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A bit late, but here they are: October Goals: As you can see, I’ve been so busy with The Operative that I didn’t get much else done. Here are the November goals: Complete first draft of The Operative Plan my convention list for next year…
Let’s start with a recap of the September Goals: It’s not good if don’t finish something your publisher wants. I got too involved in writing the darn thing. So here’s the October goals: Short but sweet. There’s a lot of work ahead.
I am so pleased to announce the sale of The Operative and The Rebel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, by Sara Megibow at kt literary. Film: Jerry Kalajian of IPG. Back in July, I finished polishing the first fifty pages of The Operative and completed…
It looks like I missed a few goal postings. Let’s see if I can do better. My last goals were: Overall, pretty good. There was a fair amount of hard work in there. Last month I attended WorldCon and had a discussion with my editor…
Over the last couple of weeks, I attended two conventions: When Words Collide in Calgary, Alberta (a must for writers of genre fiction), and Sasquan/Worldcon in Spokane, Washington. A lot of wonderful things happened at Worldcon, but one of my highlights is the cover of…
First, a summary of how I did on last months goals. So, not too bad, I guess. My reading at Keycon went okay. I’ll need to practice more before the books launch. For June, this is what I hope to do: That’s quite a lot, especially…
I’m going to steal a page from Chadwick Ginther‘s book, and try posting monthly goals here. I’m hoping that going public with my goals will on a somewhat monthly basis will not only help me keep them, but help me understand why I didn’t achieve…
Things are moving along here. Sheila Gilbert, my editor at DAW, and I had a great discussion about the cover design for The Courier. She wanted to get Cliff Nielsen, the artist for Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones series, Tanya Huff’s The Silvered, E.C. Ambroses’s…
I’ll be at KeyCon in Winnipeg again this year. Here is my tentative schedule: Sat, 10am- Your Query Package How to ‘lure’ in an agent and/or editor Sat, 12pm- Reading (with Adam Knight) I’ll be reading from ‘The Courier’, my novel coming out from DAW…
Getting an agent is hard. Getting a publisher can be harder. But what happens when you strike gold? These are my rambling thoughts on what changes… Everything and nothing. My process was a bit backwards. I received an offer from a publisher before I got…
