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| BuNoWriMo Logo by graphics artist, Joris Ammerlaan. |
Every June, I look forward to BuNoWriMo, a
month-long frenzy of writing a 50K- word novel in 30 days. But for the past two years I’ve had it
interrupted—in a good way, though, so I’m not complaining! Last year I’d gotten about a third of the way
into a superhero novella entitled NOBODY’S ANGEL, when I got hit with various
things, like the art form info sheet for CRIME WAVE IN A CORSET, which was to
be release during the Christmas holiday season.
As soon as I sweated bullets over the required elevator pitch (OHMYGODITWASSOOOOHARD!!!!),
I then got hit with the three phases of editing—developmental edits, line edits
and the copy editor’s edits. By the time
CWiaC was done to everyone’s satisfaction, June was over, and I eventually
finished my BuNo project at the end of July.
The great thing about this is… I FINISHED. In my family it’s always been a matter of
finishing what you started. And there are rewards for the determination
that goes hand-in-hand with hard labor—NOBODY’S ANGEL was picked up by CarinaPress and will be published in January of 2013.
This year I started BuNoWriMo with pretty much a clean
slate. Nothing was going to hold me
back. I would DEFINITELY be able
to finish a project in thirty days this time around! Then I got SLAMMED with not just one art form
sheet, but TWO. NOBODY’S ANGEL and HOW
THE GLITCH SAVED CHRISTMAS (my Sci-Fi holiday novella in Carina Press’s A GALACTIC
HOLIDAY Anthology, releasing December 3, 2012).
Did I mention elevator pitches are required on these
things? They're important, because they give the cover artists a
broad understanding of what your book is about.
And did I mention I HATE them? The
elevator pitches, not the cover artists.
Cover artists are cool. J
Then came the edits.
All the edits for both NOBODY’S ANGEL and the second book in the series,
SAVAGE ANGEL (releasing in February, 2013 by Carina Press) landed in my inbox during
the month of June. Once again I set my
BuNo project aside and focused on the job at hand, which was to polish up the projects already under contract. As June trickled into July, I waved my dream of finishing a book in thirty days a
fond farewell.
This past Friday I sent off the copy edits for SAVAGE ANGEL,
and last night I completed my BuNo project entitled WOUNDED ANGEL (yeah, it’s a
series ;) ). Only twenty-two days late,
but that’s no biggie, right? Now, to set
my sights on finishing up the Earth Angels series by writing a book in the
month of August…
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
