I am back to my shutin ways this weekend.

I think I am too, after my haircut at least.

Clearly I need to come down to LA more often, so we both make it out of the house.

Tomorrow, I need to do the errands I skipped today, and then a par-tay. Sunday, nothing until Sunday Family Dinner.

Publishing can move remarkably quickly when it wants to or feels it needs to. The rest of the time, my mother could outrun it. The arrogance of some of the so-called professionals, both agents and editors, is absolutely maddening. I fired an agent for taking seven weeks to get back to me on a proposal when she promised two weeks. (There were other reasons, but that was a biggie.)

What it comes down to is what you're willing to put up with. I'm exceedingly patient, up to a point and I don't rely on writing as my family's primary source of income, so I can afford to be patient. I hate with a mad passion, however, seeing deals being made left and right, for stories in niches and genres where mine could fit and feeling as if people who should be advocating on my behalf aren't doing their job. (Another agent gone for that reason.)

So yeah, taking control where you can is a biggie. I'm not sure I could've made that same choice, Allyson, but I definitely understand where you're coming from and I'm glad you feel better for having made it.

In my totally uninformed opinion, summer doesn't sound very far away. You should do what's best for you, but that doesn't seem like a long time for the slow turning wheels of business.

Oh, no. If they decided to buy it, release schedules are up to them. If they reject, then I can go the Lulu POD route and market it myself this summer. Maybe I can sell a thousand copies. I am internetty. I can try, anyway.

If I fail, at least it's on me. But if I know by April that it isn't going to sell, then I have time to get my ducks in a row and have it in my hands in July.

Timelies all!

There's an open sing with the folklore society tonight. Other than that, no social plans.

(With which I Tivoed goth videos off 120 Minutes and compiled them for Jilli.)

Which was fantastic. And then Plei's hubby made a DVD of that for me!

Weekend plans: going dancing, dealing with stuff I need to mail out, going thrift shopping for clothes to be turned into a Victorian zombie costume. And going to Fluevog to buy boots!

Weekend's busy - Dinner with old lawyer friends tonight (old friends who are lawyers, that is), Working at the theatre tomorrow afternoon til 5:30 or so, drinks with my friend Matt at 6, rugby social at 8, possible gay bar later. Sunday at the theatre all day. I need to clean my apartment.

Also, just finished first meeting with new boss. He seems cool, but I spent 3 days preparing for the meeting, arrived with folders full of stuff, and he looked at none of it. Oh, well.

ita, say something first and see how it's handled. If it's not or handled poorly then tip accordingly.

Wasn't there video somewhere of that Spike tongue thing?

What? It's for work.

I took advice from the infamous Tim Minear and said, "I don't give a fuck about the money."

I do think that's some good advice. When I finally get done with revision and rewriting my TDM project (so far that has taken twice the time of the initial draft), I thinking of make a podcast out of it. I'll give the publishing thing a shot, but the chance of that is small, so I figure a podcast might be a good way to share this thing I've made.

I have a lot of confidence in your ability to promote Sam if you go the Lulu route, Allyson.

I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. I mostly feel like sleeping and watching TV, so that's probably what I'll do.

Oh, paying bills, it's time to pay bills again.

I think we are going to out to dinner tonight, so that'll be fun. We've been unsuccessfully trying to go out to dinner for what seems like months, so I hope we can pull this off and finally get my super secret go to a restaurant once a week plan underway.

Maybe Alice in Wonderland at some point.