Been away for a while, but it's been productive time. Got rid of
some stumbling blocks that have been preventing me from building a
website, and found a glaring error in my current book that I can fix.
Claudia has been published, again, so now she and I have started a
little book collection of our successes.
I also, as of tonight, put together a query package for Roja and sent
it to an agent. What comes to mind is the moment a few (cough) years
ago when I was young and didn't know how to swim. I was in a pool
with some other naïve kids listening to a nice lady explain how to
not drown when I took a step forward to get some space around me.
The water was clean but not clear, so I didn't know I had been
standing on a raised platform against the side of the pool and
suddenly the cold, heavy water was six inches deeper than I was tall.
I remember treading water, or doing something like it, and realizing
I was suddenly in very deep shit. I've had that same feeling once or
twice since then, but there's nothing like the first time.
Fortunately, I didn't drown, because the nice lady patiently picked
me up and got me back on the platform. I learned how to swim, and
ended up doing my part to teach a brand new generation of naïve kids
how to not drown a few years later. Hitting the send button tonight
was like taking that one extra step all over again. Yep, this is
cold, heavy water, and boy is it deep.
I'm not going to name the agent. The research I've been able to do
clued me in on the incredible amount of BS that already gets flung at
people who do that job, and the last thing I want to do is add to the
pile. Trust me, if things go well people will hear me singing their
praises from the rooftops.
Now? Well it's time to wait. I'll touch base with all those people
who are reading In The Dark for me, catch up on all the reading that
I've fallen behind on, and get back to plugging away on The Red Man
Burning.
It's time to write.
