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RWA Quickie Recap and More

Posted by Jill Myles in Blog - Publishing Stuff - (1 Comments)

Hi all!

I’m back from RWA safe and sound, though I still feel like I’m in recovery mode. I didn’t forget about the contest (never fear!) but I’m going to need the weekend to finish catching up and mentally processing everything.

 

RWA was awesome, as usual. I missed all of the PAN track, almost all of the panels, but I had some really great meetings, caught up with friends, and basically handed a bookmark to anyone that was even remotely interested. The consensus? My covers are smoking hot, and the hero on the second cover might or might not have a baseball in his pants. I’m just saying.

 

I actually got to fly home first class, too! That was a first for me. When I went to check in with the airline, a message popped up on the screen. “Would you like to upgrade to first class for $135?”  This is like asking, “Would you like a free cookie with your frappucino?” or “Would you like a two-book contract instead of just one?” Total no brainer. Naturally, I said yes! So I got into my fancy first-class seat and…what a difference! Leg room galore, a blanket to keep me warm, and a nice little table separating me from my seatmate. There were even earphones, a TV, and breakfast. Unfortunately, I missed all of that since I totally passed out and fell asleep before the plane had even left the dock.

 

As soon as I got home…copyedits on book two were waiting for me! So I finished those…and went back to work, where my boss said “Oh good! You’re back! Here’s three projects!”

 

Story of my life. J So I’ve been a bit swamped. But! I am trying to dig my way out. I’m planning on a few more zombie fairy tales within the next month, and as long as I have publisher permission, I’m going to serialize the dinosaurs-conquistadors-Bermuda-Triangle romance. I’m thinking one chapter a week until it’s done, but we’ll see how much editing it needs.

 

So that’s the not so exciting, tl;dr update of my life. I’ll be back on Monday or so with the contest. Trying to decide if I want to give away signed books that I snagged at RWA or an Amazon gift certificate. Thoughts?

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I am at RWA this week!

Posted by Jill Myles in Blog - Publishing Stuff - (2 Comments)

I will be at RWA this week. I'm not taking a laptop, so I won't be blogging, but I will be Twittering and occasionally posting pictures when I remember.

Also! I have these:

Rack cards!

Rack cards!

Rack cards and bookmarks! So if you want to look at my cover art, be sure and check the Goody Room, or flag me down (I plan on carrying plenty.

Also, if you get a bookmark or rack card, SAVE IT. I'm going to hold a contest when I get back, and you will need to answer the following question: How many man-nipples are on the bookmark/rack card? Fabulous prizes await.

Have fun this week!

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Permission to write

Posted by Jill Myles in Blog - Writing - (1 Comments)

Granted!

(At least to myself)

After I finish my novella (which has picked up, much to my delight), I am giving myself permission to go back to the Crackhead Project. Because I read through it last night and I still want to work on it (and love it and hug it and possibly call it George).

It's amazing how freeing it feels to give myself permission to work on blow-off projects. Well, that, and working on a project every day exponentially increases the love you have for it.

I'm expecting my promo bookmarks in any day now. They're arriving just in time for RWA, and I will be carting them around by the handful while at conference.

If you want to see my terrific cover art, this is the ONLY way to do it (at least for a few weeks). So if you want a bookmark, just ask me! And keep it at hand for after RWA, because I intend to have a contest where you can win something impressive. Like lots of free books, or a gift certificate, or maybe even an ipod.

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When You’re Not Writing…

Posted by Jill Myles in Blog - Writing - (3 Comments)

...what do you write about?

I started this journal because I wanted to keep myself honest about the writing. And for a while there, when I was writing every day, I was journaling every day with metrics and snippets and details and life was great. I haven't done metrics a lot lately, mostly because they'd read like this:

Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 0
Thursday: Does paying my bills online count?
Friday: 0

You see the drill. No darlings, no snippets, only the occasional emo angsting on Twitter. I haven't been going out and doing exciting stuff, I've just been sleeping and working, sleeping and working. Occasionally winding down with some X-box 360. Very little reading. Little to no writing.

I'm in the nebulous 'between' stage again, and we hates it, preciousss. For a variety of reasons, I'm holding off on new projects and am working on completing an old one that's about 75% done. You know how it is with old projects. They're like leftovers. They loiter in the back of your fridge like the virtuous, stockpiled-for-later things that they are, and you tell yourself "I'm going to eat that tomorrow!" Except when tomorrow gets here and all you have staring back at you is leftovers, you opt for pizza delivery (or the new manuscript) instead.

I *KNOW*. I do this with manuscripts all the time. "I'll come back to this one later! No problem!"

Except it IS a problem when it turns into leftovers. Still, I am being virtuous and slowly working my way through it, even if it is by small spoonfuls. I'm hoping April provides a little more excitement and guidance, but I think it's going to be a slow burn until the beginning of summer. We'll see. In the meantime, I am debating what to do with said story when I am done with it, since it looks like it will only be about 55k or so, max. And kind of nerdy. Romantic, but nerdy.

But who cares about all that, right? Did you see that Meljean Brook's awesome novella, "Thicker Than Blood" in the FIRST BLOOD anthology has been nominated for a RITA Award? The only paranormal novella - I'm so excited for her and I hope she wins! I absolutely loved this story.

Also nominated? Roxanne St. Claire’s excellent NOW YOU DIE and Nalini Singh’s MINE TO POSSESS.

Congrats to all the RITA nominations. :)

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