Just signed the contract for The Bonnie Bell!
Which makes the sale officially official. Stamped and sealed, even. I'd have sealed the envelope with a big red glob of hot wax, but things are done electronically these days and it's impossible to scrape all the wax off the monitor.
So that makes six entries in the Markhat series, with another already in progress. I'm happy about that. Happy and a little frightened, because we all know what happens to most series after a few books.
Seriously. Take Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books, for instance. The first three were great. But something happened after that, and I've not been able to follow the later books. I'm not knocking Ms Hamilton; but for me, the series evolved into something I don't care for.
It doesn't happen with every series, of course. Rex Stout managed seventy-odd Nero Wolfe books without a single fatal mis-step. Jim Butcher's wizard-for-hire tales are bumping along as good as ever. Kim Harrison and her Hollows books haven't jumped the shark.
Still, I worry. But until I start getting rejections instead of contracts, I'll just stay the course and trust that Markhat and the gang know what they're doing.
Too, I have another project in the works. A secret project, one that has absolutely nothing to do with finders or haunts or Trolls. I think people will be surprised -- nay, amazed.
But that's a story for another time. Right now I need to finish proofing the print galleys for The Banshee's Walk. That involves reading the whole thing yet again, character by character and word by word, looking for any remaining hidden typos or sneaky format errors.
I live a life of glamor and excitement, I do! Look -- is that a dangling participle, on which light yonder breaks?
Which makes the sale officially official. Stamped and sealed, even. I'd have sealed the envelope with a big red glob of hot wax, but things are done electronically these days and it's impossible to scrape all the wax off the monitor.
So that makes six entries in the Markhat series, with another already in progress. I'm happy about that. Happy and a little frightened, because we all know what happens to most series after a few books.
Seriously. Take Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books, for instance. The first three were great. But something happened after that, and I've not been able to follow the later books. I'm not knocking Ms Hamilton; but for me, the series evolved into something I don't care for.
It doesn't happen with every series, of course. Rex Stout managed seventy-odd Nero Wolfe books without a single fatal mis-step. Jim Butcher's wizard-for-hire tales are bumping along as good as ever. Kim Harrison and her Hollows books haven't jumped the shark.
Still, I worry. But until I start getting rejections instead of contracts, I'll just stay the course and trust that Markhat and the gang know what they're doing.
Too, I have another project in the works. A secret project, one that has absolutely nothing to do with finders or haunts or Trolls. I think people will be surprised -- nay, amazed.
But that's a story for another time. Right now I need to finish proofing the print galleys for The Banshee's Walk. That involves reading the whole thing yet again, character by character and word by word, looking for any remaining hidden typos or sneaky format errors.
I live a life of glamor and excitement, I do! Look -- is that a dangling participle, on which light yonder breaks?
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