Okay, so I've been redoing covers over at Venus Press for the past couple of days. Lots of them. It's been fun though. Haven't written much. Haven't worked on the MSRW newsletter either yet - eek I need to write an article for the Editor's Desk section.
Got a rejection from an agent I queried several months ago. Glad she at least sent a letter. I've noticed that some agencies don't contact you if they don't want to take you on. Personally I think that is tacky...if they are that busy, in my opinion, then they can afford to hire someone to mail out standard rejection letters.
No word on the agents I sent queries to last week. I'm too impatient. I'm too impatient with everything I think. Impatient with stupid people. Impatient with lazy people. Impatient with indecisive people. Impatient with people in WALMART. Hell, I'm impatient with myself sometimes when I'm writing.
Haven't had time to work on the character images I want to post here. I'm stilllooking a the too skinny version of Rafferty Jones. LOL Mostly, I've just been working on covers.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
My Japanese Name
I love quizzes and polls...so here's one I recently took...thought I'd share.
Your Japanese name should be
Your Japanese name should be
'Aki'
which means
"autumn".
You can be compared with
autumn, the way the autumn weather changes, is
how your feelings change. You have these mood
swings you can't control; one moment you're
happy, the next you're feeling almost
depressed. You're probably sensitive and
creative.
Which Japanese name fits you best? [females, 9 results + absolutely stunning ANIME pictures!]
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okay screw it
I'm ranting...the rest that I said I was gonna blog about will come...but this morning-in the wee hours - I'm ranting.
As I said before I don't like getting involved in the petty arguments between authors BUT
When do people grow the eff up? GAWD. I have more tolerance for idiots that are young...cause they are still discovering who they are. I remember being 21, 22, and 23 and searching for myself...but if you are still searching at 40, 50, and yes 60 give up, sista, you are just effing LOST.
I'm not against continued growth. Don't get me wrong. We are all changing and growing. But, this mud slinging and juvenile b.s. like teens fighting over the jock in highschool is stupid when those fighting are over age 30. Get A Life. Better yet, get an effing hobby. Hell, get a pool boy named Francois that speaks no English...that ought to keep you occupied!
I want to ask some of talk to some of these women...helllo, you have kids? You have a husband? You have stuff you do every day? Yet you can find nothing better to do with your time but spout idiocy over the internet...and especially writers. I mean we battle every day with the world to be taken seriously because we write romance, and then you behave worse than your children do...and in a public forum. Can someone scream time out?
I just want to slap them silly and say grow up.
Okay, enough ranting. I'm done.
I'm gonna talk about something very important now...my characters. LOL Rafferty Jones is giving me grief. Dang. I should have expected it. She's a pirate for almighty's sake. I promise promise promise, I'm gonna break this b**ch. LOL I'm gonna have a pic of her to put on this blog - even if it kills me...or I kill her.
*giggle* Isn't it funny how we talk about our character like they are real people? Mine are kinda real to me. I mean, Will, from Hired Hands, - there has to be a man out there like that. He was too normal not to be similar to someone. LOL Clumsy oaf but damnably sweet.
Off to work on Rafferty now. Nix planted this seed. She has an awesome desktop image of one of her characters and I'm insanely jealous that she was able to do that so easily. Well I assume it was easy for her. It's difficult as hell for me. Maybe Rafferty is giving me trouble and that means the others will be easy...I dunno.
-Sable Grey
As I said before I don't like getting involved in the petty arguments between authors BUT
When do people grow the eff up? GAWD. I have more tolerance for idiots that are young...cause they are still discovering who they are. I remember being 21, 22, and 23 and searching for myself...but if you are still searching at 40, 50, and yes 60 give up, sista, you are just effing LOST.
I'm not against continued growth. Don't get me wrong. We are all changing and growing. But, this mud slinging and juvenile b.s. like teens fighting over the jock in highschool is stupid when those fighting are over age 30. Get A Life. Better yet, get an effing hobby. Hell, get a pool boy named Francois that speaks no English...that ought to keep you occupied!
