three for the writing, one not

[lagilman]

First sale of the year: audio rights for "Blow Job Red" to podcaster SFZine. They're still pre-launch, so no idea when it will be available. Listen here for updates.

I'm starting to get antsy about my last unanswered short fiction submission from 2008. Although not superstitious as a rule, I hesitate to ping the editor, but... we're going on three months now. Antsy. Hrm. Wonder if just talking about it is enough to bring on the jinx?
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I finished the outline for MUSTANG last night. This morning I get to read it over and see if there's anything important I left out, then it goes off to madame editrix so she can approve it, and start a Contract Payment in motion. Normally my outlines are more like Google map directions -- accurate until they're suddenly not, and to be read with a casual and forgiving eye. Nocturne is a little more stringent with this -- the editorial director likes to know Exactly What She's Getting. so I have to do a bit more work up-front. Things will still change in the actual writing, of course, but there tend not to be the joyfully exasperating Ah-HAH! moments of plot recognition. Pluses and minuses to that....
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I am informed that my revision notes for THE VINEART WAR should arrive in the next handful of days. I'll be in the corner, fretting. Except here's no time to fret, as I need to get back to work on PACK OF LIES See my head go 'splodey, soon...
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And in the non-writing news, this amused me, in a sad sort of way. Our Geek President. "I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry," Mr. Obama said Wednesday. "They’re going to pry it out of my hands."

Comments

[vincam.livejournal.com]

I love the way people keep calling him "president" and leave off the "elect" part. Even the folks on CNN have to correct themselves frequently. Wishful thinking that the inauguration could have been moved up to the day after the election. They're not the only ones counting the days and hoping Bush won't let the door hit his ass on the way out.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

I understand his hesitation to let go of his Blackberry and certainly I appreciate it. At the same time, for one thing, it requires GPS functionality to work, which would give potential assassins and terrorists a leg up on locating him. For another, his e-mail would be too easy to hack, sent from a Blackberry. For his own safety and for the nation's security, I must regretfully support the effort to pry it out of his grasp. But he'll go through withdrawal--no question about that.

[lagilman]

The sad thing about this, tho, is that he's holding onto it as the last-gasp connection to his friends outside the Beltway -- his final tie to "normality." I hope he find some hack around this isolation, because it's clearly important to him to maintain those ties -- and important to the rest of us, that he remember the world outside the White House....

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Although not superstitious as a rule, I hesitate to ping the editor, but... we're going on three months now.

Hee. I chuckle, because the one I just sold came in at eight months. *g*

[lagilman]

Yeah, I'm not going to start whinging until at least 6 months in. But this editor usually gets back to me within 3 months with an "I'm reading, I swear, soon...," so....

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*nodnod*

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

On the short story editor, depends on the editor. One in particular is notorious for not even looking at submissions until they've cooled on her desk for 6-9 months. Another editor prides himself on a fast turn around rejects in 2-3 weeks. Acceptances in under 4 weeks.

Those are the two extremes. 120 days deserves a ping on short stuff.

[lagilman]

Oh, I know -- am Old if Not Prolific Hand at this, and [as commented on upstream] know this particular editor's Ways and Wherefores. But it's my sole outstanding submission, so noted it in passing to go with the acceptance.