Exciting News

Today has been a day full of exciting news. One friend of mine, Jayna, received a critique of a chapter she is entering into a contest sponsored by Harlequin. Now critiques can be hard to take, and this one went to a well-published author (many of her books have been published over a period of years by Harlequin). The author agreed to do a critique and returned the chapter to Jayna in a timely manner.

Jayna was so excited. When I saw the critique, I was excited for her. The author had only a few minor adjustments to suggest and had good things to say about the chapter overall. It gave Jayna a real boost to have such a successful author give her a positive review.

Then I went to the East Texas Writers Guild August meeting. During the meeting, I received a phone call from one of my best friends, Elaine. She's also my writing partner on some projects. Elaine had sent off one of her unpublished novels to an editor a couple of months ago. She called to tell me they want her novel and are sending her a contract. It just so happens that last Friday I sent off a recently revised novel that Elaine and I wrote together to the same company. The last time we did this with books to the same company, Elaine received a contract and we received a contract and had books published a couple of months apart.

Now I need to get to thinking about writing a guest blog for Delyn Fisher. My blog will be appearing on Delyn's blog (see the link to the left) on Thursday of this week. Delyn did an interview with me which will appear on her blog on Wednesday of this week. Hope to see you there.

It's been a good day.