Long Time, No... Uh... Write?

So, it's been awhile since I posted on this blog. With all the other blogging I'm doing, you'd think I could spare some time once in awhile to just pop by and post? Apparently not.

I did want to let you know a couple of important things that have happened in my life lately.

** I got a request for a full submission of my Steampunk novel. I'm sending that in as we speak.

** I got a request for a full submission of New Nineveh (inspy contemp, Genesis), which as been renamed to Once a Smokejumper after the editor who requested it said she'd never be able to sell that title. Very well. :-) I like the new title better, anyway.

** I sent Once A Smokejumper in to the Golden Heart.

** I finaled in the Beacon contest, with two manuscripts. Both currently complete. Both waiting for an editor/agent request.

** I finished two novels during NaNoWriMo (Yes, I'm Psychotic).

** And... I finally heard back from Harlequin. The editor sent me the absolute best rejection letter I could possibly have gotten. She essentially said that she loved my voice and my writing, and wanted to see something else. NN has some really glaring plot difficulties that my CPs pointed out to me, but I didn't want to listen to them. I'm here to tell you, they were right. :-) And the editor backed them up. I'm in the middle of fixing them, as we speak, and am going to fix them before I send them to Carina. But I'm really just hoping to get a chance to get that book published someday. It won't be with Harlequin, which is fine with me. Because the next one might. :-) I'm nothing if not an optimist, eh?

Oh, and it looks like my job will be going full time next year. Perhaps not right away in January, but at some point after that. Maybe in May. Or September. We're not sure. But for sure, next year sometime. So yay! I'm excited about that. I love my job, my staff is amazing, and the work we're doing is glorifying to God. There is no better job to have.

God is good, in short. :-)