THE WEEKLY BREW: Down With The Sickness

I feel like I’ve had one ailment or another since the beginning of the year, which doesn’t bode well for my various projects.

I’m literally one chapter away from the final final FINAL draft of The Bone Key sequel. One chapter that through 3 big revisions and multiple smaller ones…is still at Zero Draft. I’m not sure why I’m avoiding writing the last chapter. Is it self-sabotage? Or just my way of delaying the end of this adventure? Your guess is as good as mine!

The good news is I’ve already started working on my query letter, so I should be able to clean that up pretty quickly before I dig into my list of agents and publishers and start querying later this month.

I’m still trying to get the collection done, and I’ve started the behind-the-scenes work (marketing ideas, interior layout).

Next up…deciding if I want to try to keep that ambitious self-publishing schedule and get back to the folk horror novella, or maybe plot Book 2 in my Reaper series. I’m still shopping Book 1 around. I had a full request from a publisher in November but haven’t heard anything back yet, so I guess I just get back to that and look for more publishers…or agents…or think about self-publishing. All the dream markets I’d love to send it to are closed…and/or closed to unagented subs, so…yeah.

FUN TIMES! Publishing is such a roller coaster. But I’m still hanging on.