And then something happened
Sales of my books have been decent, better than expected for having a limited advertising budget. I can't retire on the monthly proceeds, but I can't complain about the extra income. As most undiscovered writers know, managing the business side AND trying to write at the same time is quite a chore. Having an agent, a publisher, and an editor is the way to go, but the pursuit of those things is lots of work and generally fruitless. Spend your time chasing readers or spend it chasing management or spend it writing? Having to do it all is exhausting.
NaNoWriMo was November and I got drawn into an interesting writing project. So I had to be my own agent, my own publisher, my own editor, and was now writing TWO books. All the writing work plus a deadline combined with the family "work" of hosting Thanksgiving meant lots of late nights (more than usual). Just as my stretched energy began to ebb, an email arrived. December House wanted to publish Hitter, one of my books! Energy restored!
I was assigned an editor, Henri (she lives somewhere in the UK) and we have been working together on a revision for the last few weeks. Their demands are understandable and reasonable, but it's hard to get back into the mindset that wrote that particular book. I had to sit down and read it four times before I got the feel back, before the character took hold in my psyche again.
Hitter was an early work of mine, an experiment to see if I could actually write a book. A mere 44,000 words, the diary of a hitman. In addition to the agreed upon structural changes, I also had to beef it up to 60,000 words or more. It's been five weeks of work and broken sleep, but I'm sitting at 57,000 words today and hope to have a solid 60k+ word draft finished by the end of the week.
Some good things happened to me and I'm having a good day, so I wrote this blog entry to share the news (and procrastinate, I am a writer, after all).
Find me on the December House author page to score extra happy points.
http://www.decemberhouse.net/authors.php
NaNoWriMo was November and I got drawn into an interesting writing project. So I had to be my own agent, my own publisher, my own editor, and was now writing TWO books. All the writing work plus a deadline combined with the family "work" of hosting Thanksgiving meant lots of late nights (more than usual). Just as my stretched energy began to ebb, an email arrived. December House wanted to publish Hitter, one of my books! Energy restored!
I was assigned an editor, Henri (she lives somewhere in the UK) and we have been working together on a revision for the last few weeks. Their demands are understandable and reasonable, but it's hard to get back into the mindset that wrote that particular book. I had to sit down and read it four times before I got the feel back, before the character took hold in my psyche again.
Hitter was an early work of mine, an experiment to see if I could actually write a book. A mere 44,000 words, the diary of a hitman. In addition to the agreed upon structural changes, I also had to beef it up to 60,000 words or more. It's been five weeks of work and broken sleep, but I'm sitting at 57,000 words today and hope to have a solid 60k+ word draft finished by the end of the week.
Some good things happened to me and I'm having a good day, so I wrote this blog entry to share the news (and procrastinate, I am a writer, after all).
Find me on the December House author page to score extra happy points.
http://www.decemberhouse.net/authors.php
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