May 22, 2008 | about me
Ohhhh I have been such a bad blogger.
I’ve been very busy, and very tired. Mostly, I’ve finished up my first round of revisions for Girl from Mars and sent the whole thing off to my agent, who will probably get in touch today to tell me what she thinks. Am I scared? Well, yeah. Of course I’m scared.
I went through several stages of crows with this ms. When I’d finished it, I was convinced it was complete and utter crap. I left it while I went to the States, and then I came back and changed the ending a bit, and I read it over and suddenly, I was totally in love with it.
I’m not sure if this is a dangerous thing or not. Am I correct in loving it, or am I instead utterly, utterly blind?
Anyway, I expect revisions–I always get revisions. There’s one place I’m not convinced I handled the best way I could, and I’m looking forward to feedback about how to do that better.
While waiting, I’ve taken out and beaten all the rugs, mopped all the floors, hoovered up every single cobweb and cleaned the former disaster area of my back passage, which is what we call the covered-in area off the kitchen where we keep the refrigerator, washing machine, and tonnes of assorted crap. You have never seen so many spiders.
I’ve also done some reading, which I will blog about in a bit. And my creative writing session at the library went really well, which as always was down to the great group who did all I asked them with nary a complaint.
Now I will go back to biting my nails and waiting for the phone to ring.
Anna Louise Lucia says:
You’re right to love it.
Dad says:
I’m sure it will be great reading
Sadhbh says:
Hi Julie - I see the usual fears are biting at you and I’m with Anna - you’re right to love it, and it’ll be brill
Little question because I can’t remember the answer - is Married in a Rush coming out in the US and if so under what name?
and BTW I’ll be blogging about Mistress in Private on the eharl blog in a few days time if you’re interested in what I thought of it
Hugs
Jessica Raymond says:
Is it wrong that I had to go back and read “the former disaster area of my back passage” twice?
Jess (who assumes the answer is “yes”)
Julie says:
Anna, Dad, and Sadhbh…thank you.
Can’t wait to hear what you think, Sadhbh.
Jess…that is a constant joke in our house.
No phone call today, guess I’ll chew my fingernails till Tuesday.
Jan Jones says:
Well, I hope agent gets back to you double-quick, because this is one book I can’t wait to read!
Leo Robertson says:
Spiders? Yikes!