Thanks, guys. Story of my life. Can't write for shitpublication, writing group won't let me quit.
If I tell you I've edited the poem hard copy while everybody else is on meet and greet, made a few changes while it's being read aloud, and handed the amended copy to the writer/reader when she finished. "Read it again." You understand, right?
If I had a nickel for every time I've said, "lose your first stanza, it's just warmup," or, "Use your first line as the title." Or done nothing but removed all but one or two "the"s and changed the line breaks, well. I'd have enough money for S4 SPN dvds.
It's what I see, what I hear, what I do. I just can't do it for my own stuff.
::bounces::
I passed muster with initial editor, who sent my YA along to her superior. All fingers crossed now that she likes it.
And, you know, reads it sooner than eighteen months from now.
Awesome! I hope the finger crossing bears good results and sooner that 18 months.
I passed muster with initial editor, who sent my YA along to her superior. All fingers crossed now that she likes it.
AAAAAAAYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
Zombie YA, yes?
Yeah, Barb. Now ... more waiting.
::sits on hands::
Yeah, Barb. Now ... more waiting.
Aw, honey. I'll sit with you and hold your hand (not while you're sitting on them, although I might sneak a grope).
Deep breaths, babe. Deep breaths.
I'm so used to waiting at this point, it's like ... whatever. Just someone decide one way or another!
And I do hate it when someone has it exclusively and keeps it this long. It's just ... rude.
Oh,they've had it exclusively?
Flag on the play, mofo. Not cool.
Yeah.
What's even worse is I really should have just fucking finished it while I was waiting. And I didn't.
The plan was, since their teen line was new, and I have published with Harlequin, we'd send the partial there and see if they wanted it. (Mostly because I can submit a partial there. And initially my agent thought I would need to write the whole book to sell it elsewhere, without a track record in YA.)
I figured, if they don't want it, we'll throw it at everyone else, especially after my agent read it and said it was going to be fine to submit the partial. But this has been since ... April?
Which is not that long in the publishing world, I know, but still.
