Update

I haven't been keeping up with this blog quite enough, but there have been various things that have popped up this year, including the unfortunate but necessary amputation of my father's foot (due to an infection and low circulation). But, I think it is time for an update on Pivot and everything else I've been working on.

Pivot is with an agent (a fantastic agent) who has sent it off to publishers. Currently, I am waiting for responses from publishers. This can take a long time, or a very short time. There's no knowing. I am nervous about this, of course. Terribly nervous. But also terribly excited.

After I finished the revisions required on Pivot, I wrote another book. This one is kind of a dark fantasy novel. I finished the first, second, and third draft of that one. It will need more drafts, but I needed time away from it. I actually really really love this book, but I think it has not yet reached its fullest potential.

After writing the dark fantasy novel, I then completed the first draft of Pivot II (yet to be named). There is no knowing, depending on what a publisher may want, whether this second book will remain as it is, but a first and full draft is at least complete.

I am letting Pivot II sit, and I am currently working on a non-paranormal horror novel. It will, I think, be psychological horror and only psychological horror. Apparently that sells better than paranormal horror. This will be my fourth novel.

While all of this has been going on, I've kind of swung like a pendulum between terror and excitement. It's been tough, but it's also something that I have enjoyed.

The best part about this process is that, working with objective readers who have been in the business for a long time, I have been able to take my writing to a whole other level than I realized it could reach. I have surprised myself, and that's a wonderful feeling.

It has been very tough, though, waiting on responses. Waiting to hear back from agents was very very tough. Now the wait on publishers is just as tough.

I remind myself, though, that one way or another these books will be released. Even if all publishers were to reject the revised-Pivot, I could eventually just self-publish it again. That's not what I want. I want it to be picked up by a good publishing house. But, one way or another, it will be released.

I also often times feel for the readers out there. The ones who have to wait an extremely long time for the revised Pivot, the second book in the Pivot-verse, and the third book in the Pivot-verse. The world of book publishing moves very slowly, it seems. Every book you see in Barnes&Noble is at least five years old, from concept to publication. It's insane, and you have to have stamina.

There is really nothing for me to do right now except to keep writing, and so that's what I'm doing. As well as traveling. (I went to the first StokerCon in Las Vegas this year. It was very fun! I even went zip-lining down Fremont Street).

But the wait is tough. Of course, any author you talk to can tell you that. Still, I keep chugging. Just like, I'm sure, you do.