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Jan. 18th, 2005 04:39 pmWhat with one thing and another, I forgot to mention that earlier this month I sent a submission to Plain Brown Wrapper for their upcoming Valentine's Day anthology.
I spent last week staying with Alex, and for the first few days another of our writerly friends was also in residence. Much fun was had, although I regret to report that little was done on starting the next book in The Syndicate series, largely because I had a nasty post-cold dry cough which resulted in major coughing fits every time I tried to talk for more than a minute at a time. This does put a bit of a dampener on plot discussion sessions.
On the other hand, I started writing up the idea for the selkie story which has been sitting in my story ideas file for a fair while now. I was originally thinking of this as a short story, but it's over 7000 words already, it's clearly going to be at least a novelette, and it appears to be making a bid for novella status. Normally this would result in a bout of angst about why-oh-why can't I write to a length that's easy to place, but in this case the longer it gets the happier the editor who'll see it first will be.
I received the initial proof of the cover art for my next book from Loose Id yesterday. It's... nice. Very nice. Scarily nice. There are minor differences in the details, but it feels as if the artist looked inside my head to get his visualisation of one of the characters and what he's doing in one scene. It's not up on the Loose Id website yet, as it's still being worked on, but there will be a pointer from here as soon as I know it's gone up. And I think I'll be getting myself a large scale print to frame.
I spent last week staying with Alex, and for the first few days another of our writerly friends was also in residence. Much fun was had, although I regret to report that little was done on starting the next book in The Syndicate series, largely because I had a nasty post-cold dry cough which resulted in major coughing fits every time I tried to talk for more than a minute at a time. This does put a bit of a dampener on plot discussion sessions.
On the other hand, I started writing up the idea for the selkie story which has been sitting in my story ideas file for a fair while now. I was originally thinking of this as a short story, but it's over 7000 words already, it's clearly going to be at least a novelette, and it appears to be making a bid for novella status. Normally this would result in a bout of angst about why-oh-why can't I write to a length that's easy to place, but in this case the longer it gets the happier the editor who'll see it first will be.
I received the initial proof of the cover art for my next book from Loose Id yesterday. It's... nice. Very nice. Scarily nice. There are minor differences in the details, but it feels as if the artist looked inside my head to get his visualisation of one of the characters and what he's doing in one scene. It's not up on the Loose Id website yet, as it's still being worked on, but there will be a pointer from here as soon as I know it's gone up. And I think I'll be getting myself a large scale print to frame.