Submission Care Group 10

I'll stop by, Dee! :)

Hey, snagged the second post.  Cool.

Got my author proofs today so am balancing my time between that and the new book that's due in 7 weeks...ack.

Thanks for this, Dee. I've popped over and put in a question. Should be a great interview!

J

Hopefully the Nocturne is the one for you.

Editors on conflict sounds good.

Me? I am busy with puppies and have a deadline looming in July. My 12th book was accepted earlier this week -- so a quiet hooray. It still does feel special. Because there are always Crows of Doubt.

Michelle S

Congrats on your sale, Michelle. Those wretched crows never go away do they?

J

Dee, huge vibes heading your way.  "Pale" sounds like such a cool title!   Good luck with that.

 Michelle S, kudos on your 12th book, and glad to know it's still so incredibly special!  I can't see the glow every going away.  I just sold a short to an epub and felt as excited and thrilled as when I sold to NY.  it's a definite high. (have fun with your puppies too!)

You must work very very hard...obviously, otherwise this wouldn't be your 12th book. Good job.

I'm awed! Congratulations, Michelle.

And congrats on your ebook sale, Juliana.

All sales are sparkly!

12 is awesome Michelle S!

Lacey - I SO know what you mean!  I groan every time when I see the page counts getting up there for the subcare forum 'knowing' its coming--The change over. And every time when it comes I hope Dee(still love ya Dee) has left me a direct link. But alas...nope. And then I hold my breath as I go a searching. LOL This last time my youngest was trying to talk to me as I 'searched' and I was, 'Wait, wait! Just give me a sec!' afraid to take my eyes off the screen and lose where I'd been looking. :-) How crazy is that?!!

Hope you all are having a great week!

Cole

All this good news gives me energy.  Which is good.  After deciding to write my second Desire manuscript in time for the pitch contest, I need all the oomph I can get.  Fortunately, I learned enough from the first that I think editing will be a lot smoother.

Am I rambling and incoherent?  Did I really decide to do it in a month?  Oh noooooo!  The juxtaposition of my current writing frenzy with knowing it might take a year to hear about my first sub is hysterical.  Wait, that's me that's hysterical!

:-) hehe Dee! I chuckled reading your post and then promptly thought....I 'like' being in the nest. I 'don't' want to leave. I dont' want to leave. I don't want to leave! :-)

Michelle S - great idea for finding the new sub care! Definitely going to remember that. 

QuinnT - good luck with your month story write! Should be fun. :-)

 Cole

Well, got my postcard back in the mail today from Canada, so I know they got my Blaze and opened the envelope.  Whew!  Just as I was starting to wonder where that card had gotten to or if the MS had vanished into the postal system.  :)  Now the knuckle-biting over actually hearing from them can begin.  *G*

 JT

Best of luck, JT!

Way to go JT, and Jax hang in there!

visit my blog today for Snippet Saturday, http://www.julianastone.com/blog/ .  It's a new weekly feature I'm participating in and every week it's a different theme.  Today's theme is first kiss!  I posted a snippet from the Young Adult I finished up last month, but at the bottom of my excerpt are links to a whole host of writers who've posted snippets on their blogs.  Many different genres!  So, if you have time to blog hop, stop by!

Have a great weekend!

This was one of those times when the title and date are set on the book before the book's actually been approved and so I'm waiting on revisions still.  As the days go by I cross my fingers more and more.  And I have my modern heat partial with my editor as well.

:-)

Donna

Dee in reading your last post I was a bit confused (others may laugh in "the bit" part), but are your leaving SubCare as our moderator?  Congrats on getting your entry out there!  Jamie

Thanks for the nail bites Steph and Jules! Mine are all gone.

And Cole, thanks for checking the blog! I have to stop myself from whining a lot on it. I'd love to have an announcement on it too. And at this stage, either a yes or a no would be appreciated.  Ah well, am thinking of sending a little email at the end of the week just to check progress. In the 12th week now so am hoping that will be okay.

As to me, well, got three wips in the editing stages so if they give my current sub the old heave-ho, I'll have something else to send them. 

Quinn, no, you shouldn't feel like a slacker! I'm just a compulsive story beginner, plus I get bored with a story quickly. Probably explains why I've got 25 years of story beginnings and no endings. Anyway, I have found that the best way to keep the momentum up is to have several wips on the go at once so that if I get bored with one, I can go and do another. It works for me anyway. 

Nearly up to the three-month mark on my Nocturne Bites sub. 

Hope everyone is well!

...and out!

Good luck, Dee!!

I wonder why the Harlequin Historical Undone monthly offering isn't listed.  Do we not have a release?  Curious.

Donna - crossing my fingers with you! Got your newsletter and I can't wait to read your latest release. :-) I'm curious about the teen line--definitely looking forward to trying one(yes i do like to read teen books too :-) )

Dee - funny, I reread your post and still didn't see where they'd gotten the idea you were leaving... my brain 'put' in the missing word link each time I read it! LOL I guess it knew what you were referring to and thus... :-) And good luck on your submission - they're going to love it!

Carol C - Boy I'd say you're close! I can totally understand trying to find the time to write. Are you working on a book for Presents right now too? Or is that still in the thinking process?

Jax - LOL I've gone from dying to hear news from London to thinking...no news is still good news. There's still a chance. :-) The hubby ironically though is wondering regualarly what is taking them so long. LOL 

QuinnT - I'm only working on 1 at a time too :-) As Jax said, you have to do what works for you. I used to be one who started but never finished. Tons of books started sitting on my disks. :-) So knowing this about myself, I've taken to being a bit more strict with myself and sticking to finishing one before starting another. 

Elove - whoohoo!!!

 Michelle W - did you find anything out? Are they having a release this month?

Okay, I'm off to write today! I figured out several important things concerning my characters yesterday. So much fun! :-) Have a good one everyone!

Cole

So we can have our cyber rewards visually.  This must mean I'm procrastinating.  Back to work!

Later edit:  The sad thing is, I've come up with some great ones.  Must get back to writing!

Guys, I have news. No, not a sale but I think I'm going to be asked to do a second lot of revisions!! I know, sounds weird that I'm not sure but the EA whom I was dealing with sent me my ms by mistake then emailed me again to apologise and that she was meaning to send it to a colleague so she could send me revisions and that I would have feedback by Tuesday. Now I didn't think I was the type to agonise over each word in an editorial letter but the fact that she mentioned revisions means I'm going to get them right? Feedback wouldn't just be a flat out rejection? 

Or am I being too much of a ditz and the fact that the word revisions means I'm getting revisions??

Jax, that is soooooo exciting!!! They wouldn't bother asking you to revise once again unless they loved it!!! So happy for you When Natalie Anderson sold to MH, she had to do major revisions to ms, then much less revisions on the second round, then sold - so you're in great company.

Hope you hear very very soon.

Soraya 

Thanks guys. I think I'm just being paranoid. Don't want to go all 'woohoo revisions!' only to get the wrong end of the stick completely and end up having a rejection! Ah well, I guess I'll find out next week hmmm?

IF  I get more revisions, I hope they're only little tweaks, Soraya! The last lot were fairly major - give the heroine some internal conflict anyone?? 

Joanne, no, next Tuesday I'm thinking. 

Congrats Donna. I saw a bucket around here somewhere, here Dee.

I sent in a partial to M&B--I'm now waiting for my first rejection.