naomi_jay: (afterlife)
Or rather, AFTERLIFE is, according to this review from Book Goggles!

Clark manages to take a plot that's been done before & not only make it her own, but bring a creative new twist to it.

Yay! It's this kind of review that reminds me Yasmin's story is still not done. She's got at least one more book in her, maybe two. And I want to write Ethan novellas forever because I heart him this much. I could happily play in the Shoregrave world for years, I think. So, must crack the whip on self. This seems as good a time as any to check the Accountability List:

Writing Life (in no particular order)

1. Finish Earthbound for Queer Light anthology - still waiting to hear back on this one.
2. Rewrite Wild for my Fearless Agent. First three chapters must be done by 23rd March. Shouldn't be a problem. Wild is now out on submission. One rejection so far, and my agent and I both feel the ending still needs work, so we'll see.
3. Finish Demonised, an Ethan Banning novella, for submission to Damnation Books - Yep, nailed that sucker. DEMONISED is officially due for publication in March 2011.
4. Start on BAD DOGS, the sequel to SILVER KISS - Yeah... Started it, hated it, destroyed it, started again. But BLOOD HUNT is going very well, I'm really happy with my progress now, and confident I'll have a first draft done by the end of August, which was always my aim.
5. Write Halflife, sequel to AFTERLIFE. I have a rough (very, very rough) plot in mind involving necromancers, witches, demons, and mad monks. Should be fun! However...
6. Write the Cassandra novel for my agent - This one takes precendent for me. Once BLOOD HUNT is done, I'll be focusing on this, so I'm thinking late 2010, early 2011 before I even start working on Halflife.
6. The Queer Gothic anthology is due for release soonish, so I should have edits for Moths forthcoming too. - Still waiting to hear about this one.

There's also a dragon novella floating around somewhere, but that's low down the list of priorities.
naomi_jay: (butterfly on hand)
I'm stupidly smiley and happy this morning. Must be all the glorious sunshine! (And I'm still a little bit giddy from seeing the maned wolf on Saturday - must find a way to work a maned werewolf into a future novel).

Anyway, where are we at? Wild is back with my Fearless Agent, who's re-reading the changes and promises to get back to me soon and send it out on submission (barring any further changes *quakes*). So:

Writing Life (in no particular order)

1. Finish Earthbound for Queer Light anthology - waiting to hear back on this one.
2. Rewrite Wild for my Fearless Agent. First three chapters must be done by 23rd March. Shouldn't be a problem. Actually ended up rewriting the whole second half from scratch, then adding in a further 11k last week to accommodate a few suggestions and questions from my Fearless Agent. Am now sick to death of werewolves. (Nah, not really).
3. Finish Demonised, an Ethan Banning novella, for submission to Damnation Books - this is definitely the next project. Got 13k already down, and really want to finish this off before the end of April (which won't happen, but there is a bank holiday weekend coming up, so we can but try).
4. Start on BAD DOGS, the sequel to SILVER KISS - This is my May project, another reason to finish Demonised as soon as possible.
5. Continue with Afterburn, the sequel to AFTERLIFE. - Yep, still on the list, except I'm changing the title back to Halflife because I decided to steal the original plot for another novel to be written in the future had a rethink on the storyline and came up with a much, much better idea for Yasmin's second adventure.

The Queer Gothic anthology is due for release soonish, so I should have edits for Moths forthcoming too.

Real Life

1. Keep job-hunting! Must be in new job before the summer if possible - Got an interview on Wednesday (hmm, need to tell my boss, actually).
2. Start house-hunting. Must be in new house before the summer. I will not spend another winter in this glorified cowshed - We've got three places to look at this week, and fingers crossed one will be right, because I am just not paying the extra rent on the cowshed. [livejournal.com profile] chaostheory  has already found herself new digs (sob!) which makes me sad for myself but happy for her, because she's going to be saving money and living with awesome people.
naomi_jay: (crawling angel)
Phew! Earthbound has been finished to the best of my ability and send off to the anthology editor.

Earthbound word count

 
12575 / 12575 words. 100% done!

I'm happy with it, but still not sure it's quite right for the anthology. We'll see. That's one item to cross of my accountability list anyway.

Writing Life (in no particular order)

1. Finish Earthbound for Queer Light anthology
2. Rewrite Wild for my Fearless Agent. First three chapters must be done by 23rd March. Shouldn't be a problem.
3. Finish Demonised, an Ethan Banning novella, for submission to Damnation Books.
4. Start on BAD DOGS, the sequel to SILVER KISS.
5. Continue with Afterburn, the sequel to AFTERLIFE.

Real Life

1. Keep job-hunting! Must be in new job before the summer if possible.
2. Start house-hunting. Must be in new house before the summer. I will not spend another winter in this glorified cowshed.

Now, if I could just stop having ideas for more new projects, I can crack on with Wild again...

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