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30 November 09

I've been breaking my neck to get a story ready for submission before heading to Southland for an early "Xmas" get together with family. However Maggie's email advising she will be out of her office for a couple of weeks due to losing her mother means I can breath a little easier now. I won't even take my laptop with me, now. I'm going to forget writing for a couple of weeks and enjoy being with my extended family.

13 November 09

I'm not making the same mistake again. Learning I could have submitted another story while editing a ms caused me to lose months. So I have emailed Cindy Hwang (for the fourth time) and told her if I hear nothing within 7 days about my submission, I will assume she is not interested and I will be submitting it elsewhere. Now I have found a publisher who doesn't take years to respond to a submission, I've decided I am no longer sitting around hoping for a positive response for what amounts to years. My editor at The Wild Rose Press has already expressed interest in reading this story, so a couple of weeks to "convert" it into the format they require - and do some extra fine tuning taking into account all the amazing things I've learnt from Maggie, and I'll be emailing it off. My current WIP you might ask? yes well, that might have to wait until next year.

5 November 09

After a steady start with the BI50 routine I have totally given up. My WIP is filed away under heaps of edits and I have accepted I'm unlikely to do any more of this story until I get through some work with my editor. However, I feel the 35K words I have managed to achieve has given me a good foundation to continue with later in the year. I am enjoying the buzz I get every time I see my editor's name in my in-box and am very keen to get my teeth into working on my story with her. My bouncing emails from the BI50 site, while annoying, had little to do with my lack of contribution.