we will hurt you until you thank us

Ah, deep tissue massage. Because every now and then we need to remember how layered the meat puppet really is, and what it moves like when it's happy. *prrrrs* But now I smell like BioFreeze, and the cats are confused.
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And, because if two people ask, odds are more of you are interested...

( The timeline of the deal, as reconstructed from my notes and e-mails: )

Although I started working on the ideas a year previous, the clock really started in November. So, from first option submission to deal, it took three months almost exactly. Of those three months, I spent a month sure I'd never sell anything ever again, and a week knowing I would but not what the specifics would be. Ah, the wonderful certainty of a writer's life...


And now back to the revisions and whatnot, to keep the machine rolling!