Hi Zan! Hi Saoirse!
I'm going to try to keep up better this month.
But I have a raft of family stuff kicking up right now, so I might fail. Please know, though, that I'm always reading and you guys keep me going.
ANYway. I snuck under the wire and shipped
Arkhangelsk to my betas at the end of April. (We'll just ignore the part where I was originally going to do it on March 1.) I've of course been completely second-guessing myself since, but I do think it's much improved from the previous iteration.
I also got my newsletter out. Four in a row on time! Which seems weird for me. And I got some revisions done on a short story I really like, only I'm chicken to put it up in SYW. (I'm also not sure what genre it is. It's a romance with a paranormal element, except the paranormal element isn't one of the romantic participants. So I'm not sure if it's paranormal romance or just spec fic. Or just romance. So if I can't figure out which SYW forum it belongs in, I don't have to share it, right??)
So, on deck for May, we have:
1) Draft a new query letter and get it up in QLH. I've been working on this for a couple of days. Have I mentioned I
hate writing query letters?
2) Update the synopsis. I wrote a synopsis for this book a year ago, and one or two things have changed.
3) Okay, okay, I should probably put the first chapter up in SYW since I had the old first chapter up there and it's changed a lot and I'm a bit concerned about a couple of things and I have to make progress on this.
4) Let's see if I can hit five in a row on the newsletter, shall we? I could always put my short story there.
Go, team!