There’s been a bit of a shift in blogging focus here since I fessed up about the impending baby. Lots of pregnancy talk. A bit of knitting talk. Pretty much nothing about writing or the first novel or the second novel. Have you noticed? Go on. You can admit it. <\/p>\n
The reason? The first novel, Drowning Practice, is still in the shopping-around-to-publishers phase under the expert supervision of my fantasticwonderfulIloveher agent to beat all agents. I’m still waiting for word. Why such a long wait? Well… A) That’s the process, folks. Yeah. It kind of sucks. It’s torture. B) No one works in book publishing during the holidays, or really in the weeks leading up to the holidays. How do I know this? I’m sitting right now in the more than half-empty office of a major book publisher. (No, I didn’t break in. I work here.) Or, that is to say, very very few acquisitions editors work during these weeks. So I won’t be hearing anything before January. And then there’ll be a backlog of work so….<\/p>\n
Basically, I sit around very nervously and try not to think too much about the book or wonder who is reading it right now and loving it or hating it.<\/p>\n
No, I haven’t been terribly successful at not thinking about that. Though the baby-in-progress has been a good distraction. Nothing like pregnancy to put other major and minor life issues in perspective. But the book is still a very big deal to me. And I’m nervous. Oy vey. <\/p>\n
The second book? The novel that I started at Ragdale? Haven’t done much writing at all since getting back from Ragdale. I could blame the editing work I had to take on, or the distraction of the impending kid, or the way my sudden need to go to sleep at a reasonable hour has cut into my writing time, but really I think it’s the not knowing what’s going to happen with the first book that has me thrown off my normal writing schedule. I want to get back to it this week if I can. I finished my last editing job for the next little while yesterday, so that means Friday I’m free to go back to my writing schedule. And I will. Gulp. <\/p>\n
And maybe next week I’ll have some good news about the first book? Or maybe not. Or not yet. But one can hope, yes? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s been a bit of a shift in blogging focus here since I fessed up about the impending baby. Lots of pregnancy talk. A bit of knitting talk. Pretty much nothing about writing or the first novel or the second …<\/p>\n