I resolve to resolve! Saturday, December 06, 2003 Well, it's been longer than I meant between posts, but now I'm trying to get everything done before Christmas week...and, well, the end of the year. My end total was 30,245...not bad, but it showed me that I really don't dedicate the time that I should to my writing. I should have made the 50,000 easy. I've made a lot of realizations. One, that if I wrote more and published my books through small press, I'd make as much in royaties...and maybe even more...as I do editing. And I'd be doing what I'm *suppossed* to be doing, following my true passion...and maybe I'd actually get a few steps closer to the ultimate goal of being steadily published by a larger house. So this year, I promise to publish at least one of the two books, no matter what. I will never, ever take another e book for review, because I never get to them. I will probably also decrease my voilunteer things...articles, even book reviews...because I need to make myself work on my books. I have so many ideas floating around in my head, so many worlds I itch to visit, but when you have interviews and reviews and things to edit laying around, with people expecting you to deliver these things, even though everything but the editing is volunteer, you do those things first because it's easier to say no to yourself. So, this time, next year, I will have one book published, one short story published (at least) and one more book completely finished. This is my new life, not new year's, resolution. Because I'll never make it if I pi** around trying to scratch out a living doing things that barely pay...I mean, I'm certainly not going to quit my jobs, (which I'm grateful to have) but you know, I have to get my rear end in gear and start working toward my goals. OK, We can be nice to Cindy and say things like, "Well, you tried the big publishers, that was good, you might have gotten lucky." That's what I was doing....but maybe I need to start and prove my worth with a smaller place before I can really begin. DAW: Rejection slip on query recieved last week. (Blue Moon) Baen: Still haven't heard, and they've had Blue Moon for well over a year...won't return my emails. I have a sick theory the Baen email slush pile may not be the place to send your stuff. Luna: Though they passed on Blue Moon, they still have Balancing Act. They had BM for five months, for BA we're going on 6, so they've got to pass on it soon, I'd think. (I know they're rejecting Balancing Act...one, if you don't like one, I don't see how you *could* like the other, and two, She already said in the acceptance letter that it didn't sound quite right for them. Though since it is the Holidays, we'll probably not hear from them till next year. That's ok. I don't intend to send anything out until the end of January...give people to ctahc up from the Holidays, etc. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 5:42 PM 0 comments

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