writerly achievements today

[julesjones]

Made contact with my writing partner, and *nagged* re: various projects.

Checked anthology deadlines.

Submitted short story to Best Lesbian Erotica 2007.

Got as far as I can with tax return given that Other Half seems to have hidden my 1099 from Loose Id while I was away, and that line can't be filled in until Other Half returns from work and tells me where it is so that I know the exact amount. I have officially made a profit from the writing this year. Not much of a profit, but then I'm now allowed to deduct things like cons as professional expenses. :-)

I also need to finish the notes I promised alg about my experiences with trying to get my LGBT work published, but that probably won't get finished until tomorrow now. Still, a reasonable day's work considering that I'm still jet-lagged.

One of the things I did yesterday while too bleurgh to do stuff that required actual thinking (see above) was apply to Amazon Connect, and set up an Amazon blog which will eventually appear on the Amazon pages for my books (once Loose Id have confirmed to them that I am me). Also tagged a couple of people as Amazon Friends. Anyone else who has an Amazon profile and wants to be added as a friend, speak up - I have no idea who else might be loitering there. My profile page is here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3FWJUHUOZMQM1/103-2918835-9749456
(I think...)

Still dithering over whether to go to this year's Writers Weekend - I enjoyed last year's and got a lot out of it, but it's a fair chunk of money (it'll probably cost me more than going to Worldcon would) and I'm not sure if I will have anything ready to pitch to an agent or editor.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

trying to get my LGBT work published

My brain is so stuck on electronics right now that my first thought was that you'd been doing some research into a new kind of transistor related to the IGBT (http://www.irf.com/product-info/igbt/), and I spent a few seconds trying to guess what the L stood for before I realised my mistake. Leaky Gate Bipolar Transistor? Laminated? Latching? Duh...

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

That's weird. I got logged out of Livejournal somehow and it didn't warn me before posting as anonymous.

[julesjones]

It goes through the occasional bout of dumping people out of their account without mentioning it. :-( Gets very embarrassing sometimes when you realise you've posted something that depends on people knowing who you are, which has happened to me a couple of times.

And yes, I know what you mean about reading posts with mind in the wrong mode. :-)