Agent Hunt

Fun times ahead

MeMum actually won a li'l something in the Lotto, and each member of the family syndicate gets a little over $100 bonus. However, Mum doesn't trust the post office to get a letter to anywhere if it has cash in it, so I'm courier for Beloved's Mum's dividend.

What happened to sending a 'Congratulations' type card with said dividend inside? It's not like the post office scours letters for that kind of deal. But then I remember that there's change involved and, like me, MeMum's a stickler for exactness and honesty when we owe people shit.

I'm not posting my vital statistics until something firkin changes. I'm currently holding stable around the 77 Kilo mark [I just dipped below that by 0.1 of a Kilo. Not a reason to celebrate IMHO] and my measurements are stable, too.

Primarily because I'm not making myself do that exercise thing. I am a lump. The end.

I should be all in on the exercise, though. It's a cheap way to warm myself up now that the winter cold is sneaking in. But no, I'd rather sit and be cold and miserable whilst I create stuff or play Minecraft.

I have had to remind myself to do elementary self care via post-it note. Just a little thing on the ensuite mirror to brush my firkin teeth every morning. I'll worry when I need reminders to eat good food. I'm probably overdoing the balsamic strawberries and mascarpone, but it's delicious and I need to keep my fat intake up so ner.

I shall not be sending KFZ to Bujold's agent. It's time I sent Adapting out there to the nice peeps on my list. At least I know how I should be doing a query letter, thanks to one A2B. Adapting is more representative of what I like to write, and I should keep one-off-wonders like KFZ and, alas, Beauties and the Beastly to myself unless someone asks for them.

But I also want to make money out of them, so... what do I do? I need to scratch up another $400 US for cover arts for KFZ if I want to send it out to the world via Lulu. And I already spent $400 US trying to get KFZ represented. Sigh.

I'm an expensive 'Nutter.

One day, this shall all pay for itself. I hope. And maybe pay for a little something-something extra for everyone who's had to put up with my shit for so long.

Ah, such high hopes.

SABLE

For anyone in the crafting arena, or anyone who lives with someone in the crafting arena, also knows about SABLE. For those who don't know, it's an acronym for: Stash Above and Beyond Life Expectancy.

...I happen to have enough earring and beading shit to currently last me a lifetime. So I should very likely make myself sit down and spend an hour or a half hour making earrings for EGDB like I've been gassing about for forever and a week.

I

So much to do

I'm still doing the read-through of Beauties, and aim to get to the halfway point before the end of the day. Each chapter takes fifteen minutes away from other things.

Other things like writing my Instant, or working on the first five hundred words of the new book, Rael. And I haven't even written the nut notes.

They'll evolve as time goes by.

I've always needed nut notes to keep things straight. As I introduce people, I'll take notes.

And everything is

...dagnabbit

Good news: I have found a way to do an efficient read-through of Beauties before I send it off to my dear, dedicated Beta-readers.

Bad news: It sucks balls and takes an age to do.

The method? I get my computer to read my book to me and follow along. Chapter by chapter. I have to take the time to devote myself to this so that my Betas have more to enjoy and less to do. Y'all should be backup to make

Yoiks and Away, I guess.

Before I wanted to write a draft of the very polite letter I sent to the most recent A2B, I thought I'd check in on their website to see what their responses were likely to be like in the first place.

if we are interested in discussing possible representation, we will contact you by email or phone—typically within 6 weeks.

The time limit has run out. They haven't contacted me. So...

I pick another A2B and try again. At least the

Small Progress

It's the first of March, and that means that I have seven more days to live through whilst simultaneously fearing acceptance and rejection. Acceptance means I get money, but I also have the possibility of going on book tours and talking at conventions and meeting fans.

And I have social anxiety.

If I am rejected... well, I have to go through all this AGAIN, and with a different Agent-to-be. Or, as I've been starting to shorten it, A2B. Which means another three

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A 21-post collection

Fun times ahead

SABLE

So much to do

...dagnabbit

Yoiks and Away, I guess.

Small Progress