cross fingers. ;)
BTW, I like your titles. :)

[wannawrite]

Thanks! :) Blood Moon will prob be changed, because there are about a zillion Blood Moon's out there, but so far, nobody has changed a title on my, yet.

*pauses to consider*

Wouldn't that be weird? Calling your work a different name? I mean, Blood Moon has been Blood Moon for five years. Huh. Interesting.

[Cassiopeia]

Go with it. Enjoy it. While you can because selling your book is ONLY the beginning. :D

Now you can be REALLY scared. ;)

[ccarver30]

Go with it. Enjoy it. While you can because selling your book is ONLY the beginning. :D

Now you can be REALLY scared. ;)

Ha ha! ;)
I love your s/n. I love atronomy and it makes me smile! :D

[ccarver30]

Thanks! :) Blood Moon will prob be changed, because there are about a zillion Blood Moon's out there, but so far, nobody has changed a title on my, yet.

*pauses to consider*

Wouldn't that be weird? Calling your work a different name? I mean, Blood Moon has been Blood Moon for five years. Huh. Interesting.

Quite.
I do not want Stone and Glass to be changed to "Seducing the Earl" or something. :(

[Cassiopeia]

Ha ha! ;)
I love your s/n. I love atronomy and it makes me smile! :DYes, I love stargazing. Once I sell my house and get settled again, I'm going to buy another telescope. I lost mine in the divorce years ago. There's nothing like gazing at them.

[Sean D. Schaffer]

I am querying and so far getting some responses for a few pages etc. While it is very premature, I am afraid that this- the thing I have wanted for SO long- COULD actually happen. I won't know what to do with myself.


Congratulations. :) You're quite a few steps closer to legitimate publication than I am. People are actually interested; that's good.

Keep up the good work! I hope to find out that you've been published before long. :)

[jodiodi]

Congratulations.

[bettielee]

When I first sold, I ran around in tight little circles waving my hands in the air for about an hour.

Savor it. (isn't this fun?)

I watched. It was fun.

[colealpaugh]

Yes, I love stargazing. Once I sell my house and get settled again, I'm going to buy another telescope. I lost mine in the divorce years ago. There's nothing like gazing at them.

And I won the telescope but lost the house. You're better off, Cassiopeia...

Just sayin'.

[Tasmin21]

I am querying and so far getting some responses for a few pages etc. While it is very premature, I am afraid that this- the thing I have wanted for SO long- COULD actually happen. I won't know what to do with myself.

It occurred to me, when I started getting requests for pages instead of rejections, that I had never prepared myself to succeed. I was all ready for the rejections! Bring 'em on, baby! But the requests threw me for a loop. ;)

Good luck!

[Phaeal]

I have this really rare disorder. I have zero fear of success and riches. Really. I've always been this way. I could have been a child superstar and come out absolutely fine.

Bring it on, world!

;)

[scarletpeaches]

I am querying and so far getting some responses for a few pages etc. While it is very premature, I am afraid that this- the thing I have wanted for SO long- COULD actually happen. I won't know what to do with myself.

SO with you on that. Sometimes I think we're more afraid of success than failure.

[CaroGirl]

Is it fear of success or just another version of fear of failure? I mean, don't we think, what if I get everything I want and I fuck it all up, or what if it turns out not be what I want in the end? I don't think anyone's afraid that with success they'll get everything they want and be deliriously happy.

[ccarver30]

What if I get published and people hate it? All I want is for people to be enamored with my characters like I am.

Glad I am not alone. :)

[scarletpeaches]

If you're published and people hate it...well, so what? You'll still be published!

I know there are big names out there that people hate (you know who I mean). But you'll never be like them.

Thank god.

As regards the quality of their writing, I mean. ;) As long as you're conscientious you can be published AND good.

[Salis]

Dunno about the "you'll never be hated line", writing is one of those things where it's guaranteed that there will always be someone (and they aren't necessarily wrong) who thinks your writing sucks balls.

The more successful you are, the more people there are like this. As the saying goes, you can't please everyone.