Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Had a down few days, not really sure why, maybe just chemical tides among the synapses, but they seem to be receding now.
The morning was with Ovid, pushing almost to the end of the Deucalion and Pyrrha story, the repopulating of the earth after the flood. The stones which this pair threw over their backs have now begun to soften, become supple and transform into the bodies of men and women.
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Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Got my first semi-encouraging rejection today. Missing doesn’t fit their needs, but they encouraged me to send future work to them. Could be the gentle let down, but it sounded non-formulaic and sincere.
I’m in a bit of a stuck place right now in regard to the Unmaking trilogy of which Missing is the first book. Since it takes a year + to write, then some more to revise and edit each novel, committing to finishing the trilogy could take up to three or four years. I’m not getting any younger and I don’t want to spend that much time on something without a commercial future.
I have other projects that have a energy, three actually. One of them in particular has a big book feel to me, but I’m not ready to start it. It needs more research and language skills more advanced than those I have now.
So, I’ll let the submission/rejection cycle play out over a few more agents and if necessary consider electronic publishing, then decide about picking up Loki’s Children. It is about a third written with material from Missing I cut out during revision.