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And Away It Goes

4/7/2018

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Good morning, Readers!
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And so it begins.  The long, long road of barbs and knives and crushing stones of disappointment.  Soldier is at last out on submission.  I submitted to only two, both agents, one in the UK and one in the USA.  I've met the agent from the States, and he seems like a pretty awesome dude.  I think we'd get on in a working relationship.

I have not met the agent in the UK, but his bio on the agency website seemed to make Soldier and, by extension, The Great Man a fabulous fit.

I'm hopeful, but also quite jaded.  I'm fully expecting a, "No, thank you" from both of these agents.

Both agencies have a policy of "if you don't hear from us in eight weeks, that's a no."  Eight weeks.  So I'm just going to ignore the submissions process for those eight weeks and get started on writing again... though I still haven't set my mind on which of the two sequels I have to write will be the first written.  I may just do them both concurrently.  We'll see.

Thus, today's plan is to start the brief plotting that I do... Which is actually to say that I write the one sentence note on the endings of these sequels.  I say that, but the prologue for the next book in The Great Man (currently titled Outcast) is making itself known as I write this.  So that's probably the book I'm going with for now.

That said (there's a lot of this), I have a few scenes from the next of the Avalon series that are screaming to be written.

WHY, BRAIN?! WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME SO?

The point is, I need to get writing.  I'm actually pretty excited about having two stories to write.  That means if ever I get stuck on one story, I can drop it for a bit and work on the other.  Hopefully by the time I go back to the first, my sub-conscience will have ironed out whatever kink had me stalling in the first place.

Did that even make sense? I didn't sleep well last night for some reason, and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.  I'm pretty sure my fingers are typing out words...

Right, I have to go.

There is work to be done.

Ciao!
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