(Entries are in reverse chronology)

August 2008

I am battling my way through the draft for FOX AND PHOENIX and making some last-minute revisions to PASSION PLAY. In between, I'm tweaking and polishing the outline for QUEEN'S HUNT.

July 2008

Paris. Readercon. And if I have my way, more writing.

June 2008

So far this month, I've partipated in a signing for Magic in the Mirrorstone at Books of Wonder, had lunch with my editor (!!) and agent (!!!), and made all kinds of crazy progress on my YA novel.

May 2008

Oops. I was so busy writing, I forgot to update my journal!

April 2008

Revisions done and turned in to the editor. I've also worked out a detailed outline for the second novel, QUEEN'S HUNT, so she can make sure things all mesh when she reviews the new version of PASSION PLAY.

And in the department of happy-dance news, I have two sales to report. "The Golden Octopus" will appear in Postscripts Magazine, tentatively this summer. "Air and Angels" is already online in the Spring Issue of Subterranean Online.

March 2008

The editorial notes have arrived and I have launched myself into revisions.

February 2008

Writing, revising, revising, writing, and Boskone.

My editor (!!!) tells me the editorial notes for PASSION PLAY will arrive Soon, which means lots of writing and revising between then and June.

January 2008

Last year....

At the beginning of last year, I was tentatively hopeful.

But only tentatively.

See, it's easy to dream so hard, you overrun reality, and while it's good and necessary and wonderful to dream, publishing often has a way of whacking you down with a dose of reality.

So maybe I'm dreaming, because last year was a very good year indeed.

Last year I signed with a fabulous agent, Vaughne Lee Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Agency. She landed me a three-book deal with Tor books, and I sold a novella/chapbook to PS Publishing on my own, along with several other shiny sales. I finished all my writing goals (pirates!) and a few extra. Oh, and one of my stories made the Nebula Preliminary Ballot.

So what about this year?

Since Life does intervene, and with alarming frequency, I think it's wise to keep with simple goals. Finish novel revisions on PASSION PLAY and turn that in by its due date. Finish at least (at least) half of the second contracted novel before December. Finish the third story in my Eireann series.

And just like last year, I'll see what happens after that.

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