Adieu to 2017 ~ and a sale!
Wow, what a year it's been! There's been the good: ~ Selling my novel The Lost History of Dreams to Touchstone Books. (Can I get a big hooray?) ~ All those great reviews for Bad Princess, which will finally be released into the world next month. ~ The very welcome addition of Finnick the Bengal to the Blue House menagerie. ~ The wonders of using NaNoWriMo to start my first new book in three years. And the bad, of which beauty was found despite the
Muse: Amor Caritas
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a rare day away from the studio. So lovely!
My debut novel has a publisher!
What I jotted down after I woke up one morning when it all began. Hey, you know that Victorian photography novel I've been oh-so-mysteriously writing the past few years, and sharing occasional snippets from? Last week it was sold to Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, for hardcover publication in early 2019. Oh, and my novel even has a title: The Lost History of Dreams. Curiously enough this title came to me in a dream (above). Here's the official announcement from Publisher's Marketplace,
Happy day after NaNoWriMo
... or, as some call it, December 1st. So, yeah, I made my 50,000 words goal in November to create a first draft of a novel last night in the nick of time. Now the real work begins of shaping a viable manuscript from a tangled mass of words. In the meantime, I'll let my NaNo draft cool off as I catch my breath. This year I didn't have any issues writing a few thousand words in a day, probably because
