So, starting the submission process again. It seems like it should be easy; type up a synopsis, make up a query letter, blahdy blah, hit send, and done. Nope. I spent a few hours yesterday working on my whole "package" and only did one submission (I think). I got some suggestions for my query letter from a publisher who, after reading their multiple blogs, I decided I did not want to go with. I am a laid back person; I try not to be stuck up. I can not submit my "baby" to a stuck up publisher.
Anyway, I had taken their suggestion of putting a biography of sorts in the query letter. An editor sent me an email tonight and told me to leave that part off. So there, stuck up publisher! I thanked her. I really do appreciate feedback. Normally, I feel like my emails and queries go off into cyber space and float around forever.
I've also gone back to Twitter. Good Lord, I hate that place. My home page looks like someone took a Scrabble bag of letters and dumped in on the floor. @ this and # that.
If anyone wants a good read, Google the Freeh report on Sandusky. I'm on page 80-something of 267. It's just unbelievable how the people in charge just kept putting it off and putting it off. At one point, they pretty much admit in an email that they might get in trouble for not reporting the incidents.
Right now, I'm just trying to put off running to Sheetz for Chris. I'm always sent on the Sheetz runs. I should make him go. The car is set for him.
Showing posts with label publishers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishers. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Snore
I'm not sure if this is a bad sign, but I'm working on putting chapters and such in my second book to get it ready to send to publishers and I cannot keep my eyes open. It is so slow at work today; I can't say that aloud, though. I'll jynx it. Anyway, hopefully it's not my story putting me to sleep, and even if it is, it's probably because I already know what happens.
My subscription to Writer's Market's website ran out so I'm just going off the list of publishers I sent my other book to, plus any that I happen to stumble on that I think my work would fit in well with. (<--I just ended a sentence with a preposition! Ha ha, remember that ongoing joke through Beavis and Butthead Do America?)
A coworker asked how much weight I was losing. If we're all going by the scale the Employee Health lady used, compared to my scale at home, I've lost 13 lbs. I think that's total BS, but whatever. I've asked other ladies. They're scales at home compared to the EH scale are pretty close- 1-3 pound differences. Not 13 like mine. So maybe I am losing weight? The coworker said she noticed. I haven't really. Maybe in my butt; of course, the place I didn't really want to lose weight.
My subscription to Writer's Market's website ran out so I'm just going off the list of publishers I sent my other book to, plus any that I happen to stumble on that I think my work would fit in well with. (<--I just ended a sentence with a preposition! Ha ha, remember that ongoing joke through Beavis and Butthead Do America?)
A coworker asked how much weight I was losing. If we're all going by the scale the Employee Health lady used, compared to my scale at home, I've lost 13 lbs. I think that's total BS, but whatever. I've asked other ladies. They're scales at home compared to the EH scale are pretty close- 1-3 pound differences. Not 13 like mine. So maybe I am losing weight? The coworker said she noticed. I haven't really. Maybe in my butt; of course, the place I didn't really want to lose weight.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Fun at work...yeah...
For the second time since I've been working here, I've spilled the soup I brought in for lunch. The first time, the cup tipped over in the microwave and I spent fifteen minutes cleaning the mini stars out of all the cracks and crevices. Today, however, I sent my soup container flying across my desk, onto some papers, and into my lap. Thankfully, I was able to call Chris and my parents and arrange to have an outfit brought over.
I feel much better now in clean clothes. I am listening to my Daniel Tosh station on Pandora now. They're playing some clips from Aziz Ansari; he is freakin' funny.
My last rejection email is weighing on my mind. I need to write some more. I need some inspiration or something.
I feel much better now in clean clothes. I am listening to my Daniel Tosh station on Pandora now. They're playing some clips from Aziz Ansari; he is freakin' funny.
My last rejection email is weighing on my mind. I need to write some more. I need some inspiration or something.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Rejection letter #3
This time the publisher wasn't accepting new material...or so they say. I've been trying to work on new book ideas, but working all this overtime has me drained. It also doesn't help my tendonitis; I come home in pain every night. Typing and writing and the way my desk is set up...not good.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wow, won't do that again
If anyone saw those last two posts, they were made from my phone...which I will not be doing again. Totally messed up.
Anyway, I got my second rejection email about Kayla's Second Chance. The publisher said that it didn't fit with their line of books, but it did fit in with their sister publishing company's...who isn't taking any new material right now. Oh well. I'm not discouraged yet.
Anyway, I got my second rejection email about Kayla's Second Chance. The publisher said that it didn't fit with their line of books, but it did fit in with their sister publishing company's...who isn't taking any new material right now. Oh well. I'm not discouraged yet.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
First rejection letter!
I got my first rejection letter (well, email) the other day. My book wasn't what they were looking for, it said. I feel honored just to have someone email me back. I mean, it looked like they actually read my query and typed the response themselves. Pretty cool, I think.
