Whoa people...are you plumb wore out from the fantastic week of Beta Blogging??? I am so, so happy Sarah (it was all her idea, btw) and I decided to do the Beta Week. Hopefully you learned more about me, her, and maybe learned some beta tips. Who knows? But it was great week!!
Now, on to the regular Friday update! Let's get this show movin'
1. First I need to say: Alleged Author...you are brilliant!! Remember last Friday when I mentioned the title to my current WIP can't be used because it's already the name of a YA book? Well, Alleged gave me the suggestion to use the original title and then add a bit. Make sense? Probably not, but this is what the books are going to be call now based on that suggestion:
Book #1: All American Girl - Years Past
Book #2: All American Boy - The Fight
Book #3: All American Dream - The Triumph
I will officially LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER Alleged Author!!!!! Thank you!
2. I screwed the pooch peeps. BTTB is being queried. All the queries are out, literally. I can't send anymore. Shame on me.
Remember how we are told to send out five at a time to check responses to see if we need to tweak anything? Sigh. I didn't listen. I was so excited about finally be able to do it, I sent out all the remaining queries I could in these past three weeks. Plus, I needed to get out of this query phrase so I could focus on something else. It's been a serious stress and distraction to my writing.
Then I realized a fatal mistake I might've made. I won't talk about it here, but just know I shot myself in the foot. And I didn't noticed until it was too late. And I can't do anything to change it. I've queried all the RWA approved agents as of yesterday. I'm done and waiting for all the "R's". Yuck. My bad. My really, really, really bad.
Learn a lesson here. Don't do this.
*Sigh* So much for this book.
All right - moving on to something more positive!
3. Sarah still has her 8 partials/full ms's out. She's starting to twitch nervously because some of them are past the deadline when agents normally get back to the writers. I'm thinking that's good news!!! Here's my super smile for her ;-)))))
4. I've still got a partial out to publisher for my short romance. And I actually got a partial request from my batch of queries for BTTB. I sent it out yesterday. Don't get too excited. Remember that fatal mistake I told you about above? Yeah, it really is that bad.
5. After today, the blog will be taking a hiatus, for at least two weeks. SORRY! It's time for me to focus (and finish) AAG and my daughters book. I have promised myself that I will not blog until these two stories are done. Hopefully it won't take more than two weeks, cuz I'll miss you all like crazy!
That's it for now. Hope you enjoyed Beta week! I'll keep all your blogs in my thoughts, forcing myself to not navigate to their pages so I can finish up my wip!
Enjoy your weekend! I'm starting my engine, ready for my muse to take control the next two weeks! Whoo hoo!
~JD
Now, on to the regular Friday update! Let's get this show movin'
1. First I need to say: Alleged Author...you are brilliant!! Remember last Friday when I mentioned the title to my current WIP can't be used because it's already the name of a YA book? Well, Alleged gave me the suggestion to use the original title and then add a bit. Make sense? Probably not, but this is what the books are going to be call now based on that suggestion:
Book #1: All American Girl - Years Past
Book #2: All American Boy - The Fight
Book #3: All American Dream - The Triumph
I will officially LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER Alleged Author!!!!! Thank you!
2. I screwed the pooch peeps. BTTB is being queried. All the queries are out, literally. I can't send anymore. Shame on me.
Remember how we are told to send out five at a time to check responses to see if we need to tweak anything? Sigh. I didn't listen. I was so excited about finally be able to do it, I sent out all the remaining queries I could in these past three weeks. Plus, I needed to get out of this query phrase so I could focus on something else. It's been a serious stress and distraction to my writing.
Then I realized a fatal mistake I might've made. I won't talk about it here, but just know I shot myself in the foot. And I didn't noticed until it was too late. And I can't do anything to change it. I've queried all the RWA approved agents as of yesterday. I'm done and waiting for all the "R's". Yuck. My bad. My really, really, really bad.
Learn a lesson here. Don't do this.
*Sigh* So much for this book.
All right - moving on to something more positive!
3. Sarah still has her 8 partials/full ms's out. She's starting to twitch nervously because some of them are past the deadline when agents normally get back to the writers. I'm thinking that's good news!!! Here's my super smile for her ;-)))))
4. I've still got a partial out to publisher for my short romance. And I actually got a partial request from my batch of queries for BTTB. I sent it out yesterday. Don't get too excited. Remember that fatal mistake I told you about above? Yeah, it really is that bad.
