Finished, I mean.
And *gulp*, submitted to an agent.
Project 1, with the working title “A Company of Rifles: Betan’s Adventures in Branna” is on its way. My first submission is to an agent whose blog I read regularly. It’s probably too much to hope for that the first pitch is a hit, but it’s not like the 50th is really more likely to succeed than the 1st.
So, time to move on. I’ve been working on A Company… for five or six years and if the current draft isn’t good enough then it’s page one rewrite time and at this point, the point where I’m working a shitty job I hate for the same money I was being paid when I started the manuscript, which was before I got a degree in a supposed growth industry (gasp, wheeze), I’d rather work on something new.
That something new is, not even on my project list.
Really? Let me look.
(hum Jeopardy theme)
Shit, it ain’t. It’s the same science fiction setting as Projects 2, 3 and 8 (who what a disaster Project 8 turned out to be). So it’ll be Project 9, working title Space Heist, which is more like an inverted detective story slash techno-thriller. I’m still breaking it down, it’s kinda complicated and I don’t want it to turn into Project 2.
Also, I have decided (hopefully finally) that Project 7 is my next project. I don’t have a working title (at least not one that doesn’t give away the source of the idea) yet, but I’m gonna come up with one because even I can’t keep these project numbers straight.
In other news, Project 5 has been submitted to the Nicholl Fellowship. Yet again. I should just put a line item for that in my budget.
What else, oh, Project 4 is still on submission. I need to send it to the next market on the list.
Tags: crime, fantasy, science fiction, writing
