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One month. Oh, wow.
Jun. 13th, 2008 11:26 amOne month ago today, we officially sold the first three October Daye books to DAW. Rosemary and Rue, the first, had already been through the editorial wringer over here on my end of things; A Local Habitation, the second, had just started the editing process. (An Artificial Night hadn't even been touched.) One month later, book two is just about ready to be turned in -- the goal is to have the last few tweaks in place by Monday -- while book three is being industriously rewritten. I've even started thinking about working on book four.
It's all starting to feel real. Finally. It's all starting to feel less like the universe pulling some cosmic joke, and like it's something that's really and genuinely happening. It helps that the editing process is frequently painful, frequently grinding, and frequently disrupts my sleep. It's substantially harder to disbelieve something that isn't letting you go to bed.
There are roughly twenty million things still to get done. I mean, Rosemary and Rue hasn't started the editorial process at DAW (which is a whole new ball of wax), my new website hasn't launched yet, and I still need to buy my tickets to New York. There's going to be a lot of work that has to get done before I can actually start saying 'go buy my book' and praying for an audience. I know that. And it doesn't matter, because one month ago today, we sold my first novel.
I am the happiest blonde there is.
It's all starting to feel real. Finally. It's all starting to feel less like the universe pulling some cosmic joke, and like it's something that's really and genuinely happening. It helps that the editing process is frequently painful, frequently grinding, and frequently disrupts my sleep. It's substantially harder to disbelieve something that isn't letting you go to bed.
There are roughly twenty million things still to get done. I mean, Rosemary and Rue hasn't started the editorial process at DAW (which is a whole new ball of wax), my new website hasn't launched yet, and I still need to buy my tickets to New York. There's going to be a lot of work that has to get done before I can actually start saying 'go buy my book' and praying for an audience. I know that. And it doesn't matter, because one month ago today, we sold my first novel.
I am the happiest blonde there is.