I want to ask some of talk to some of these women...helllo, you have kids? You have a husband? You have stuff you do every day? Yet you can find nothing better to do with your time but spout idiocy over the internet...and especially writers. I mean we battle every day with the world to be taken seriously because we write romance, and then you behave worse than your children do...and in a public forum. Can someone scream time out?
I just want to slap them silly and say grow up.
Okay, enough ranting. I'm done.
I'm gonna talk about something very important now...my characters. LOL Rafferty Jones is giving me grief. Dang. I should have expected it. She's a pirate for almighty's sake. I promise promise promise, I'm gonna break this b**ch. LOL I'm gonna have a pic of her to put on this blog - even if it kills me...or I kill her.
*giggle* Isn't it funny how we talk about our character like they are real people? Mine are kinda real to me. I mean, Will, from Hired Hands, - there has to be a man out there like that. He was too normal not to be similar to someone. LOL Clumsy oaf but damnably sweet.
Off to work on Rafferty now. Nix planted this seed. She has an awesome desktop image of one of her characters and I'm insanely jealous that she was able to do that so easily. Well I assume it was easy for her. It's difficult as hell for me. Maybe Rafferty is giving me trouble and that means the others will be easy...I dunno.
-Sable Grey
bloggedy blog blog
So I read the new issue of RWR and there was an awesome article about blogging. Basically, it says that blogging is a good idea as long as the individual author remembers to find their own voice for the blog. Sooooo, I sat down and tried to think of what I really wanted to do with this blog....
Talk about my writing schedule and what's coming up
And share my characters...since that's my favorite part of writing
And let people know about other great books
And then talk about other projects going on
Maybe a lil bit of my personal life
I ramble so much, that I'm sure I can't always stick to topic...but heck maybe ramble IS my voice.
So right now, aside from doing art director stuff, I'm working on project for this blog - that was inspired by a really cool cover artist, Nix Winter, to try an make the characters of my stories using my art programs. I started working on Rafferty Jones last night - when a tree limb fell and took out our cable and I had plenty of time to try to keep myself busy without internet access or cable to watch - and I've got a good start on her but she's not finished yet. I'll post the pic when I'm finished, a bit about her, what book she's in, etc.
I don't know how interesting it will be for readers...but it will be a lot of fun for me. LOL
Also the article said it was best to blog every day or every other day - ugh...that's gonna be hard for me. I've always sucked at journaling. So I'm really gonna try to stick with this and do it right.
No word from the agents yet...lol...I know, I know, it's only been a few days. I'm so impatient. But I did go ahead and schedule another show with Jewel's Way....it will be in either January or February of 2006. That's gonna be so awesome...the interview I did this month was a blast!
I'm so behind on my writing - finally getting the breath to settle down again. I did 20 covers in the first 3 weeks of being art director at Venus Press...and they were damned good cover, if I do say so myself. LOL So everything is settling down now and we have a kick butt art team. A great group of folks...very very talented, and all eager to work. Makes my job much easier.
So now I've got to finish my second book for the anthology I'm writing with Deanna Lee. I want to finish my second book to follow When Darkness Falls, called Chasing Shadows for Venus Press, and I want to finish The Pirate's Gold to submit to Venus Press.
Lots of great stories to write...and I appreciate all of your feedback on the ones I've already written. I don't do it for the money...though money is nice...those emails where you tell me that you enjoyed a story is why I do it. So my stories get out there to the readers.
I really appreciate the emails about how my heroine's overcoming abusive husbands touched you. I hoped that the messages that I work into my stories would reach you and am grateful and happy that they did. :)
-Sable Grey
Talk about my writing schedule and what's coming up
And share my characters...since that's my favorite part of writing
And let people know about other great books
And then talk about other projects going on
Maybe a lil bit of my personal life
I ramble so much, that I'm sure I can't always stick to topic...but heck maybe ramble IS my voice.
