Quick update:

No further news on the stray agent query I've sent out. The would be Pema Browne Ltd. Also, my manuscripts that I sent out the week before last have got to be sitting in the 'slush' pile in two different publication houses. Have they been read? Look at it? Sent back? Only time will tell, I guess.

As for my new book: It's coming along just fine. I'm already working on Chapter 3 and it's getting to the part where it will be even more fun to write than the beginning was for me. Things are picking up, getting more exciting. My plan to write a couple pages a day is still working. I've had a tendency to get ahead of myself so that I didn't have to hit it as full-tilt on the weekend. I was actually a couple of pages behind last night, but I caught up while burning the midnight oil.

I know I made a deadline for myself to get it done, and it's kind of cool to think that I'll probably make it. It's the stuff that happens after that I don't look forward to. Editing. It's the worst. While I could definitely see the benefit of it from the first draft of my last effort to the final version, it still sucks. Big time.

Ah well...this is at least is keeping me busy while I wait for the 'experts' out there say 'yay' or 'nay' to my book. Rest assured, I'll keep kicking them out. Eventually, they'll come around. Right???