We had a mini-earthquake today. It felt like Chris was wrestling someone on the floor. At first, I thought I was losing my mind. I have vertigo, and thought it was just a bad episode. But then I realized the curtains were moving, too, not just the floor, and I said to Chris, "What the hell is shaking the house?" He was kinda clueless that anything was happening until I said something. I honestly thought the foundation of our house was caving in. That the landlord would be over at any minute (he lives diagonal from us) to get us out. Or that a beam had fallen over in the basement. I walked outside to see if maybe the neighbors who had just put in a pool were doing more yard work, possibly digging, near our house. But there was nothing. Chris wondered if it was an earthquake and I kinda thought that was out of the question. Then a friend of ours who lives just down the way hopped onto Team Speak and asked if we felt our house shake. He had felt it, too, and thought that a tree branch had hit his house.
Eventually, I saw on facebook that there was an earthquake in VA and it registered 3.5 or something like that up here. I went to work an hour later and it was crazy in there. Apparently, the owner decided to close down all the branches (there was supposed to be aftershocks or something) and they diverted their phones to us. There was something up with the computer system, though, and referrals weren't printing out. So we had phones ringing off the hook and piles of referrals that couldn't be processed. Then, we got shut down at 4. I worked one hour today....yeah. I'm going to ask if I can work on Thurs. to make up the hours, but I doubt it.
We had a mini-earthquake today. It felt like Chris was wrestling someone on the floor. At first, I thought I was losing my mind. I have vertigo, and thought it was just a bad episode. But then I realized the curtains were moving, too, not just the floor, and I said to Chris, "What the hell is shaking the house?" He was kinda clueless that anything was happening until I said something. I honestly thought the foundation of our house was caving in. That the landlord would be over at any minute (he lives diagonal from us) to get us out. Or that a beam had fallen over in the basement. I walked outside to see if maybe the neighbors who had just put in a pool were doing more yard work, possibly digging, near our house. But there was nothing. Chris wondered if it was an earthquake and I kinda thought that was out of the question. Then a friend of ours who lives just down the way hopped onto Team Speak and asked if we felt our house shake. He had felt it, too, and thought that a tree branch had hit his house.
Eventually, I saw on facebook that there was an earthquake in VA and it registered 3.5 or something like that up here. I went to work an hour later and it was crazy in there. Apparently, the owner decided to close down all the branches (there was supposed to be aftershocks or something) and they diverted their phones to us. There was something up with the computer system, though, and referrals weren't printing out. So we had phones ringing off the hook and piles of referrals that couldn't be processed. Then, we got shut down at 4. I worked one hour today....yeah. I'm going to ask if I can work on Thurs. to make up the hours, but I doubt it.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Kayla's out there!
Guess what? I've been busy sending queries! I'm nervous! Talking with Nora last night made me also think about sending my poetry to some places. I wonder how many poems publishers want for a collection? One in Writer's Market said they wanted at least 200! I know I don't have that many.
Everyone at work is leaving me! Diana transferred my second week here; Ashley starts her new position in September; now Joanne, the other secretary, accepted a new job. Crystal has an interview sometime, though she's only a temp here right now. Soon, I'll be the boss and I've only been here a month! I jokingly told the ladies that I should demand a raise, but they said HNA doesn't respond to threats, lol.
Can't wait to go home and play WoW. I did get my preist to 85, so now I'm working on gear. Firelands dailies on most of my toons are keeping me busy. Also, Chris is beta-testing the new Star Wars game and he lets me play every once in a while. It's pretty awesome.
Everyone at work is leaving me! Diana transferred my second week here; Ashley starts her new position in September; now Joanne, the other secretary, accepted a new job. Crystal has an interview sometime, though she's only a temp here right now. Soon, I'll be the boss and I've only been here a month! I jokingly told the ladies that I should demand a raise, but they said HNA doesn't respond to threats, lol.
Can't wait to go home and play WoW. I did get my preist to 85, so now I'm working on gear. Firelands dailies on most of my toons are keeping me busy. Also, Chris is beta-testing the new Star Wars game and he lets me play every once in a while. It's pretty awesome.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Need to get working! er...writing!
Ok....gotta get to work on getting published. Yeah, I got a job and it pays alright; but I just worked on this big project and I think I messed up a bunch. I need to have a back-up plan for when I screw up!
Got my Priest to 85 and got her some gear. Now I'm going to bed!
Got my Priest to 85 and got her some gear. Now I'm going to bed!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Hit a wall
Well, I hit a wall in the whole "getting published" thing. I'm working on a query and a "marketing" essay question answer. I just can't concentrate and work on it. Why? Because I'm trying to get my Shadow Priest to level 85 in Wow, of course!
I was thinking; I don't think I realize how fat I am. It's like it sneaked up on me. We were talking to someone today who said she'd lost 50 pounds and was now just under 200 lbs. That puts her a dozen or so pounds heavier than I, but if I look like she does, someone needs to put me out of my misery. I don't think I look THAT fat...or do I? Maybe I just don't realize how big I am. In my mind, I'm still the 150 lbs I was when I worked at NAC (and thought I was fat then). And it's not just the way I look that bothers me. I really feel like I can't do anything. Going up stairs is really hard. At my cousin's house on the Fourth of July, I was trying to climb up onto the trampoline and my legs just wouldn't move. I was willing my left leg to go up onto the springs, but it wouldn't. I felt like a 'tard, mainly because my sister and her boyfriend had successfully made it into the trampoline with no problems.
