Christmas Rejection....sort of

Well, I've been waiting 9 months for a response to my submission with Angry Robot publishing. Today, I got my answer.

A rejection...sort of.

They liked it, but they thought it felt more like a YA novel than an adult novel. So they passed on my manuscript to their new imprint, Strange Chemistry.

So both good news and bad news today.  Which means more waiting for me.

Operation Awesome: New YA Publisher: Strange Chemistry

Operation Awesome: New YA Publisher: Strange Chemistry: A while back, I wrote about my submission to the publisher, Angry Robot. They had an open door month a while back, and I was able to climb...

Painting Dragons

Something I've noticed that happens every time this year, is that traffic increases to both my face painting website and to my blog. The trending topic always has to do with face painting. It makes sense. People are trying to figure out stuff to do for Halloween. And because my face painting business is called "The Painted Dragon", you can see that I get a lot of search hits for "face painting dragon".

The funny thing is...that I don't think I have a dragon on my website...or here. So for those of you searching, I'm giving you what you are looking for.

A dragon.

Happy Halloween!

Friday Funnies

Operation Awesome: The Semicolon

Operation Awesome: The Semicolon: I had a meeting with my local writing group the other night, and we had a discussion on the use of a semicolon. Now, back in the early days ...

Friday Funnies

Friday Funnies