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julesjonesCatch-up...
I've finally got through all the stuff with imminent deadlines (I hope), so I can now get down to some recreational reading for the first time in... too long, really. I've started reading Alma Alexander's The Secrets of Jin-shei. I'm only about half way through, so no detailed comments yet. However, even this far in I would like to echo Mary Gentle's reaction of "fucking brilliant!" And I'm not just saying that because Alma happens to be a friend. :-) Alma, this is an astonishing piece of work. I'm not surprised you've been collecting translations. What's the count up to now? Nine, isn't it?
Pleasant form rejection letter from Best Gay Erotica 2006 yesterday, saying I'd be sent the guidelines for next year's anthology. Richard Labonte mentioned that he'd had several hundred submissions, and the number keeps going up each year. It seems to be a trend, as Maxim Jakubowski mentioned having received nearly four hundred submissions, and other anthology editors I've submitted to in the last couple of years have had a similar experience. I'm not sure how many authors that amounts to -- I typically send two submissions in different styles where the editor is willing to receive multiple submissions. I can see editors who currently take multiple submissions having to go to only one submission per author other than by invitation in future, just to keep the numbers at a manageable level.
Received a very nice piece of fan mail yesterday from someone saying how much she enjoyed Black Leather Rose in the Counting the Ways anthology. Egoboo is always good, but it's particularly nice to have someone go into detail about *why* they liked the story.
I was interviewed by Just Erotic Romance Reviews last week. The interview will be appearing in their newsletter in the near future, although I don't have a date yet.
I've got the release date for Spindrift, although as ever I'm not allowed to tell people what it actually is.
My editor's read Ship to Shore and likes it, although now she understands why I was worried about whether it would really fit in a romance catalogue. :-) We bounced some ideas back and forth for tweaking the second half a little so that it looks a bit more like a romance novella, so that's this week's writing work.
I've finally got through all the stuff with imminent deadlines (I hope), so I can now get down to some recreational reading for the first time in... too long, really. I've started reading Alma Alexander's The Secrets of Jin-shei. I'm only about half way through, so no detailed comments yet. However, even this far in I would like to echo Mary Gentle's reaction of "fucking brilliant!" And I'm not just saying that because Alma happens to be a friend. :-) Alma, this is an astonishing piece of work. I'm not surprised you've been collecting translations. What's the count up to now? Nine, isn't it?
Pleasant form rejection letter from Best Gay Erotica 2006 yesterday, saying I'd be sent the guidelines for next year's anthology. Richard Labonte mentioned that he'd had several hundred submissions, and the number keeps going up each year. It seems to be a trend, as Maxim Jakubowski mentioned having received nearly four hundred submissions, and other anthology editors I've submitted to in the last couple of years have had a similar experience. I'm not sure how many authors that amounts to -- I typically send two submissions in different styles where the editor is willing to receive multiple submissions. I can see editors who currently take multiple submissions having to go to only one submission per author other than by invitation in future, just to keep the numbers at a manageable level.
Received a very nice piece of fan mail yesterday from someone saying how much she enjoyed Black Leather Rose in the Counting the Ways anthology. Egoboo is always good, but it's particularly nice to have someone go into detail about *why* they liked the story.
I was interviewed by Just Erotic Romance Reviews last week. The interview will be appearing in their newsletter in the near future, although I don't have a date yet.
I've got the release date for Spindrift, although as ever I'm not allowed to tell people what it actually is.
My editor's read Ship to Shore and likes it, although now she understands why I was worried about whether it would really fit in a romance catalogue. :-) We bounced some ideas back and forth for tweaking the second half a little so that it looks a bit more like a romance novella, so that's this week's writing work.
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Date: 2005-06-28 06:02 pm (UTC)Congrats on the interview (and the other stuff) - and funny, I'm at present engaged in much the same sort of (re)writing work myself... maybe we should set each other deadlines...
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Date: 2005-06-28 06:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-28 09:21 pm (UTC)At the moment I'm avoiding any deadlines that aren't externally imposed. The late stage of the tonsillitis is proving remarkably persistent given that the sore throat only lasted three days or so - I'm *still* coughing and suffering severe congestion. :-/ And I'm expecting the second round of edits on Spindrift back sometime this week, so once that comes in I'll be dropping everything else. Otherwise it might have been fun.
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Date: 2005-06-28 10:08 pm (UTC)I'm ploughing through mine, most of them are of a nature described by editors et al as "cosmetic", which is fine but it still takes up an unconscionable amount of time. The final section, which needs to be vivisected to fit their new guidelines, is going to be a *bitch*. I am SO looking forward to that. Not.
{sigh}
Good luck with yours...
A.