Not quite a Me!Me!, but
various authors* have been listing, or list on a regular basis, the projects
they’re working on, and since I find it fascinating, I thought I’d do the same.
(You might not find it fascinating. Let me know.) Perhaps not regularly (I can’t
quite seem to shoehorn concepts like regular and schedule into my life), but occasionally. Or, at least, now.
Out of the Frying
Pan, aka the manuscript
that will not die. Status: effing tweaking. An editor asked for tweaks.
Teresa and I discuss, get some tweaks done, then get sucked into other projects
with deadlines and payments and whatnot; lather, rinse, repeat. We’re so close,
too. One scene she needs to write, and I need to knit it all together, and then
it’s outta here.
Blackwood House. Status: manuscript cleanup/upload prep. Time to get this sweet paranormal
romance off my hard drive and out into the world. Yes, I wrote a sweet romance.
Nearly killed me, but I did it. Since it was rejected by the only market it fit
into (since it’s only 50K), there it languished, occasionally surfacing to
meekly inquire whether I was going to add those half-thought-out subplots so it
could become A Real Book. Well, the answer is clearly “no,” because I have way
too many new books to write to spend time going backwards—and because it works
as it is. It’s been through copyediting; next step is dealing with those edits
and getting the manuscript ready to upload as an ebook. Oh, and get possible
cover photos to Phae for the cover design. Then, after it’s up for sale, I’ll
work on the POD version. (That may not get far until July when I take a
publishing workshop that will cover the process.)
Untitled story for
mystery contest. Status: idea obtained. (Actually, the idea was obtained
last year before the contest, but I never got around to writing it.) Mystery
story set in New England, due May 1.
Untitled Custom
Erotica Source
stories. Status: accepted
assignment. Two related 3K stories due end of May. I wrote a novella for this
customer previously, and these stories will be in the same vein, so they should
be easy enough.
Work-for-Hire fantasy
story proposals. Status: percolating. I turned in the first story and want
to get a couple more proposals off to the editor, plus there’s another universe
I’d love to write in, so I want to write some proposals up for that, too. I’d
like to have those out by early May.
Epubbed
stories. Status: ongoing. I’ve got something like 25 up now, and I’m
selling an average of 3 stories a day via Amazon (I haven’t tallied Barnes
& Noble or Smashwords closely). I think I have about 80 total that I have
the erights for, so I’m gonna keep putting ‘em up until I run out and have to
write new ones (although I do have some unpublished stories that have run their
course of pro markets and will thus be next in the queue). I also want to start
bundling them into e-collections and POD collections. But right now, I have
five stories in progress to get up in the next 1–2 weeks.
There’s more—there’s
always more—but this is what’s on my plate for the next few weeks.
Are we having fun yet?!
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*My favorite is Seanan McGuire, who makes me head hurt in a groovy and awestruck
way. Scary and inspiring in equal measure. CE Murphy has
posted some doozies, too, and Laura
Anne Gilman is pretty
amazing.
