We're Working On It

As some of you may remember, I submitted a query for Lottery Odds a while back to Harlequin's HQN publishing line as a contemporary romance. I've gotten a response. The editor liked the premise of the story, but the sticking point right now is that it is a little short... see, the normal HQN romance usually runs at anywhere from 90,000 to 110,000 words. Lottery Odds clocks in at a grand total of:

67,814 words.

So all I have to do is come up with, oh, about 22,000 words and they'd be more than happy to take a look at the manuscript itself.

(pulls on hair, sticks toes in mouth)

Well, nobody ever said this racket was easy, right? Still, PROGRESS! I now have a definite goal to work toward, so once I figure out how to get another seven chapters into the manuscript, I will totally be in business. There is also the option of submitting it to another imprint line of Harlequin that doesn't require such a high word count, so I will check that out as well.

Not a bad notification to get while on vacation, eh?

Frame Of Mind

Since I don't really have any impetus to work on new material at the moment, I have gone back into Editorial Mode. Right now I am doing the edits for Lottery Odds, because it's the only other torpedo I currently have in the water besides Salvation and at some point, it'll most likely need to be sent out again. As it clocks in at just under 68,000 words, that means the dread demon named ADDITIONAL MATERIAL NEEDED is once again rearing its ugly head.

The technical side of the business is so much less fun that the creative one is.