By my current count, I have six book-length manuscripts and two novella-length manuscripts in need of homes. Yes, three of the books are sequels so they don't really count, but that's still a lot of books that are just languishing on my harddrive.
Yesterday my employer (a college) closed due to the weather--not much snow, but ice on the roads and no chance of it melting until probably tomorrow afternoon--so I spent most of the day getting manuscripts ready to send off. I mailed two, emailed one. I also went over The Dragon Whisperer, my NaNo book that I thought needed so much work. Turns out it holds up just fine at the length of 41,000 words, so I did some minor revisions and found a small publisher that might want it. I emailed the submission this morning.
I feel good now that I've got some possibilities out there. Now I just need to buckle down and finish the Bell-Men rewrites before the world ends in 2012 or whatever, because if I can get the rewrite done correctly and then the edits, I think this one will nab me an agent. Of course, I thought the same thing about The Taste of Magic last year and no one wants it, but, well, that was last year.
15 comments:
Ooh, good luck, Kate.
Thanks! It'll be several months at least before I start to hear back, so I'm going to do my best to forget all about these subs.
Wishing you the best of luck finding everyone a good home.
Thanks!
Sending happy submission thoughts your way! : )
Thanks! I've just sent off a few more queries, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Sending my best vibes. Waiting definately sucks. Bell-men is going to nab all of us an agent. I'm just not sure how.
Bell-Men is going to save the world!
Waiting really sucks, I agree.
I hope we all find agents at least a little while before 2012 so they can at least do a little work for us.
Good luck.
At least we've got a two-year window of opportunity before the end. :)
Marathon effort. Fingers crossed for your submissions.
Thanks! It's a nice change to have some work out there. Now I need to write some more short stories.
The waiting game...still, you have an amazing amount of stuff done. Good luck on getting them all homes!
Thanks! I hope they're winging their ways to new nests even as we speak. :)
I am a lousy editor. I finish a book, do a little proofreading, then that's it. :/ I'm just no good at editing my work.
Especially when I come up with more great ideas that I want to write about. ;)
I hope the submissions all work out!
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