Now with my tendonitis in my hand and shoulder, it makes me extra retarded trying to do stuff. I noticed the other day when I was washing dishes that my hands get tired really easily and my right hand (the one with tendonitis) can't hold anything right. I guess I am getting old, but I find it hard to believe that my chronic tendonitis, muscle weakness, eczema, weight gain, and all my hormonal problems aren't associated some how.
Oh, someday I'll have health insurance and find a doctor who will try to figure out what's wrong with me. My health insurance from Home Nursing should kick in around September. Thankfully, I think on August 1 our vision insurance will be active. Chris really needs to get his eyes checked and get new glasses. I wouldn't mind having some new glasses as well.
I always find cute frames, ok? I try them on, they look cute. But my eyes are so bad, that the lenses make my eyes look tiny and suddenly, I'm not so cute anymore. Blah.
I was thinking; I don't think I realize how fat I am. It's like it sneaked up on me. We were talking to someone today who said she'd lost 50 pounds and was now just under 200 lbs. That puts her a dozen or so pounds heavier than I, but if I look like she does, someone needs to put me out of my misery. I don't think I look THAT fat...or do I? Maybe I just don't realize how big I am. In my mind, I'm still the 150 lbs I was when I worked at NAC (and thought I was fat then). And it's not just the way I look that bothers me. I really feel like I can't do anything. Going up stairs is really hard. At my cousin's house on the Fourth of July, I was trying to climb up onto the trampoline and my legs just wouldn't move. I was willing my left leg to go up onto the springs, but it wouldn't. I felt like a 'tard, mainly because my sister and her boyfriend had successfully made it into the trampoline with no problems.
Now with my tendonitis in my hand and shoulder, it makes me extra retarded trying to do stuff. I noticed the other day when I was washing dishes that my hands get tired really easily and my right hand (the one with tendonitis) can't hold anything right. I guess I am getting old, but I find it hard to believe that my chronic tendonitis, muscle weakness, eczema, weight gain, and all my hormonal problems aren't associated some how.
Oh, someday I'll have health insurance and find a doctor who will try to figure out what's wrong with me. My health insurance from Home Nursing should kick in around September. Thankfully, I think on August 1 our vision insurance will be active. Chris really needs to get his eyes checked and get new glasses. I wouldn't mind having some new glasses as well.
I always find cute frames, ok? I try them on, they look cute. But my eyes are so bad, that the lenses make my eyes look tiny and suddenly, I'm not so cute anymore. Blah.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Trying to get published!
Ah, Blogger! We meet again! I haven't been on Blogger for years. I started a blog called Fairy Tale back in 2001 and stopped posting probably around 2005 or 2006...which reminds me, I was writing a book with my old blogs. I'll have to go work on that sometime.
Speaking of books, I'm currently in the process of getting my book Kayla's Second Chance published. I need to fill out an author evaluation form and create a query. I would do it tonight, right now, but Chris is sleeping and my laptop battery is dying.
We're sleeping on the living room floor tonight. It's hot as balls outside and our central air doesn't reach upstairs. I feel bad for my parents; they don't have any air conditioning. I was over there tonight for supper and sweat was running down my back and face. My knees were sweaty. Knees shouldn't be sweaty!
I've been eating over at my parents' a lot recently. Money's tight. Another reason I'm working on getting published; the first is that it's what I've always wanted. Monday I start my job at Home Nursing; I'm assuming I'll be in training for a while, though my supervisor hasn't mentioned how long it will last. I'm pretty sure that I'll be working my "normal" hours of 11-7 on the day of the GCS reunion. My dad was kinda mad when he found out about that. Oh well. How does he expect me to pay for my meal? Ha ha!
Speaking of books, I'm currently in the process of getting my book Kayla's Second Chance published. I need to fill out an author evaluation form and create a query. I would do it tonight, right now, but Chris is sleeping and my laptop battery is dying.
We're sleeping on the living room floor tonight. It's hot as balls outside and our central air doesn't reach upstairs. I feel bad for my parents; they don't have any air conditioning. I was over there tonight for supper and sweat was running down my back and face. My knees were sweaty. Knees shouldn't be sweaty!
I've been eating over at my parents' a lot recently. Money's tight. Another reason I'm working on getting published; the first is that it's what I've always wanted. Monday I start my job at Home Nursing; I'm assuming I'll be in training for a while, though my supervisor hasn't mentioned how long it will last. I'm pretty sure that I'll be working my "normal" hours of 11-7 on the day of the GCS reunion. My dad was kinda mad when he found out about that. Oh well. How does he expect me to pay for my meal? Ha ha!
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