Not All Fun Stuff

It’s the weekend, and that’s the most time I have to work on the book and writing projects, but I’m really bummed that I’ve run out of the creative and fun stuff to do.  That’s what weekends are suppose to be made of, right?  Fun stuff?

But I’m left with the stuff I hate, Hate, HATE doing. 

I have to go back to our first book, Silhouette of a Friendship… and deal with the list of publishers again…Yuck!

I’ve tried to get out of it, but there’s nothing I can think of that I can do instead…



I’ve already promised myself that I wasn’t going to work on the second children’s book anymore, until Katherine finishes reading it — and besides, three possible versions of it are quite enough.  I can’t move on with the first children’s book until we get some feedback from our readers.   I can’t go any further on the third children’s book until we work out the problems with the second one.  I’ve gone as far as I can with the teen book.  Katherine has some additions that she wants to include in that one.

So, if I want to feel productive this weekend and work on this project, I’m left with the list of publishers for Silhouette… 

There are a couple of publishers that I can send off emails with query letters and samples, but most of them need mailers and hardcopy versions of the manuscript.  I just don’t have the patience and resources to deal with mailers today. 

There’s one publisher that has irritated me above all others.  This publisher has authors fill out an online form for submitting their ideas.  That would be fine, if we weren’t restricted to only 200 characters — 200 characters — not 200 words, but 200 characters… counting each letter and space.  That’s basically two sentences.  How can I adequately describe our concept in only 2 sentences?!  GGRRRR!!!

Yeah…just another example of why I hate this side of things, but it has to be done…







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