Projects Done and Started

After a long holiday, I came back to work a bit frustrated that I hadn't met my goals of rewriting/proofing all four projects, but with a bit more time and several more weekends, I met my goal. Sent out the memoir about Izzy, immediately got feedback and thought that my structure was wrong with that one. I'm waiting for one more agent (who has the full manuscript), and depending on what she says, I think that one will be rewritten into more of a narrative format.

I sent Jack's Truck out to several independent publishers, and one of them emailed right after the first of the year to send the digital copy (they had originally wanted a paper version, which I thought was a bit old-fashioned but sent it anyway). Still waiting to hear from all of them.

Surprisingly, I heard from an agent about JT just last week, and she wanted to see the whole ms., which was exciting because I thought I had heard from everyone. Fingers crossed that she likes it!

Analyzing the Prescotts is done, but I'm waiting to get answers back from these agents before sending it out. If either of them responds positively about my other work, perhaps they'll like ATP too.

Mrs. G's Adventures in Dating is also waiting . . .

And while I'm waiting, I took five days off from work to start my new novel, the follow up story after Jack's Truck. I've been waiting years to start this novel, have done a lot of research in Mississippi on the civil rights movement there, and I was ready to go. I'm two chapters into it, have a full outline done, and am liking where it's going. It's keeping me busy while I wait (which I'm not good at doing).

And I'm blogging, doing theater reviews, and taking care of my Facebook group of historical writers. Keeping extremely busy!

Peace to all of you.