It's been that kind of year
We're working on blog posts to celebrate the release of Love Letters Anthology Volume 1: Obyeing Desire (releasing April 8th!) and I had to stop and think about how much we've put into this project in the last year.
It was January when Ginny Glass first thought up the project, closer to March when we all had first drafts of this volume done, June when the submission went out and July when Carina Press offered us a contract. It feels like a lifetime ago.
To be more exact, that was five books ago. Since then, we've turned in Volumes 2-5 and Volume 6 will be in our super-editor's hands on Monday. Each of us put out 6 individual and 1 co-written stories (adding up to 26) for these books. I know some people write super fast and have a very high output, but for me, that's a lot over the course of a year. In that time I also managed to have three other books contracted (Power Play, Dubai Nights, and Mr. Fix It). There's also been the editing. We've done at least three rounds of edits for each of these books so far, with one last book to get through the process.
For me, there's been a lot of other writing as well. If you follow me on Twitter, you're probably aware that I am painfully close to finishing my doctoral degree. The final version of my dissertation is due on the same day as Volume 6 (I am so good at planning my deadlines, no?). I defend shortly after and then that's it. I sometime have to keep myself from thinking about my dissertation in terms of word count. "It's only 40,000 words," I often think. Except there is no word limit (upper or lower).
It's been a wild year with a lot of ups and downs, a lot of deadlines, and more late nights and early mornings than I can count. It feels like a lot of things are ending in the next month, but I'm looking foward to seeing where they go next!
It was January when Ginny Glass first thought up the project, closer to March when we all had first drafts of this volume done, June when the submission went out and July when Carina Press offered us a contract. It feels like a lifetime ago.
To be more exact, that was five books ago. Since then, we've turned in Volumes 2-5 and Volume 6 will be in our super-editor's hands on Monday. Each of us put out 6 individual and 1 co-written stories (adding up to 26) for these books. I know some people write super fast and have a very high output, but for me, that's a lot over the course of a year. In that time I also managed to have three other books contracted (Power Play, Dubai Nights, and Mr. Fix It). There's also been the editing. We've done at least three rounds of edits for each of these books so far, with one last book to get through the process.
For me, there's been a lot of other writing as well. If you follow me on Twitter, you're probably aware that I am painfully close to finishing my doctoral degree. The final version of my dissertation is due on the same day as Volume 6 (I am so good at planning my deadlines, no?). I defend shortly after and then that's it. I sometime have to keep myself from thinking about my dissertation in terms of word count. "It's only 40,000 words," I often think. Except there is no word limit (upper or lower).
It's been a wild year with a lot of ups and downs, a lot of deadlines, and more late nights and early mornings than I can count. It feels like a lot of things are ending in the next month, but I'm looking foward to seeing where they go next!
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