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Year in Review, Part 1
I've been trying to sit down and reflect on what happened this year and how I can do better, but man - I can't even remember what happened last month, let alone last January. So I'm going to spend a few days digging through photos and (*sigh*) Twitter posts to see if I can't re-assemble this year. Because, like, I know stuff happened.
...right?
January
It was cold and it was clear, as far as I can tell. I spent most of January in the edit trenches, trying to fix Book 2. I turned Book 1 in officially in December, so I could finally focus on book 2 edits.
According to my other blog, it looks like I finished edits on book 2 mid-January and shipped them off to my editor. I then turned my attention to trying to write book 3.
I also went to ConFusion in Detroit. This was my first time attending and I brought both Lady Jr and Dr Lady along, which was an excellent, if occasional frustrating, decision. Lady Jr was still learning how to walk, so she could kind of toddle if she held your hands and of course that's all she wanted to do. I have some fond memories of walking up and down the mostly empty occasionally full hallway with her, people smiling and encouraging. Cherie Priest thought she was cute af and that might have just been the highlight of my month.
I also got to meet two of my agent sibs at that con, which was great, because people, I still desperately need people.
I re-upped for another six months of punching class in January as well, because I'd finally broken through from bumbling newb to semi-confident newb. I applied everything I learned from punching class to writing book 3, but it was increasingly difficult to get Lady Jr fed, washed, and in bed before I headed out. Still, I needed to get out of the house and meet people, so I kept going.
February
This was... a month. A lot of really exciting firsts, publishing-wise. I received my first blurb, which I'd had no idea was coming. It kinda threw me through a loop, ngl. I was shaking pretty hard and the crash was intense. I'm so glad getting reviews has become a little more mellow since then.
I also received several shirtless photos of models on Valentine's Day because my editor was either lowkey trolling me or seriously didn't notice what day it was. That was probably the happiest moment in the whole cover... thing. But the rest of the cover thing didn't happen until later, so -
We got way too much snow in February. It just kept coming. I've got pictures of at least a foot and a half of the stuff, and yet I think school was only canceled once.
I mean lookit all this stuff:
I apparently gave up on writing book 3 for a while to go back and work on the novella. But I did pick it up again before the end of February with only minimal gnashing of teeth.
Hmm, looking back, February was probably the happiest and most exciting publishing-wise.
...right?
January
It was cold and it was clear, as far as I can tell. I spent most of January in the edit trenches, trying to fix Book 2. I turned Book 1 in officially in December, so I could finally focus on book 2 edits.
According to my other blog, it looks like I finished edits on book 2 mid-January and shipped them off to my editor. I then turned my attention to trying to write book 3.
I also went to ConFusion in Detroit. This was my first time attending and I brought both Lady Jr and Dr Lady along, which was an excellent, if occasional frustrating, decision. Lady Jr was still learning how to walk, so she could kind of toddle if she held your hands and of course that's all she wanted to do. I have some fond memories of walking up and down the mostly empty occasionally full hallway with her, people smiling and encouraging. Cherie Priest thought she was cute af and that might have just been the highlight of my month.
I also got to meet two of my agent sibs at that con, which was great, because people, I still desperately need people.
I re-upped for another six months of punching class in January as well, because I'd finally broken through from bumbling newb to semi-confident newb. I applied everything I learned from punching class to writing book 3, but it was increasingly difficult to get Lady Jr fed, washed, and in bed before I headed out. Still, I needed to get out of the house and meet people, so I kept going.
February
This was... a month. A lot of really exciting firsts, publishing-wise. I received my first blurb, which I'd had no idea was coming. It kinda threw me through a loop, ngl. I was shaking pretty hard and the crash was intense. I'm so glad getting reviews has become a little more mellow since then.
I also received several shirtless photos of models on Valentine's Day because my editor was either lowkey trolling me or seriously didn't notice what day it was. That was probably the happiest moment in the whole cover... thing. But the rest of the cover thing didn't happen until later, so -
We got way too much snow in February. It just kept coming. I've got pictures of at least a foot and a half of the stuff, and yet I think school was only canceled once.
I mean lookit all this stuff:
I apparently gave up on writing book 3 for a while to go back and work on the novella. But I did pick it up again before the end of February with only minimal gnashing of teeth.
Hmm, looking back, February was probably the happiest and most exciting publishing-wise.