The Tenth Circle

Hi Tracy!

Welcome, Tacy. Yep, it can get intense in here. But it's a good kind of intense.

Tri

Hi Tracy!

Hi everybody!

Squeee, Lily!

YAY Lily!!!!!! So happy for you! Are you hyperventilating?

Congrats Lily! That's so exciting.

Good for you, Lily. Long time coming. Everything's taking shape and moving right along for you. You deeeeeeeserve it!

Tri

Yay LILY!

I know that numb feeling. That's mostly how I've reacted to the process, interspersed with bouts of panic and mortification. But getting my cover was a total highlight, as were the blurbs. Not the anticipation of the blurbs (cue "mortification") but the blurbs that came in. I'm finally feeling the acceptance/happy part, but boy it's taken me a while to get here. I think I'm like Sally Fields ("You like me! You really like me!").

Can't wait to see what sort of cover they come up with for you! You know I'm a mystery nut, right?

And that's just it, too. Even when positive reality sets in, we deny it since we're so used to lows and rejection. It's gonna take a whole case of Bandaids for me to erase the hurt after these past five years. Then when the big moment comes, I'm not sure I'll believe it. Either that, or I'll meet it with suspicion, or a "meh" attitude.

Tri

I keep telling my hubby "I was not prepared to succeed!"

Heh, my reaction to getting The Call was, "Oh. Wow. Cool. Thanks. Um."

Lily, I'd hug you back but I think that requires an advanced option, so you'll just have to imagine it!

For fellow mystery lovers and writers, someone recommended I see how Laurie King does PR. She's counting down to the release of her latest book in April and I've been following her site just to see what she does. http://www.laurierking.com/

Yay, Lily!!!!

Welcome, Tracy, and congratulations, Lily! IT'S HAPPENING!

Just got up the gumption to turn to my page proofs and let me tell you...making a photocopy of the copyedits I corrected before sending back to the publisher was the best thing I ever did. I have already spotted several inconsistencies and (hopefully) made short work of them...now I can only pray that the production editor sees and makes every change.

Busy day for my real and virtual inbox! Got my final contract and my welcome gift from my publisher! AWESOME books. Seeing all the "NYT bestseller" marks on their covers made feel faint. Seriously insecure now!

I predict big things for your book, HC. I believe I said that to you already, but just to make sure, I'm saying it for the public record, so I can go, "I told you so!" when I turn out to be right!

Sent our more queries here on my short story. Editing my novella and working fast to finish my novel Congrats to all those here that have made it and to the rest like me who have yet too, keep on trudging

Awwwww, thank Lisa! now if I can only finish editing it...

Good luck, Brainstorm!