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lauraanne_gilman ([personal profile] lauraanne_gilman) wrote2009-01-08 09:26 am

three for the writing, one not

First sale of the year: audio rights for "Blow Job Red" to podcaster SFZine. They're still pre-launch, so no idea when it will be available. Listen here for updates.

I'm starting to get antsy about my last unanswered short fiction submission from 2008. Although not superstitious as a rule, I hesitate to ping the editor, but... we're going on three months now. Antsy. Hrm. Wonder if just talking about it is enough to bring on the jinx?
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I finished the outline for MUSTANG last night. This morning I get to read it over and see if there's anything important I left out, then it goes off to madame editrix so she can approve it, and start a Contract Payment in motion. Normally my outlines are more like Google map directions -- accurate until they're suddenly not, and to be read with a casual and forgiving eye. Nocturne is a little more stringent with this -- the editorial director likes to know Exactly What She's Getting. so I have to do a bit more work up-front. Things will still change in the actual writing, of course, but there tend not to be the joyfully exasperating Ah-HAH! moments of plot recognition. Pluses and minuses to that....
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I am informed that my revision notes for THE VINEART WAR should arrive in the next handful of days. I'll be in the corner, fretting. Except here's no time to fret, as I need to get back to work on PACK OF LIES See my head go 'splodey, soon...
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And in the non-writing news, this amused me, in a sad sort of way. Our Geek President. "I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry," Mr. Obama said Wednesday. "They’re going to pry it out of my hands."

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