win some, lose some...

[lagilman]

Today's 'loss' entry. The editor who was looking at my YA suspense thriller liked it enough to take it to the bosses, but couldn't bring them over to her way of thinking.

Drat.

But so it goes, and off t goes to the next editor on the list.


On the plus side, getting very nice reviews for BRING IT ON, and the arrival of yet another postal-delayed* royalty check. Those always soften the blow just a bit...





*I know not what it is with the mail gnomes, but they seem to want to get their grubby little paws over my money before I do. Everything else gets here on time, but not money...

Comments

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Everywhere else in the country Priority Mail is 2-3 days. But that New York-Chicago run for my agency checks is really problematic (Neuman bringing refund bottles to Michigan?) at a week at least.

Re: Checks in the mail

[lagilman]

Oh, contracts can take forever, too. Just ask anyone who has ever done a deal with Pocket!


And the structuring of advance payments is a post and a half by itself, oy. If there's interest, I can take a shot at it...

Re: Checks in the mail

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, very true! Penguin, too.

You can count this as interest in the structuring of advance payments.

-- Katherine

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

oh, boo.

at least you got paid. :-P

(I'm waiting for All The Checks In The World right now, too)

[lagilman]

Conga-rats to you, btw. B*tch. ;-)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

;-)

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

As a self-employed person, dependent on the sporadic arrival of checks from a variety of clients, I have made it my mission to befriend the gnomes. You think I jest? Today I received a check from a client two weeks before it was due. On Monday I received a check from a client for an invoice they paid in March, for $2,320 (not a trivial amount). They've asked me to consider half of it a bonus and the other half an advance because it would be too "complicated" elsewise. Hee.

There is a cluster of gnomes on the ramp to my front door, adjacent to the thriving bee balm. There's a fisher gnome with a line in the water, on a little platform I installed next to the brook. There's a gnome in a rocking chair in a tree-house in the firefly tree. This household accommodates gnomes. Apparently they're in cahoots with their postal cousins and their gremlin kindred in A/P offices.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Appeasing gnomes . . . this is somehow frightening . . .

I wonder if it works with computer gremlins . . ..