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julesjones) wrote2006-04-15 10:58 pm
julesjones) wrote2006-04-15 10:58 pm
submissions, etc
I submitted two short stories to the Best Gay Erotica 2007 anthology today - right on the deadline... Nothing to Ultimate Gay Erotica this year (which also closed today). And one of the reasons I had nothing to submit to UGE is that it turns out that I have not written a new short story since August 2004. No, it's not a coincidence that I started writing for Loose Id just under two years ago.I've been so immersed in the longer material I've been writing for them that I have not started a new short since shortly after I started working on the Buildup series. I turned in Mindscan, I didn't have the early draft of the initial chunk of Pulling Strings with me, and I started working on what I thought was going to be a short story - and it turned into the novel Spindrift. Which spawned a novella sequel. And I was just about to go back to Pulling Strings when Madame Publisher waved a really tempting novella idea in front of me, only First Footer had to be written to a deadline. Etc, etc. I've done revisions of shorts, but what's gone out is stuff that was written earlier.
Anyway, yesterday I went and looked at ERA to see if there was anything to inspire me, and found another anthology from Hawarth Press, this time focusing on travel tales. Guidelines for "Between the Palms volume 2" here: http://erotica-readers.com/ERA/G/Between.htm
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predatrix yesterday and bugged her about the anthology, then we did some brainstorming this morning. Possible plot is there, now we need to actually find time to write it.
I've added around 2600 words to the WIP this week. Progress was in fits and starts because I've been sleeping badly and have the attention span of a goldfish, but it really didn't help that my word processor threw a weird bug which meant that when I saved the file at the end of the evening, it *didn't* save anything added since the previous save. And would have continued not saving anything (this has happened a couple of times before), so it's a good thingpredatrix noticed something fishy when she did the beta read-through next morning. Much swearing before reconstructing the missing bit. (No, my WP is not the Spawn of Redmond, and it's normally very stable. I'm not changing to whatever you think is the bee's knees, because I've been using LWP for the last [erk how long?] years, and it suits me.)
The verification that I am me has been sent to Amazon, so if you look at the Amazon pages for The Syndicate and Mindscan you will find more of my witterings, in the form of an Amazon author blog wherein I can direct posts to appear on the Amazon page for any of my books listed there.
And when I went to grab the link for The Syndicate, I accidentally clicked on the link for amazon.co.uk instead. And discovered that right this minute the book is ranked 7,262 on amazon.co.uk. Wheee! :-) All right, it just means that someone bought a copy today, but I'm still enjoying looking at a sales rank under 10,000, sad Amazonholic that I am. And I've printed it out, so that I know tomorrow that I was not dreaming.
Anyway, yesterday I went and looked at ERA to see if there was anything to inspire me, and found another anthology from Hawarth Press, this time focusing on travel tales. Guidelines for "Between the Palms volume 2" here: http://erotica-readers.com/ERA/G/Between.htm
Phoned up
predatrix yesterday and bugged her about the anthology, then we did some brainstorming this morning. Possible plot is there, now we need to actually find time to write it.I've added around 2600 words to the WIP this week. Progress was in fits and starts because I've been sleeping badly and have the attention span of a goldfish, but it really didn't help that my word processor threw a weird bug which meant that when I saved the file at the end of the evening, it *didn't* save anything added since the previous save. And would have continued not saving anything (this has happened a couple of times before), so it's a good thing
predatrix noticed something fishy when she did the beta read-through next morning. Much swearing before reconstructing the missing bit. (No, my WP is not the Spawn of Redmond, and it's normally very stable. I'm not changing to whatever you think is the bee's knees, because I've been using LWP for the last [erk how long?] years, and it suits me.)The verification that I am me has been sent to Amazon, so if you look at the Amazon pages for The Syndicate and Mindscan you will find more of my witterings, in the form of an Amazon author blog wherein I can direct posts to appear on the Amazon page for any of my books listed there.
And when I went to grab the link for The Syndicate, I accidentally clicked on the link for amazon.co.uk instead. And discovered that right this minute the book is ranked 7,262 on amazon.co.uk. Wheee! :-) All right, it just means that someone bought a copy today, but I'm still enjoying looking at a sales rank under 10,000, sad Amazonholic that I am. And I've printed it out, so that I know tomorrow that I was not dreaming.