Oh, believe me, I've had my wilty moments, not to mention serious envy of writers who started at the same time I did or later who have books on the shelves now. But I've gone too far down this road to quit. I went six weeks without writing when we were moving to our new place and I was switching jobs, and I swear I had withdrawal symptoms.

And I'm glad my enthusiasm for my WIP is coming through all my angst about how hard it is!

Good luck with the your new writing direction, Susan!

Susan, I love alt-history. FWIW, I'm really interested in reading The Sergeant's Lady now. Really, you had me at "He's a clever sergeant, she's a widowed aristocrat, together they fight crime and Frogs".

connie, awesome! You are a pro. I want to read your book. I can't figure out how to get it on my computer, though. Gotta work on that. (The older I get, the more I hate technology.) (pets her iPod and covers its ears)

FWIW, I'm really interested in reading The Sergeant's Lady now. Really, you had me at "He's a clever sergeant, she's a widowed aristocrat, together they fight crime and Frogs".

Well, I haven't written the mystery version yet. The one we tried to sell is romance with military adventure elements. Sort of Jane Austen meets Sharpe's Rifles, with sex. (I guess the mystery version would be Jane Austen meets Sharpe's Rifles meets Marcus Didius Falco, with sex. Which certainly sounds like a winner to ME, but I'm the one who wants to write it...)

Works for me.

Of course, it's possible that "...with sex." always works for me. Everything's better with sex!

Ooh, Marcus Didius Falco. I'm liking the new mix already!

Constance, don't make me come over there.

It's a brilliant story, one of our best. It's selling as well as the ones who've been flogging theirs all over the web for weeks, and it sold from Mobipocket, which implies to me that the purchasers were strangers (note: purchasers), since otherwise they'd know they could buy it off our website for cheaper.

Also? Not just an e-pub. We are print and electronic publishers of quality transformative fiction celebrating myths, legends, and fairy tales. Yours will be printed in the bump-in-the-night anthology, which will be planned for print as soon as we have enough good bump-in-the-night stories to go in it.

The store's only been working since noon and we've already had several sales. It's pretty cool.

You'd have had another sale if I could figure out how to make Mobipocket work on my machine. See above, re: hatred of technology. Think I'll go look at your main page.

I really should start writing again. I miss it.

Sorry Zen. The PDFs are prettier though. They let me do cool things with the formatting. You can pretend it's a stylistic choice!

It's selling as well as the ones who've been flogging theirs all over the web for weeks, and it sold from Mobipocket, which implies to me that the purchasers were strangers (note: purchasers), since otherwise they'd know they could buy it off our website for cheaper.

bleeble. Ur?

I glanced at the Mobi page again (yes, I've been doing that) and saw "People who have bought this have also bought" and went "Wait. That means--"

t cue delayed self-aggrandizing yeehaw moment I am a fucking published author. People pay for my words. Check one more thing off the Life To Do list. Hah. t / self-aggrandizing yeehaw moment

We now return you to your regularly scheduled "Nice people keep their pre-adolescent urges to themselves" programming.