So right now, aside from doing art director stuff, I'm working on project for this blog - that was inspired by a really cool cover artist, Nix Winter, to try an make the characters of my stories using my art programs. I started working on Rafferty Jones last night - when a tree limb fell and took out our cable and I had plenty of time to try to keep myself busy without internet access or cable to watch - and I've got a good start on her but she's not finished yet. I'll post the pic when I'm finished, a bit about her, what book she's in, etc.
I don't know how interesting it will be for readers...but it will be a lot of fun for me. LOL
Also the article said it was best to blog every day or every other day - ugh...that's gonna be hard for me. I've always sucked at journaling. So I'm really gonna try to stick with this and do it right.
No word from the agents yet...lol...I know, I know, it's only been a few days. I'm so impatient. But I did go ahead and schedule another show with Jewel's Way....it will be in either January or February of 2006. That's gonna be so awesome...the interview I did this month was a blast!
I'm so behind on my writing - finally getting the breath to settle down again. I did 20 covers in the first 3 weeks of being art director at Venus Press...and they were damned good cover, if I do say so myself. LOL So everything is settling down now and we have a kick butt art team. A great group of folks...very very talented, and all eager to work. Makes my job much easier.
So now I've got to finish my second book for the anthology I'm writing with Deanna Lee. I want to finish my second book to follow When Darkness Falls, called Chasing Shadows for Venus Press, and I want to finish The Pirate's Gold to submit to Venus Press.
Lots of great stories to write...and I appreciate all of your feedback on the ones I've already written. I don't do it for the money...though money is nice...those emails where you tell me that you enjoyed a story is why I do it. So my stories get out there to the readers.
I really appreciate the emails about how my heroine's overcoming abusive husbands touched you. I hoped that the messages that I work into my stories would reach you and am grateful and happy that they did. :)
-Sable Grey
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Agents, confidence, & what's up in my life
Hi all.
A new blog...of mostly whatever I want to talk about and what's important to me. Those of you who visit here from DeviantArt, I'm still going to write in my journal there and at my blog with RWA Online. I just wanted a space for me me me me. LOL
My search for an agent continues. I queried three agencies yesterday that I'm interested in and that seem the kind of folks I'd like to work with. I'm a little picky - okay, I'm a lot picky. Just as the agent has to determine if I would work well them, I feel obligated to do determine the same about the agents before I submit. So I don't just submit to an agency just because the name sounds good or just because its an agency. It's a process for me. I visit their site, do research on them, see who their clients are and visit the client's webpages if they have one. I look around to see what their reputation is. But that's not all...I read the information that agency provides on their sites to determine if what they have to say jives with my own career plans.
I feel that its only a matter of time before my novels are in print. I've two completed right now and two more very close to being finished. So I think I've got a good start on a book deal that an agent might set me up with.
I don't feel I'm conceited because I know my writing is good. I think I'm confident in what I do. Just as a mechanic knows he can fix a car, I know I can write a good historical. I am sure of where my strengths are and I am constantly working to improve areas that are not as strong. I take my writing very seriously. It is NOT a hobby - it is a passion - and now that I am published and earning money, it is also a business.
My top concerns is my obligation to my readers and doing business with publishers in a professional manner that does not jeopardize my integrity, respect for myself or my work, my basic beliefs of what is right and wrong. This does not make me a snob. This makes me someone who knows who I am and someone who is not afraid of sticking to the things that are important to me.
I don't like getting involved in the little cat fights and arguments that I see going on all over the internet between writers. I don't have the patience for it. True, I will speak up and voice my opinion at times and perhaps defend someone I know to have pure intentions but as far as the ongoing mud slinging, I refuse. It is juvenile and a waste of time. I'd much rather be writing and responding to emails from my readers. Oh sure, sometimes I want to ask these writers how old they are and how they manage to get through their daily lives if they behave like that in other aspects of their life - but the truth is you cannot argue with a two year old on a two year old's level and win. They don't operate with the same reasoning and cannot think outside of the scope of their own emotional turmoil. Basically, it's a waste of time and energy. It's best to ignore them until they see that their efforts are in vain and have finished throwing their tantrums.
