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Just got back in contact with a high school friend. This makes me happy. :) Perhaps I’ll call him in a bit and see if he wants to go out to lunch!

Got the PHOENIX LAW proposal off to Jenn, YAY. *That’s* done. Now one more proposal to go over, and then it’s full bore on COYOTE DREAMS, as well as half-bore on PHOENIX LAW.

Question in comments asked why I have to do proposals (question in comments actually said, “Why do you have to write proposals? I would figure if they’ve read your other books, that should be enough. I’d publish a book on ‘How to Pretend Your Oscillating Fan is a Jet Plane’, if it was written by you.”, which I thought was pretty funny. *giggle*).

The answer, in short, is that I’m still a newbie. I’m a newbie who’s doing very well, but I’m not at the point of selling books on a paragraph dashed off to my editor. And, really, that’s fine with me. When I pitched the Strongbox Chronicles, I did so in a couple of paragraphs, and was asked to write a proposal because the idea was interesting to my editor. That basically made us both happy; I knew she was interested in the idea, so writing a proposal wasn’t a waste of my time, and she got to see a considerably more detailed proposal to decide to buy from.

Me, I like the surity of proposals. It means I’ve had to think about the story, had to get a start on it, and that I’ve got a reasonably solid idea of where it’s going when I sell it. I’d love to move up to where I don’t have to write them, someday, but for now, proposals are of the good. :)

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