Wednesday, May 11, 2005
So, Kate Seaver is leaving Dorchester to go to Berkely as a Senior Editor. This is wonderful for her and not so wonderful for me. She's a great editor and she'll do well in her position. Sniff. Feeling sorry for self.
Moving on to other news, I have a
preliminary cover for A Darker Crimson. It's fabulous. I love it! I have a page with
a larger image of the cover, but if you're on dial up you might want to look at the other page.
I am continuing to gut The Rake. I've drastically reordered the chapters and yesterday while sitting in the back of the car at my son's soccer practice, came to a chapter that I just thought, oh, ick. How do I fix this? Today I came to the conclusion that I fix it by deleting it. Then, I think I'm left with only the really awesome ones and then, I will get a handle on the heroine and make The Rake what it should be, and more to the point, what I want it to be.
I've been bumping around some fairly radical ideas about how and what I want to write. Historicals? Yes, but not as I've done them, I think. Paranormal? Absolutely. We'll see. But I think it's time I step up to what the writer in me wants to do with the characters and, as Claudia Donovan would say, just freaking do it. Now why would that take me 5 books to figure out? And that, of course, supposes that I have figured it out.
