I have a cold. Again. I had a cold one month ago today. This sucks. I really need to take better care of myself. Anyway, Happy New Year everyone! I’ll be hopped on champagne and cold medicine tonight.

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I’m still stunned about the contract. And then when that feeling subsides – usually just for an instant – then panic sets in. What the hell have I done to myself? There is a lot of work involved in this process. I even developed a bout of (not-so-unusual) insomnia last night dwelling on it. I [...]

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My printer is churning out the contract right now and it’s a heck of a lot more complicated than I had ever anticipated. Cover art. Cover art?! I get to approve cover art? Yes, you would think that this is common sense, but I guess I never really thought about it. I’m supposed to sign [...]

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Well, Merry Christmas to me! I received an email notification this morning that the first publisher I submitted it to wants to offer a contract for “Soldier”!!! Can you believe it? I still can’t. Go me! Go me! I’ll be cheesing about this all day.

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I don’t know why I bother. I said that I was going to let “Trial” sit and then edit and then send it to a publisher. Nope. I re-edited on Friday night and sent it off that evening. No turn around time listed on their site, but I would be very, very surprised if it [...]

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Damn I’m good. I mean it. I’m really good. I’ll try not to break my arm patting myself on the back but I just finished “Trial” and it’s 23 pages, 6400 words of *spice*. I mean, it’s hot. I’m not certain that I’ll keep the title since I veered away from what I had originally [...]

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I really shouldn’t bother saying that I’m not going to do something. Nine times out of ten, I end up doing it anyway. I’m referring to The Voice. I said I wasn’t going to edit it. Yeah, right. Not only did I review it once, I reviewed it three times. (And caught errors in it [...]

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Oh yikes! Double yikes! Got an email today that half of November’s submissions have been answered! The other half will be answered before the New Year! Yikes! I haven’t gotten an answer. Whether this is good or bad news….I just don’t know. On another note, despite my earlier resolution, I have started editing The Voice. [...]

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I really, really need more discipline. I was perusing some publisher sites and came across a call for stories from Harlequin called Spice Briefs. They want stories between 5 and 15K words (totally up my alley) that are hard-core erotica. ::Hmmm:: Hard-core, you say? Instantly, I pulled my MC from the story I just started [...]

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I finally did it. I started another story. And that should be good news, right? Well, the new story has hit some snags. I’ve started it exactly three times. What I mean to say is that after the first start, I realized it was missing some oomph, so I inserted a few lines. About half [...]

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