Showing posts with label deadlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deadlines. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
DEADLINE!
I promised my editor and my agent that I'd send the manuscript of And Then You Dye today - and I'm not finished with it. So I'm not submitting an entry in Killer Hobbies today. Apologies all around. I'm not purposely neglecting you and I hope to have something interesting next week.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Deadlines and Life
I have an April 1 deadline looming. It’s for an upcoming Silhouette Nocturne, a sequel to my January release ALPHA WOLF, and involves one of the Alpha Force shapeshifter characters introduced in that story. Great fun to write!
I’ve finished a viable first draft and got some good comments from writing friends who read it. It’s getting there...
At least these days editors want manuscripts to be e-mailed rather than snail-mailed. That means I have until nearly the last minute to get it to New York.
Which is a good thing, since I spent last weekend celebrating birthdays. I also have some other time-consuming things to attend to this week. At least I’ll have this weekend to finish working on the story, and I think it’s close to being ready anyway. But I generally like to use up all the time I’m allotted before sending off a manuscript, just in case something else important occurs to me.
Each new deadline I meet feels like a special accomplishment, whether a hard one or one that I’d no trouble with. I know that some of my fellow Killer Hobbies bloggers have met some especially difficult deadlines lately!
How do you deal with deadlines in your life--whether writing or otherwise?
--Linda
I’ve finished a viable first draft and got some good comments from writing friends who read it. It’s getting there...
At least these days editors want manuscripts to be e-mailed rather than snail-mailed. That means I have until nearly the last minute to get it to New York.
Which is a good thing, since I spent last weekend celebrating birthdays. I also have some other time-consuming things to attend to this week. At least I’ll have this weekend to finish working on the story, and I think it’s close to being ready anyway. But I generally like to use up all the time I’m allotted before sending off a manuscript, just in case something else important occurs to me.
Each new deadline I meet feels like a special accomplishment, whether a hard one or one that I’d no trouble with. I know that some of my fellow Killer Hobbies bloggers have met some especially difficult deadlines lately!
How do you deal with deadlines in your life--whether writing or otherwise?
--Linda
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
CHALLENGE!
I am facing an amazing challenge, the kind that strikes terror into the heart of anyone who has ever faced a deadline. I thought, when I had to do a major re-write of Thai Die, that everything to follow got pushed down the time line a couple of months. That though the original deadline for Blackwork was the end of 2008, it would now be due in February or even March.
Then I was invited to debut Blackwork at a science fiction convention called Gaylaxicon – and you don’t have to be a detective to understand what the focus of that con is. The person running it in 2009 is a good friend of mine, someone I’ve known for probably close to thirty years. And it will be in Minneapolis, a first for this convention. Gaylaxicon will be held October 9 – 11. The reason he wants to debut the novel is that he is a sort of Godfather to Godwin, the gay man who is my sleuth Betsy’s sidekick, mentor, advisor and good friend.
I thought it wouldn’t work, as now (in my mind) the due date for the completion of the manuscript should now be too late for that pub date. To confirm, I asked my editor at Berkley when the pub date for Blackwork might be. Well, she said, we’re talking October 2009. I told Don that it looked good for debuting the novel.
And at the same time I felt a little trickle of fear. It takes time for a novel to go from manuscript to finished product. March, or even February, to October is awfully short a time in the normal course of events. When, I inquired, is the ms due to you? And the reply came: The end of this year.
I’m on Chapter Six. Well, Seven if I split that one long chapter in two.
Part of me is in a mild state of panic – but another part of me is exhilarated by this challenge.
So watch this space! And if anyone has any advice or encouragement to offer, please feel welcome.
The coundown begins now
Then I was invited to debut Blackwork at a science fiction convention called Gaylaxicon – and you don’t have to be a detective to understand what the focus of that con is. The person running it in 2009 is a good friend of mine, someone I’ve known for probably close to thirty years. And it will be in Minneapolis, a first for this convention. Gaylaxicon will be held October 9 – 11. The reason he wants to debut the novel is that he is a sort of Godfather to Godwin, the gay man who is my sleuth Betsy’s sidekick, mentor, advisor and good friend.
I thought it wouldn’t work, as now (in my mind) the due date for the completion of the manuscript should now be too late for that pub date. To confirm, I asked my editor at Berkley when the pub date for Blackwork might be. Well, she said, we’re talking October 2009. I told Don that it looked good for debuting the novel.
And at the same time I felt a little trickle of fear. It takes time for a novel to go from manuscript to finished product. March, or even February, to October is awfully short a time in the normal course of events. When, I inquired, is the ms due to you? And the reply came: The end of this year.
I’m on Chapter Six. Well, Seven if I split that one long chapter in two.
Part of me is in a mild state of panic – but another part of me is exhilarated by this challenge.
So watch this space! And if anyone has any advice or encouragement to offer, please feel welcome.
The coundown begins now
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