I am so friggin’ COLD lately that I may just lose my mind. But, I can keep myself warm enough with the happy happy joy joy glow of knowing that I’ve completed the tweaking of EIGHTH GRADE BITES. My wonderful editor (I love her–I really do) has sworn that the question-asking is done (I’m trying really hard to believe her), and the book is as good as the book is going to get. I really hope you all like it, that the world likes it, and that I can keep doing this for the rest of my life. Because, as much of a rollercoaster as getting published has been, I love my job, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. (Who else gets to go to work in their jammies all day and refer to purchasing the new My Chemical Romance CD as “a business expense”?) So please…I’m begging you…buy my book. If you hate it, I’ll do everything I can to make you love the next one.
Speaking of which…
I’m about (kinda, sorta) half-way through my revisions of NINTH GRADE SUCKS. (Yay me!) And I think that the reason these revisions have been such a pain is that I’ve learned an enormous amount from my editor and copyeditor. In short, I’m better armed against the ugliness and less-than-logical points of a draft. I can do this. It’s so weird knowing that I can do this…and do it well. I may never be Stephen King…but I’m confident I have the ability to simultaneously scare people and make them laugh. So, in a week and a half I’m thinking I’ll send NGS on to my Crit Partner and by December 1st, this sucker should be moving to my fabulous agent. With his blessing, I’ll forward it to my wonderful editor and hopefully…hopefully they’ll like it.
If not, it’s back to the drawing board.
Maybe with a pitchfork.
(No. I don’t know what I meant by that either.)
By the by, if the beginning of your email address is jadedmetaphor, please email me with your name and mailing address–you’ve won one of the Minion Packs in my ‘Bat to School’ contest!
BIG CONGRATS to Thomas Kingsley Troupe, who won the coffin backpack, and to Emily Burkot, who won the Demonia batwing wallet! Also to Stephanie March, Michael Morrell, Denise Ashworth, and Kelly Condon, who each won a Minion Pack! My first newsletter will come out soon, and will contain the first glimpse of my next contest–thanks for entering everyone, and good luck in the next one!
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Congrats on the work on EGB. I know the NSG is going to be even better.
Congrats to everyone who won in your contest. I hope that they love their winnings.
I just realized that I already won… I got to hang with you at the backspace conference and that trumps all swag winnings
Just keep up the excellent writing and great blogs and I’ll be here basking in the glow of my winnings.