Nocturne Bites Pitch Contest Winners have been announced!

and I'm not among them...

I'm actually fine with it - it was a great experience, and a good opportunity to polish my skills.
And now, I have a little longer to play with my ms before I send it off to the NY slush pile...

Huuuge congrats to all of the winners, though. All seven of them (there were 60 entries).

And wow to Ann Leslie Tuttle for being so quick about chosing - must have been a mammoth task...

Didn't think I'd make it...

The last Bite I wrote took me over four months. It's in NY now...

The one I've just 'the end'ed took me a little over three weeks. Got a late start. Egad. Stressfest. But I had a lot of fun writing it.

I sent my pitch in yesterday.

Thanks to Anna for looking over the ms (love her work..), and good luck to everyone who is pitching.

Tired now. Can I go to sleep at two-thirty in the afternoon? Sure I can.

Oh wait, there are small children around who would love to fend for themselves, but probably shouldn't. There was a hair-cutting episode yesterday, that I could have stopped if I hadn't been busy pitching...

We await the finalists who will be announced on April 10th... In the meantime, revisions (and a corrective trip to the hairdresser....)

E x

Whipping up the WIP...

I love Anna Hackett.

And not because she writes very excellent stories (I have read the draft of one, and it rockED. Y'all get to buy one in July - 'Savage Dragon' ).

But because she is a very excellent CP. I can feel a girl crush coming on... .

I had come to a standstill on my Bites WIP.

I hated something, lost enthusiasm and fell into a dirty great mud-filled rut with big spikes in the bottom, like a tiger pit.

Anna made a few suggestions based on my blurb and a shaky synopsis - saw things I didn't/forgot to/was ignoring. I bounced an idea or two off her - and voila! WIP back on track...

So, thanks Anna. You are a rock chick.

What are your experiences with CP's?

GTG and write... E x

elove whispers, "I sent it in."

OH MY GAWD!
Pour me a drink, I did it.
I send that manuscript in.
Egad, who ever would have thought it would take me such a long time. I have got to learn to do this better, because I can't spare the time not to.

Oh, and my poor little ms. I bludgeoned it. Not to death - in fact, it looks better - but I ripped the original piece limb from limb. Already, I think I'm a better writer for it. Lordy, I hope so.

I am sorry to my three CP's (Rach, Neoindra, Anna Hackett - "Savage Dragon' debut coming out for Nocturne Bites in July - yay!), who had to read the piffle that was my ms a few months ago. I resolve, here and now, to make it better for you next time *g*.

I cannot WAIT to get into project three - two is on the backburner, because I'm just too dang excited about three - I want to pitch this one online in a month.

Hubba hubby says I have to go to bed. Herbert Hooper the Party Pooper.

E x

((Neo)) - Don't. Keep at it...