Straight up to my bedroom we go

Sugarfoot - Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

In case you haven't figured it out by now, the titles of my blog posts are ripped from the lyrics of the songs I post. Why? I dunno ...

Three of you (which, near as I can figure, represents approximately 60% of my current readership) asked me questions, so here are my answers to Ask a Writer:

Julie asks:

So I'm interested in know how you feel about publishing now that you have an agent? Where are you in the submission process, and if you've discussed future project with your agent, or if she doesn't like an idea for a future project, do you still plan to write it? For example, the vampires on Ice? Why yes, I can write one hell of a run-on sentence...

I feel that publishing moves at approximately the speed of stop, which is just under the speed of slow. Publishing will drive you crazy if you're impatient for success (which certainly doesn't describe ME, does it?). As far as I know, my agent has not yet submitted any of my work to any editors. If she has, I'm not aware of it. The last we spoke, she said she was still researching which editors to reach out toward. I have not discussed in great detail any future projects with her at this time, although I have sent her a list of proposed novels to fall within the Just Cause universe. At the moment, I'm going to write whatever the hell I feel like writing, because I have nobody with a checkbook suggesting otherwise.

The Charming Hedonist asks:

Does it ever feel like a job to you now that you must write and meet deadlines?

Long story short, no. Nobody is giving me any deadlines, and I'm generally much harder on myself about production than anyone else will be (hel-LO? 5-time NaNoWriMo winner?). Regardless, even if a publisher with money practically falling out of its ass sets me a deadline to write the next book in a series (for example), I'm STILL getting PAID to WRITE, which is the entire reason I'm doing all this.

Pamela asks:

Anyway, knowing that you "have to write".... does it make it less exciting?

Nope. I HAVE to write, whether or not someone's signing me the checks. If I don't write, I'll go crazy. That's why I've been writing for free for so long - because it keeps the demons at bay.

Thanks for your questions! Tune in again soon...