5. After today, the blog will be taking a hiatus, for at least two weeks. SORRY! It's time for me to focus (and finish) AAG and my daughters book. I have promised myself that I will not blog until these two stories are done. Hopefully it won't take more than two weeks, cuz I'll miss you all like crazy!
That's it for now. Hope you enjoyed Beta week! I'll keep all your blogs in my thoughts, forcing myself to not navigate to their pages so I can finish up my wip!
Enjoy your weekend! I'm starting my engine, ready for my muse to take control the next two weeks! Whoo hoo!
~JD
23 comments:
Justine you will be missed for that time but I understand what you have to do!!! Good Luck with everything and I hope you make a few visits back to blog to give us some love!
Great tips this week, very helpful after I'm done with my first draft of my newest WIP I'll be using your advice with revisions... Ahh scary!!!
Sorry about your fatal mistake, hopefully you can get things ironed out soon enough!!
GO SARAH!!!!
Best of luck with your hiatus!! Don't worry about the queries. It's understandable. Having so much to focus on interrupts our creative juices. Have fun writing.
This morning, I just mentioned your beta series in my post.
I'm sorry about the fatal mistake. :( Are you sure it's something another agent won't look past or give your the opportunity to fix? And even so, don't give up on the book. If the mistake is fixable, then change it and try to get the book with a smaller publisher or good e-publisher like Carina/Samhain/Wild Rose Press.
I've had trouble in the past doing the five queries at time thing too. Patience is not my virtue and those darn things take so long to get back (if you even get a response). It's like torture sending out so few in a batch.
I have to go back and catch up on the beta posts this weekend. I just didn't have time to delve into them this week.
I hope you're query doesn't go as badly as you seem to be expecting. I don't know if this is regards to what we Twittered about. Maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised?! Keep the faith, girl!
I'll miss you, but completely understand needing the hiatus. We'll keep the fireplace going for you!
hi miss justine! im gonna miss you big time for sure.i hope you could get done what you want to get done. make sure you take a little time to have some fun and do nice stuff for you. cant wait to hear all the news when you get back.
...hugs from lenny
What happened? Maybe its not as bad as you think!? I've sent out mad querries before and then realised I made a boo boo and thought it was a lost cause only to recieve a request later. You never know- don't give up all hope on the batch!
Are you writing a book for your daughter? If yes, that's wonderful. What a legacy. I'm doing a book for my son, but by the time I finish it, he'll be an adult...hmmm.
CD
Tracy - yes, it is. I can hope that I'll be pleasantly surprised. Only time will tell now. I will remember this lesson in the future though! ;-)
Thank you all for your positive comments about my screw-up. LoL.
~JD
Good luck with the unplug, Justine!! Sometimes, that's the only way to get it done. And here's to hoping that mess-up wasn't too bad. Fingas crossed for you, chica! Enjoy the time away!!
You're... you... leaving me??? FOR TWO WEEKS???
Oh, the horror! The angst!
The trepidation!
The lack of perk in my life!
I'm not sure I can forgive this cruel abandonment.
I might need a cookie.
Thank you for the Beta week! I really enjoyed your and Sarah's posts, and have learned a lot from them.
I'm sorry about your query mistake; I hope it will still yield good results. I'm crossing my fingers for both you and Sarah!
I loved Beta week - thank you! But don't go, don't gooooooo... OK, go on, then. But make sure you come back in two weeks, like you promised!
Good luck with the writing and the querying. Fingers crossed!
I hope the hiatus is productive for you. You will be missed!
BTW...I know you are on hiatus, but I have something for you at my place today. :)
Awww...I was happy to help. Congrats on the partial (even with the mistake you won't specify)!
Thanks for the blog visit and enjoy your hiatus! I think we all need one from time to time to force ourselves to catch up! :-)
Hope your muse and you have fun! You'll be missed :) And sending out all my queries at once is sooo something I would do...Hope it turns up something good for you.
I loved beta week, it was so informative and helpful!
Good luck on your hiatus!!!! I should probably do one soon, it's just so darn hard to tear myself away :). We'll miss you!
Good luck on writing.
Happy hiatus to you
happy hiatus to you
May you get some writing doooooone.
Happy hiatus to you...
:)
Be blessed. Be a blessing.
Don't screw around with your time, you only have so much...
DJ GlenMC
Wow! I'm inspired! You've got so many books out for querying. Good luck!! And happy hiatus writing! ;)
Enjoy your blog hiatus! I hope you get some awesome writing done. (and keep the hope alive - we always judge our mistakes to be worse than they really are). :)
Sorry I'm so late to this post but we will miss you! Enjoy your break though.
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