The Prince He Loved and The Strongest Magic

[m_barnette]

Will not be published by Total-e-Bound. They finally sent me contracts on The Strongest Magic and I chose to take a pass on it. There were some unfriendly clauses that I didn't care for.

The Prince He Loved is off on submission elsewhere already.

The Strongest Magic will go out again after I add a few hundred words to it to make most publisher's minimum count of 20k. I'm leaning toward sending it to one publisher I've been considering for about 5 years but haven't sent anything to yet.

Not much else going on around here other than the fact I took down the Yule tree today. Still boxing stuff up but I'm not in any hurry. If it gets done tomorrow, that's soon enough.

Off to do some relaxing and mull over what, exactly, I want to do with The Strongest Magic and a few other books I'd thought I'd be sending to TeB.

Comments

[chrysalis1975]

I truly am sorry the submissions didn't work out for you, but perhaps it's for the best, especially if you weren't happy with the clauses in the contract. I hope those books find homes soon!! Especially The Prince He Loved, because I really REALLY want to read that book in its entirety.

HUGS :)

[m_barnette]

This happens every now and then, Tame. Like I said, it was not an author friendly contract and I took a pass due to those ugly clauses. One or two that are for the publisher I don't mind, but... There were far too many of them for my taste, the worst ones involved how royalties were calculated.

The Prince He Loved is already off to another publisher who has already contacted me to say it's been put in the hand of an editor for a decision. They take about 6-8 weeks to decide so in the meantime I'll work on some other stories.

That Valentine's Day story I was working on has stalled totally. I'm really unhappy with it and I think I'm going to drop it and work on something else.

I hope you're feeling better than you were a few days ago. You DO have friends and you DO matter. Always remember that, even when you're feeling down, there are people who care about you.

[chrysalis1975]

I am thinking and sending positive thoughts about the books out there now, and with all the work you did over the holidays, maybe another holiday story might be a bit much right now...

I am feeling better, but I'm taking one day at a time :-). My J had stopped eating, and I know how I was feeliing was somewhat rubbing off on her...it's lovely to see her smile, and even though I don't smile much anymore, I really am at peace. I'm really self-conscious when I smile, lol ;-)

Hugs!!!