Instead, I write. And that is working for me. Last month The Nothing But Trouble Bride from Liquid Silver Books and Christy's Ghost from Loose-Id were released. I've recently received contracts from Titan Press for the first two books of my 9 book mainstream historical romance series as well as a contract from the same publisher for a non romance fantasy.
I've also recently been signed on by Venus Press as the art director in their cover art department. I'm the editor of Psyche's Lamp, the newsletter for my local RWA Chapter - Magnolia State Romance Writers. And I'm currently writing an anthology with multi published author (and my best friend), Deanna Lee.
I hope to have an agent's interest by the end of the year and at least on my way to working out a contract with a print publisher for a multi book deal by the end of next year. And I will continue writing sensual romance books for electronic publication and submitting them to Liquid Silver Books, Venus Press, and Loose-Id.
-SG
A new blog...of mostly whatever I want to talk about and what's important to me. Those of you who visit here from DeviantArt, I'm still going to write in my journal there and at my blog with RWA Online. I just wanted a space for me me me me. LOL
My search for an agent continues. I queried three agencies yesterday that I'm interested in and that seem the kind of folks I'd like to work with. I'm a little picky - okay, I'm a lot picky. Just as the agent has to determine if I would work well them, I feel obligated to do determine the same about the agents before I submit. So I don't just submit to an agency just because the name sounds good or just because its an agency. It's a process for me. I visit their site, do research on them, see who their clients are and visit the client's webpages if they have one. I look around to see what their reputation is. But that's not all...I read the information that agency provides on their sites to determine if what they have to say jives with my own career plans.
I feel that its only a matter of time before my novels are in print. I've two completed right now and two more very close to being finished. So I think I've got a good start on a book deal that an agent might set me up with.
I don't feel I'm conceited because I know my writing is good. I think I'm confident in what I do. Just as a mechanic knows he can fix a car, I know I can write a good historical. I am sure of where my strengths are and I am constantly working to improve areas that are not as strong. I take my writing very seriously. It is NOT a hobby - it is a passion - and now that I am published and earning money, it is also a business.
My top concerns is my obligation to my readers and doing business with publishers in a professional manner that does not jeopardize my integrity, respect for myself or my work, my basic beliefs of what is right and wrong. This does not make me a snob. This makes me someone who knows who I am and someone who is not afraid of sticking to the things that are important to me.
I don't like getting involved in the little cat fights and arguments that I see going on all over the internet between writers. I don't have the patience for it. True, I will speak up and voice my opinion at times and perhaps defend someone I know to have pure intentions but as far as the ongoing mud slinging, I refuse. It is juvenile and a waste of time. I'd much rather be writing and responding to emails from my readers. Oh sure, sometimes I want to ask these writers how old they are and how they manage to get through their daily lives if they behave like that in other aspects of their life - but the truth is you cannot argue with a two year old on a two year old's level and win. They don't operate with the same reasoning and cannot think outside of the scope of their own emotional turmoil. Basically, it's a waste of time and energy. It's best to ignore them until they see that their efforts are in vain and have finished throwing their tantrums.
Instead, I write. And that is working for me. Last month The Nothing But Trouble Bride from Liquid Silver Books and Christy's Ghost from Loose-Id were released. I've recently received contracts from Titan Press for the first two books of my 9 book mainstream historical romance series as well as a contract from the same publisher for a non romance fantasy.
I've also recently been signed on by Venus Press as the art director in their cover art department. I'm the editor of Psyche's Lamp, the newsletter for my local RWA Chapter - Magnolia State Romance Writers. And I'm currently writing an anthology with multi published author (and my best friend), Deanna Lee.
I hope to have an agent's interest by the end of the year and at least on my way to working out a contract with a print publisher for a multi book deal by the end of next year. And I will continue writing sensual romance books for electronic publication and submitting them to Liquid Silver Books, Venus Press, and Loose-Id.
-SG
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