The Next Circle of Hell
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*snerk* Which is preceded by long nights of edits (deadline: mid-April) mixed with the Day Job. Translation: I'll need 5 pounds of pancake (stage) makeup for that photo shoot to change this:
into this:
. Or perhaps a visit from her: 
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How cool Callalilly! I read the pancake make-up line and couldn't stop myself from Homer Simpsoning "mmmmm..... Pancake. *drools*"
Came home to find two e-mails from The Editor with cover quotes for my book! *glee!* Don't know if I can post them publicly yet, but I'm all kinds of giddy. No one hates me yet!
Finished my rewrite for my agent end of last year. Supposed to go into submission any time now. It is hard now to have "nothing" to do( except stare at my WIP) or perhaps, I should enjoy this lull before the next wave of anxiety takes hold( after I go into submission).
Guess, I am just looking for some hand-holding and the companionship of those in the same boat...
Anyone who is just about to go on submission out there, please speak up.
Goodluck to those of you already waiting to hear back from editors. The beginning of a brand new decade is ripe with possibilities, right?
Guess, I am just looking for some hand-holding and the companionship of those in the same boat...
Anyone who is just about to go on submission out there, please speak up.
Goodluck to those of you already waiting to hear back from editors. The beginning of a brand new decade is ripe with possibilities, right?
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Apparently the editorial, marketing, production depts get together and talk about the book, edits, marketing(?) and such. Ya got me--I'm a noob at this part too.
Let's all just live vicariously thru Lily and Tas!
(it's a hell of a lot better than reality, isn't it?)
(it's a hell of a lot better than reality, isn't it?)
Wow Tas, congrats! The quotes are awesome and the people who made them are (to say the least) impressive!
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A "vision meeting"?! Kewl! I don't know if my book had one of those or not.
I'm...very tired.
I'm...very tired.
Cool Tas!!!
I'll be happy with a
"it's good" -unknown never heard of before author who no one knows.
I'll be happy with a
"it's good" -unknown never heard of before author who no one knows.
WOW.
I just got a welcome letter from my editor! they're having a "vision" meeting for my book tomorrow!
Then she asked me how I felt about revisions, and I repeated my usual: I have coffee and an X-acto knife. Bring it.
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Wooooohoooooo!!!
Yay!
Good luck!!!
Thank you, HappyCamper. How long did it take to sell your book iow how long where you in the circle of hell?
Shinta: We went on sub mid-November (and run right smack into the Thanksgiving holidays. Hehe.) and the book sold on Dec 23.
Welcome, Shinta. I've been on sub 10 weeks. I got one rejection at week 3 or 4, one at week 6 or 7, and then no news from the rest of the crew. The holidays, economic torpor, utter forgettability of proffered manuscript -- who knows the reasons. I'm figuring some news trickles in over the next several weeks. Several editors said they were reading it before the holidays, so unless that's a check-in-the-mail kind of thing, they have to have formed some opinion by now.
What kind of stuff do you write?
What kind of stuff do you write?
I managed to navigate my way to the blurbs, Tas. They are indeed fantastic!
Great that your book moved so fast, Happycamper. At least, it's good to know that such things CAN happen. Great job!
Great that your book moved so fast, Happycamper. At least, it's good to know that such things CAN happen. Great job!
Thanks Shinta! (But it did seem MUCH LOOOOOOONGER during the times I was obsessively refreshing my inbox... )
Kellion: I'm sure great news is on its way!
)Kellion: I'm sure great news is on its way!
Two rejections must be nothing at all in this crazy world of publications. So, don't let that worry you. Many more to go and all you need is one editor to fall in love with your work. I don't think this silence means that those others editors have read your work but forgot to contact your agent. I'd bet that they haven't gotten to it despite their best intentions.
I write mainsteam/ literary fiction. And you?
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