SNOOPY DANCES

I received a contract from Eternal Press yesterday. All excited and can't wait to start the process. Should be exciting. Now I have to set up a real website, join MySpace and etc. Fun and good games. Now if I'd hear back on Agatha Ann.

Names

My new character in search of a plot, has a name. She is Boudicca Andraste Fowler(Ande). Half faerie, half human, dubbed a changeling, she is having great difficulty controlling the unwanted shedding of sparkly faerie dust any time she's stressed or nervous. Her hair is red, hangs to her waist and does the "floaty thing" no matter what. She doesn't want to leave me alone but hasn't told me exactly what she wants yet.

Edits almost done. Can't wait to get Privy sent.

Crunch

The sound in my head as I try to keep down a character who is trying to escape while I'm editing, fast as I can, Privy to Murder. But this gal keeps sneaking around, and she doesn't even have a name yet. What do you have with characters that insistent? Sounds crazy but then, I'm a writer, drawn to murder, mayhem, paranormal and horror. What can I say?

I honestly hope more characters join her along with their world. I've always used reality and so world building could be a rather sticky wicket. Could be fun. Must be urban but probably southern urban. After all, Saving Grace takes place in OKC and she has a scruffy angel running around.

How does anyone else go about world building? I need blueprints or something I think. Well, back to juggling full time work, editing and taming this character, or at least meeting her formally.

Docs and Patients

Danger, Danger Will Robinson-Rant Warning.

Saw a neurologist with my daughter, regarding multiple grand mal seizures. The good thing: he evaluated her meds, decided the Dilantin may cause more harm than good, is being metabolized too quickly in the liver and possibly interfering with the other meds. Also the Lyrica was only at a pain control level, not seizure control level. He's titrating her off Dilantin and onto a larger dose of Lyrica.
The bad thing: He talked about non-epileptic seizures and the need to psychiatric care before he'd been in the room for five minutes on the first visit.
The Ugly thing, he doesn't listen. He treats the patient as if she is 3-yr-old going on one. Rarely answers questions. Talks down. In short, one of the most supercilious pricks I've had the displeasure to meet. If he had his nose any farther in the air, he'd drown in the rain. Luckily, we usually have a summer drought.
It would be good if a physician could actually listen to the patient and pretend to be interested. The uncontrolled seizures are stealing her life. If things don't settle, I will have to go hunting for a center specializing in seizure treatment, no matter where we have to look.

Panic Time

I'm in the middle of a final read-through/edit of Privy to Murder before I send it to Eternal Press. Now it seems to be time for all those doubts. That editor that sits on my shoulder says "What are you thinking. This isn't good enough. Give up before you make a fool of yourself." What if it isn't good? What if it is and you give up before getting started? Risks and gambles, two things I'm not good at. Two things that scare me. But, I will jump in the icy water and pray my swimming is good enough. I keep seeing my cover art on this site along with my friend's books and how cool that would be. Onward and upward.

WOW

I sent the first three chapters of Privy to Murder to Eternal Press yesterday and they requested the complete manuscript this morning. Can't quite grasp that quick a response time. Now I have to do a final edit and see what happens. Also, Samhain publishing is a source I might try if I'm really going with e publishing. Still waiting for a response to Agatha Ann from Bloomingtree. Being a small print press, their response time may be slower. Things could get busy around here.

E Pub

Ther is a brand new e publishing company out there called Eternal Press. They seem to be taking a lot of new writers on. But should we go with E publishing? Should we take a risk on a new company that's only a month old? I'm tempted to try just to see if they like the book, Privy to Murder. But, what if they do and I have to decide whether to go with it or not? All this angst may be about nothing if they look at the first three chapters and decide not only no but heck no, they don't want the book.

Also, I'm more and more tempted to attempt an urban fantasy after I finish the next AA book. All of this will be tempered by work and my daughter's problems which sometimes slows down my writing by simple stress and fatigue.

Right now I just want to go back to CO and write fiction, forget everything else.