Good point, Ginger. I think that last sentence needs to be "And she’d better do it fast, because she’s got to take on the Winter Court to get her friend back."

Opinions: When I was growing up there was a publicity rule: "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you spell my name right." That was always an exaggeration, but in the day of the interbunny I kind of feel like that is completely obsolete. I know some people I can send my book to who reach a lot people, who I know will review it if I send, but I also know will give it bad reviews. My instinct: better not to send it to them. Agree? Disagree?

Yeah, I think if the odds of a bad review are that high, it's not worth it.

Blah. I took an editorial pass at one of my stories yesterday and am now confronted with the horror that is my own self-important tripe. My goal is to have 3 mid-length stories in editing by next week and I'm nearly there, but now I'm squished. I know the only way out of it is through it. But meh.

Good luck, Sox!

I blogged my new book idea, so now I have to write it. I need to get my query letters done and get those first couple of queries out there so I feel like I can move on to something new.

Thank you Gud!

ETA: BTW, I looked at the fantasy-writers.org site, even though fantasy's not where I live right now. What a great group. I wish there was something like that for sci-fi and such. Have any ideas?

Gud, I'm going to look at your synopsis today, promise.

Sox, does it work for you to do all that once? That would be daunting, and a little confusing, to me.

Also, maybe start editing the piece that's been written the longest, so you have some distance from it?

Thanks for the comments, Amy. I just got them.

I've put up a couple of Sci-Fi stories without any problems, but it's definitely biased heavily toward fantasy. I don't really know of a sci-fi site like that. There's SFWA, but I'm not qualified to join.

Sox, does it work for you to do all that once? That would be daunting, and a little confusing, to me.

I'm not sure what works and what doesn't right now. Much of what I'm trying to do is build some habits back up, in addition to, you know, not writing horrible stuff.

Also, maybe start editing the piece that's been written the longest, so you have some distance from it?

Yah, the one I went after is the one you read a very early draft of. It's changed a lot, but still has a couple of really S-L-O-W sections. /tsks/

I've put up a couple of Sci-Fi stories without any problems, but it's definitely biased heavily toward fantasy.

ah, ok.

I don't really know of a sci-fi site like that.

aside from GWW.

I stumbled across SheWrites after a visit to VIDA (http://vidaweb.org/). I really like Vida, but SheWrites seems very, very big.

Barnes and Noble fixed my author information. Now I finally feel free to link there!

I'm working on outlining Cog. I think I'm all ready to start querying too, but I'm having a hard time willing myself to get those first couple out. The odds seem so terrifyingly low.