Mid-Week Update
Dec. 9th, 2009 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI haven't posted the stats in a while, so I thought I'd do it now. I took my lovely and talented wife (snippy/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy) to a dental appointment this morning, then dropped her off at work. After that I went out to buy her Hannukah gift at the mall and get some lunch. Now I'm back and will start writing shortly.
But first I had to respond to another rejection. *le sigh*
Ah well. I found another market and sent the story right back out again. Now, I should say up front that I'm not going to let my feelings interfere with my actions, but--I've sold five stories to Cobblestone Press and none elsewhere. Makes me feel like a one-note wonder. Makes me wonder when/if I'll be able tofool convince anyone else to buy my stuff.
But that's one those Voices they talk about, the ones that will stop you if you listen to them. Which is why, as I said, I won't let it deter me from continuing to write and circulate stories. But occasionally it does wear on me. It helps to wander through the vast, VAST selection of books in the science fiction/fantasy and romance sections of the bookstore at the mall. The sheer volume of fiction being published week after week after month after year is staggering. I gotta get me a piece of that action, and I think I can eventually.
I have two more stories in the works, partially completed. I hope to get them both done in the next few days. I have another idea fermenting, but not quite ready to start writing. And a couple of ideas I'm poking and prodding while I try to figure out what story I can spin out to novel length for my next stab at a novel.
In the mean time, my occasional, not-on-a-regular-schedule list of works in circulation or sold:
IN CIRCULATION
"Clean Up Detail"
"Hotel Party"
"Man-Ape"
"Watching Jennifer"
"Home Invasion"
"Making Friends"
"Surprise Party"
"Ink"
"Drowned"
"Reunion"
SOLD
"Flying High" available from Cobblestone Press
"Bound by Convention" available from Cobblestone Press
"Queen Bee" will be published December 16, 2009 (Cobblestone)
"Three On A Rooftop" sold, being edited (Cobblestone)
"One Knight Stand" just sold (Cobblestone)
RESTING
"Unconventional" (pulled from circulation temporarily to rework for different markets)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Working Titles)
"Fast Friends"
"The Wild One"
Stories in Circulation: 10
Rejections: 24
Stories Accepted: FIVE
snippy/snippy) to a dental appointment this morning, then dropped her off at work. After that I went out to buy her Hannukah gift at the mall and get some lunch. Now I'm back and will start writing shortly.But first I had to respond to another rejection. *le sigh*
Ah well. I found another market and sent the story right back out again. Now, I should say up front that I'm not going to let my feelings interfere with my actions, but--I've sold five stories to Cobblestone Press and none elsewhere. Makes me feel like a one-note wonder. Makes me wonder when/if I'll be able to
But that's one those Voices they talk about, the ones that will stop you if you listen to them. Which is why, as I said, I won't let it deter me from continuing to write and circulate stories. But occasionally it does wear on me. It helps to wander through the vast, VAST selection of books in the science fiction/fantasy and romance sections of the bookstore at the mall. The sheer volume of fiction being published week after week after month after year is staggering. I gotta get me a piece of that action, and I think I can eventually.
I have two more stories in the works, partially completed. I hope to get them both done in the next few days. I have another idea fermenting, but not quite ready to start writing. And a couple of ideas I'm poking and prodding while I try to figure out what story I can spin out to novel length for my next stab at a novel.
In the mean time, my occasional, not-on-a-regular-schedule list of works in circulation or sold:
IN CIRCULATION
"Clean Up Detail"
"Hotel Party"
"Man-Ape"
"Watching Jennifer"
"Home Invasion"
"Making Friends"
"Surprise Party"
"Ink"
"Drowned"
"Reunion"
SOLD
"Flying High" available from Cobblestone Press
"Bound by Convention" available from Cobblestone Press
"Queen Bee" will be published December 16, 2009 (Cobblestone)
"Three On A Rooftop" sold, being edited (Cobblestone)
"One Knight Stand" just sold (Cobblestone)
RESTING
"Unconventional" (pulled from circulation temporarily to rework for different markets)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Working Titles)
"Fast Friends"
"The Wild One"
Stories in Circulation: 10
Rejections: 24
Stories Accepted: FIVE