Brand-new here. Saw the writing thread and decided to come on in.

Susan W., I'd love to hear more about Lucy and Mr. Wright. I was an editor at a publisher for years, and I acquired mostly romance, historical and contemporary. I'm home with kids writing now, too. Sounds like you're expecting any day now?

Historicals can be a hard sell. And Avon (while it's definitely a wonderful place to be published) is extremely hard to get into precisely because their romances are so successful.

I'll check back in tomorrow, or you can email me if you like. And if I'm making newbie mistakes all over the place, I apologize...

Welcome! The only newbie mistake around here is being a jerk, and you're far from that.

Hey! We have a new writer! (waving)

AmyLiz, what Betsy said.

Welcome, AmyLiz! I've bookmarked your post and will be emailing you in the next few days.

Susan, I never got to read your book this summer, although I've heard all kinds of fab things about it.

I'd love to look at it, and I cannot tell you how many thousands of romances I've read.

Lord, that's scary.

Email addy is good.

Thanks, Erin! I'm holding off until I've had a chance to rewrite the beginning, because that's the one thing I know for sure needs fixed, but I'll let you know when that's ready.

Just send it on whenever, dollface.

Just wanted to welcome AmyLiz.

Well, all the welcomes definitely make for a nice warm fuzzy on a Tuesday morning. Will be completely ignoring my looming deadline reading through the thread over the next couple of days...interested to see what everybody's working on.

Hi. Welcome to the asylum, babe. I'm working on a collection of short stories in addition to following crazy fanfiction plot bunnies. Sometimes my stories lose out.