Massive interview and Happy Easter
Happy Easter, everyone (or your equivalent feast day/weekend)! I have a big interview for you here, which also includes a giveaway (thanks to Barb and gang, I had fun!).
I've spent the last couple days writing and reading, mostly, and the "birds book" is making good progress. A thousand words at a time means it's adding up, so I'm hoping to finish by end-April (or sooner) and edit by my birthday/first week of May, to be sent out to an agent. I have a short list of agencies (err, three), so hopefully something comes out of it - then again, I've landed two agents already in Germany, I can't imagine the rules of the game having changed so much in the meantime.
Feedback on the novel overall is very encouraging - though my friends would say so, of course - and one of them compared it to Skybound in terms of intensity. Which is brilliant news and very flattering. I am writing this book with blood, and I still so often feel completely inadequate of the big themes and big issues I'm tearing open. I think it's the awe of the brain surgeon, looking at something way too complex that we still barely understand after he's sawed the skull open. If I manage to write on the level of Skybound maybe once a year or every two years, I'll be a lucky, damned grateful author.
At the moment, I'm enjoying being productive. Yesterday was pretty good with 14k written between LA Witt and myself on our shared contemporary (undercover cops being all sexy). I think we'll be bringing the guys home pretty soon. That's the difference between me writing alone (maybe 2k per day, if I work hard) and co-writing (5-7k each). One of them is hard, lonely work, the other fun. Both are absolutely vital to keep my mental balance and not bash my head too hard against the keyboard at times. If we're lucky, we might even wrap it up mostly in the next week or two, which gives me another novel for the end of the year or early next year.
Lying with Scorpions is germinating (don't tell Rachel), and might be a May project rather than an April project. It's amusing to see the birds books, a literary, well-behaved book, shoulder aside a muscular gritty fantasy novel, but I have no objections as long as the words keep coming.
And here's a youtube video I found utterly captivating, which suits my WWII novel very very well.
I've spent the last couple days writing and reading, mostly, and the "birds book" is making good progress. A thousand words at a time means it's adding up, so I'm hoping to finish by end-April (or sooner) and edit by my birthday/first week of May, to be sent out to an agent. I have a short list of agencies (err, three), so hopefully something comes out of it - then again, I've landed two agents already in Germany, I can't imagine the rules of the game having changed so much in the meantime.
Feedback on the novel overall is very encouraging - though my friends would say so, of course - and one of them compared it to Skybound in terms of intensity. Which is brilliant news and very flattering. I am writing this book with blood, and I still so often feel completely inadequate of the big themes and big issues I'm tearing open. I think it's the awe of the brain surgeon, looking at something way too complex that we still barely understand after he's sawed the skull open. If I manage to write on the level of Skybound maybe once a year or every two years, I'll be a lucky, damned grateful author.
At the moment, I'm enjoying being productive. Yesterday was pretty good with 14k written between LA Witt and myself on our shared contemporary (undercover cops being all sexy). I think we'll be bringing the guys home pretty soon. That's the difference between me writing alone (maybe 2k per day, if I work hard) and co-writing (5-7k each). One of them is hard, lonely work, the other fun. Both are absolutely vital to keep my mental balance and not bash my head too hard against the keyboard at times. If we're lucky, we might even wrap it up mostly in the next week or two, which gives me another novel for the end of the year or early next year.
Lying with Scorpions is germinating (don't tell Rachel), and might be a May project rather than an April project. It's amusing to see the birds books, a literary, well-behaved book, shoulder aside a muscular gritty fantasy novel, but I have no objections as long as the words keep coming.
And here's a youtube video I found utterly captivating, which suits my WWII novel very very well.
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