Tuesday, July 22, 2003 So, for awhile I've been alluding to good news, but never spilling it. Well, I have no good reason to do so now, except the realzation that I should share all these writing things, and be honest and not all, "But what if I fail and then everyone's like, thanks for nothing." I guess I didn't want to be ashamed, come on line and say, "Well, got my rejection slips today." Silly girl. It's not like I've not been rejected before. I've been rejected more times than a pimp at a nun convention. Anyway, In April I got my first letter from a big publisher, saying that they liked my book idea and were curious to see how I worked things out, so could I send the full manuscript? And, by the way, your other book sounds good to, would you send it? It might not be quite right, but we're willing to look at it. So, of course, I sent Blue Moon, the book I queried them for, right off. Balancing Act was already going under re-writes, and so I decided to continue them, for several reasons. One, a friend said it needed expanding. Now, I'll admit (and I sort of hope he never reads this) that I was a little not happy...I guess I wanted him to think I was abrillant writer, and when he said that this book I spent ages working on and was so thrilled to have done needed work, I was sort of crestfallen. Also, I'd been hearing all over that first books always suck. And last, most important, I realized Pilgrims of the Night took place a few months before Balancing Act, and Sevrin and Andromeda, who I act like they've just met in BA, actually end up having an adventure together in Pilgrims. So, I rolled the dice, and I rewrote. And re-wrote. And finally, I finished it last night, spent hours printing it out, and sent it this morning. There's part of me that is very zen, if it was meant to sell, it'll sell. There's a small evil part that keeps saying, what if you pi**ed this oportunity away? I'm relived to report that I did not recieve a rejection letter for Blue Moon in the mail today. I was actually expecting that. I figured if they don't like Blue Moon, which is (mostly) right up their alley, then they'll hate Balancing Act. So, getting past the mail without that happening makes me happy. Of course, there's always tomorrow. I felt, a ways back, that something would happen for me in April. Then I got the letter. I've felt much the same about July...I wonder if I'll hear anything, or if I've just convinced myself? I'm really praying for this...even though they're a big publisher, the imprint, I guess it's called, is brand new. So they're actually *looking* for people. That's got to be good, right? I feel so nervous. I wish I could make myself forget the whole thing, you know. But I can't. I feel like this is it, if they don't take it, my writing life is over...that's so dumb, it's not the end, but I think because they asked for both books it's given me too much hope/despair. I mean, if they only have one book and they reject it, that's ok, but if they read both books and reject them both, then I must be a crappy writer, right? Of course, if this was a writer posting to Fiction Addiction I'd be like, "Don't be silly, Hon, just because, yadda yadda..." you know? And I know that if they reject me there's always another book, another publisher, another possability...even self publishing, if I manage to scrape up the money. But I still feel like I'm standing on the beach, watching my ships burn and crumble into the sea. Weird, isn't it? The Moral of the story: If you've written more than one book, try and slip in a line about one of them or two of them in your query letter. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 7:42 PM 0 comments

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