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95 000 words and out of my hands. In fact query letters and a fifty pages of manuscript are in the mail and on their way to four different BC publishers. (None, I regret to say, accept email submissions, unlike an increasingly larger number of American publishers).
It am in a good place psychologically. Now I can move on to other things. I have several short stories I’m anxious to start. And best do it before I forget how.
Then there is the marketing of Eta Carinae still to consider. I’m hoping to get a few people to review the novella, thereby—I hope—creating more interest. And perhaps I will offer to send people the audio version of the story (for free) with an online purchase.
Maybe I can even arrange a local book launch? And I am even considering the option of advertising on Facebook. Does this make me sound desperate?
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Finally, there is still my novel Lunatics to consider. It has hung in limbo for too long. I will wait a few more months at most, I think, then will actively pursue the self-publishing option. I fear there is still a prevailing attitude among the writing elite that ‘real’ writers don’t self-publish, but such a notion daily is growing more old-fashioned. It may well be time to get on with it and do it myself!
Next project on the runway: a short story called, “A Question of Gravity”. Stay tuned.