No news on any of the submissions or the YA agent contest, but it’s early still.

I did start editing the PURE in earnest, opting to tackle one of my well-known and widely documented weaknesses–overuse of “that”.  Word’s find feature is my friend.

Yesterday and today, I’ve been writing like crazy to complete a 5k to 10k naughty Christmas story for Evernight.  Space is limited so time is critical.  I hope to finish it tonight.

Lovely news from Evernight in the form of the cover for the Midnight Seduction anthology.  My alter-ego will have a short story in this Halloween-themed compilation.  I really liked seeing my name on the cover and the photo and effects used were awesome.  I’m proud to have my name on it.  Hopefully I’ll still be proud to have my story inside it when it’s released.

I have lots of quality writing time between now and the next report as the men in my family are off doing “men” stuff, leaving me and the only other female, our goldendoodle Bella, and our 19-yr old senile cat on our own.  I watched a chick flick On Demand last night.  Heh-heh.  Bella and I loved it.

My cumulative statistics are on my ROW80-3 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports.  Give them some encouragement too.

Great week for me so far!

I announced on Monday that my novel, The PURE, has been picked up by J Taylor Publishing for an April 2012 release!!! (see prior blog post for more details)

Last night, I submitted my superhero novella to Samhain Publishing.

I stumbled across a YA pitch contest open to the first 50 commenters on the blog so I figured, what the hell, and posted a one sentence blurb crafted in two minutes and my first 250 words.  Low expectations on that one but you never know.

The steampunk story publisher A (from whom I withdrew my story) emailed back and said it was a good story and they wished me well to find a new home for it.  I hope so.  Publisher B has had it a few days.  Cross your fingers I made the right choice to pull it and try to place it elsewhere.

So, I’ve updated my goals and added two new ones:  Edit The PURE per my publisher’s guidelines AND write a Christmas short story for possible submission to Evernight.

Tonight, I think I’ll do NO writing or editing AT ALL!  Just watch television and read.  I think I deserve a short break if only for one night.

My cumulative statistics are on my ROW80-3 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports.  Give them some encouragement too.