Another year without a publishing contract. It's depressing.
Thank God my personal life is on an even keel and the family are all healthy, happy and just as messy and brilliant as last year. There is a significant change, though. I have a senior this year!! (I know, I'm still trying to decide if I went through a time warp somewhere in the early nineties.)
I've been writing (or making the effort, can't be too certain in those early years with four kids and sleep deprivation so high on the agenda) since before my oldest child could tie her own shoes which just goes to prove, there are no short cuts in publishing. I've completed another novel this month, urban fantasy/sci-fi. That makes 6 complete (saleable) fiction novels. (I don't count the two regency romps I wrote when I first started. Can you say M-E-L-O-D-R-A-M-A-T-I-C?)
I've had friends who pubbed early in novel-length fiction (after two or three years of dedicated writing/learning the craft) but who were tripped up over the second sale. I'm not envious of anyone's early success. If I'd pubbed earlier, I wouldn't have been ready for all the business/marketing, etc., that goes along with it.
My youngest will be nine in Feb. It makes a huge difference to have elementary age children vs. toddlers. The guilt-meter doesn't go quite so high at all the time away from the kiddies, hubby, house, parents, siblings, birthdays, (you get the picture.)
So, here's to 2007.
May my rambling muse find herself with a bevy of offers. And hopefully, I'll end up with an agent before Spring. ;)
TTFN
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