Rick!!! Did you get your blackberry back from the C1A yet?
*I* am having a GREAT DAY!
*looks around* *knocks on wood*
I got my snafu with my event for real job fixed for tomorrow, so I’m not going to get in trouble and it might actually, yanno, go well.
AND, I got another email from lovely editor lady.
Blondie, go ahead with your “I told you so.” God knows I’ve said it to you enough.
It began with: "You've been quite professional, and I find your enthusiasm quite catching."
LONG email. Very nice. She said she didn’t care that I spelled her name wrong. She gave me all of her notes on my ms, saying “I’m going to give you what I’d give an author I had under contract.”
Highlights:
"In mystery, series is queen! Readers love a good series, where they can follow a charming protag from one whodunnit to another, book after book. Ebooks have made this genre even more popular because mystery readers tend to devour books quickly. And when you read a good one, you want to jump into the next one right away.
<MC> makes a great series heroine. You've got an interesting premise with a young reporter in an area of the country ripe with scandal, drama, and backdrop.”
Followed by lots of thoughts and suggestions, basically boils down to, “everyone is too nice, you need to up the stakes and make people root for her.”
Ending with: "Feel free to reach out anytime you have a set of questions for me. I'm happy to answer them. And I'm excited to see what you can do with this!”
Fire, this is good, right?
I know it’s not a yes. But maybe is better than no. So, now I have work to do. And let’s hope I don’t screw it up, m’Kay?
Let’s go, vol. 7!
Happy Friday, y’all!