Kindle Vella adventures continue

 I just submitted the eleventh installment of Nine Panel Grid at Kindle Vella, which is the halfway point for the story.  Like Aronnax it isn't exactly blowing up in popularity (actually, like any of my works!), but at least with this one I would totally understand readers not at all understanding what it is that it's supposed to be accomplishing.  This one's very much something that appeals to my sensibilities.  I would have to be someone readers already care about in order to care about it, and that isn't part of this reality, so...!

The good news is I already have another Kindle Vella project lined up, and I think it will be an easier sell.  It's called Ex-Ray: Event Fatigue, and I'm going to try and be conventional with this one.  Really!  Try!  With me this is always a difficult proposition.  Once I sketch it out I will probably even be writing it simultaneously with Nine Panel, and it'll be a longer story.

As I wrote last time I checked in, I submitted Seven Thunders to an agent last weekend, and said agent somehow thought it was a great idea to get back to me on Thursday with a rejection notice.  So that was pretty cool.  Maybe they were having a really bad Thanksgiving, apparently having to work an' all, I don't know.  It may have contributed to how yesterday began playing out for me, but realistically, everyone who participates in this game struggles to get in, and since I have been playing so poorly it doesn't really surprise me to still be on the bench, but I'm determined not to give up.  I'm gonna persist.  

I did just send out Christmas presents, including this year's collection, Gracie, which I would like to believe is another opportunity to at least convince my family I'm worth rooting for, but who knows?  I had fun writing it, anyway.

Putting It Out There (Again)

This isn't much of a post except as a note that I'm putting Seven Thunders out there again.  I submitted it to a publisher last week and to an agent earlier this afternoon.  It's the effort of trying, to keep trying, that I'm pursuing this time.  I've been sitting on this manuscript for close to a decade at this point.  I've made sporadic efforts over the years in getting it published, and I guess I've got renewed determination to make something happen.  I'm actually more interested in pursuing the agent angle, something I've never really done before, even though of course the major publishers certainly prefer that.  I was reading a book about one of the major editors of the pulp magazine era who specialized in mobilizing the science fiction scene, and it got me thinking, not so much about submitting stories to the journals out there (I was never that motivated in that avenue), but the thought that I have this material that I think has potential to be something, and so many other stories just waiting to be written, and I might never actually write them unless I get this one in print.  

Well, stranger things have certainly happened.