The Writing Life

I was waiting for her to publicly post it first…. so now it’s really true! For those that didn’t read it in the locked LJ post, me and God’s War and all the rest are now being represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary agency. I’m uber-super-thrilled about this. She was my first

I’ve been spending the weekend trying to put my book projects in order (OK, Saturday was mostly pancakes, barbecue, and the like, but I was thinking real hard about it. Most of the actual working happened today, while I was still hungover from staying up too late out here). And today I reviewed, once again,

Got my check last week for my Year’s Best sale and cashed it yesterday. Yippeee! Friends and relations, however, were rather horrified to learn that the going rate for a Year’s Best anthology sale is… about $100. I could say that nobody writes for the money, but actually, I now write for a living. So,

… time to print out the book again! Wheeeeeeee! Ya’ll have no idea how great it’ll be to get this fucker out the door.

OK, adding that war scene in Azam? Far too much fun, and might be just filler, but it means I can write things like this added excerpt from God’s War: —— Rhys heard a low whine start up from outside, too high for the muezzin. He cocked his head. He knew the sound, but couldn’t

Why, yes, the line edits I actually *wrote down* are in for all 500 pages. Is the latest rewrite “done”? No, no of course not, because I have about four notes still in my head and then another printing because there’s extraneous infodumping that can now come out, somewhere, somehow, because this book should not

I don’t actively HATE God’s War yet, but I’m telling you, with 150 of 500 pages of line edits still to enter, it’s starting to get to me. I must be almost done.