MememeMEEEEEEEEmememe...

My agent would like the following:

A. The first fifty pages of the fourth series book, Cruel Sister. Status: I have 42 pages.

B. Synopsis for Cruel Sister. Status: ready.

C. Blurbs (one or two paragraphs each) for potential books 5 and 6. Status: songs for books chosen, blurbs will take maybe twenty minutes.

I just pinged her to ask if she'd like to see what I've got. Now that the third book, Matty Groves, is officially accepted by St. Martins, we can start the pitch process and from where I'm sitting, the sooner the better.

Exciting. Go get 'em, Deb.

I would like to publically thank Deb for the wonderful feedback she's giving me. In addition to the excellent practical help, she's helping me finally trust myself as a mainstream writer. That was the biggest hurdle.

erika, BTW, check your email.

edit: connie, welcome, ma'am.

Go Deb!

I emailed the contest coordinator to express my concerns and got a very nice email back, saying that I shouldn't have been marked down for first person, and she'll definitely keep a closer eye on this judge in the future. I've also written my thank you notes to the coordinator and judges to mail out today, including a perfectly polite though distant one to the problem judge.

That felt good to cross off the to do list.

Susan, that's a very good way of handling that situation. If the judge has that deep an issue, they need to know about it.

Your current Anna chapter is next up in my queue!

New drabble time!

Drabble challenge #38 (falling) is now closed.

Challenge #39 is: Upside-Down.

No weird stuff where you post in upside-down text, or I'll send my goons after you....

Who are your goons?
I might like it.

or

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?goons your are Who

or

.ti ekil thgim
?snoog rouy era ohW

Cindyyyyyyyyy....

You'd better lock your door, girlie, because I have dispatched my goons.

Deb--I don't suppose you've emailed me your Anna comments yet? I ask not to nag--there's no rush at all--but because I haven't gotten an email I was expecting that I know other people got, and the internets have been kinda random and screwy today. So I'm testing the theory that some of my email is getting lost or delayed somehow.