I am utterly flipping knackered. Most of the things on my thinks to do list today have been completed. The one that was bolded and written in terse sentence fractions, of course, is not. I have answered about thirty emails, most of them saying something to the effect of, “Thank you for applying, but no,” which is a bit draining in and of itself (I cannot imagine doing that 8000 times a year, as arcaedia does). …oh. *Dude*. I was sure I had to go 388 miles to get to…
thinks
thinks to do: – write 1000 words – print & send contracts – email script to ardian – check page #’s to do thumbnail sketches for » Issue 2, p 5, 10; Issue 3, p18; Issue 4, p7…gosh, he doesn’t make many mistakes… – do thumbnail sketches – try to find out about arts grants – answer jason’s email – answer matt’s email – finish. the damned. pretender’s crown. proposal. – cemurphy.net newsletter – other things I’m no doubt forgetting, sigh I have written out a high-level schedule for the…
whoosh.
It has been a very busy couple of days here. @.@ First off, *thank* you to everybody who offered congratulations on the Chance deal. I’m pretty much over the moon and full of squee and also OH MY GOD HAVE I GOT A LOT TO DO AAAAGH. One of the priorities on that menu is “find a new artist”. I’ve posted the following ad in a handful of places; if you know sequential artists, please do send them my way, at least to take a look at the ad: WORK…
What Catie Did On Friday
Well, let’s see. What have I done today? I admired the absolute torrential downpour of rain, which rained like a rainy thing until it suddenly stopped and sunlight broke over the cathedral: I went to lunch with Ted, and did a wee bit of shopping. I have not done any writing. But there was something else that happened, um, what was it. Oh yeah: I GOT A COMIC BOOK CONTRACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my GOD I have been sitting on this for TWO MONTHS waiting to tell people. My agent, the unbelieveably…
*collapses*
Email from der agent indicates der editor has only minor revision comments on HANDS OF FLAME. I’m so relieved I could cry. That trilogy has been the hardest thing I’ve ever written. I wrote at *least* five books worth of material. I rewrote HEART OF STONE three times before it got bought, and a fourth time to editor spec. I had to throw out two thirds of HOUSE OF CARDS and rewrite the remaining third in revisions. I tore HANDS OF FLAME apart six times before I got it right,…