Today is one day after release day, and I hit #2 on the Carina most popular chart! Woo hoo!
I'll be featured by Carina Press this afternoon, with a post on their blog and some stuff on Twitter and Facebook.
I'm also participating this month in The Romance Reviews YES! Party (Year End Splash party). My Q&A days are Nov. 4 and 23, but there are a ton of authors participating, with bigger tons of prizes available.
So who's doing NaNoWriMo this year?
In 2006, I did my first NaNo with Under the Moon. That book got me an agent and lots of good responses from publishers, but we were submitting a genre-fence-riding book when the bottom fell out of the market, so I didn't find a publisher for it until Entangled, who was willing to offer a contract and then get me off the fence. (It's now planted on the "romance" side, though still leaning on the "urban fantasy" fence. :) )
I participated in and won NaNo for the next five years. One year, both my kids did it with me. After Number Two decided she didn't like writing after all, it was just Number Two, who ALWAYS finished before me, the stinker. I think she's doing it this year, but I'm not.
It makes me sad, in a way. Five years with a certain atmosphere in my house, an excited urgency driving us. There's a fantastic camaraderie with other NaNo participants, and always people whose word counts challenge me (and, occasionally, vice versa!). I'll really miss it!
But I'm not complaining about why I'm missing it. Promotion for two book releases, a double deadline with two publishers...triple if you count book 3 of Goddesses Rising, which isn't due for a few months but I'm working on it every day. I didn't wait until today to start it, or I'd be doing THAT for NaNo. :)
So how many of you are participating? Have you done it before? What's your record? Let us cheer you on!
5 comments:
You are really busy. I never do NaNo. November is just too busy a month for me in lots of ways. Good luck with all your new releases.
You are really busy. I never do NaNo. November is just too busy a month for me in lots of ways. Good luck with all your new releases.
Gah, Sue, I just popped over to your blog (I never have time to read them at all anymore!) and saw what's been going on with you. What a pain! I'm glad you had a lovely trip with your daughter, though, and made it back before the snow. :)
Thank you!
I'm not doing it this year, either. It feels weird, but I've got family coming next week, and a Veteran's Day program to get ready for...funny you and I both decided not to do it this year--you're always the one who spurs me on!
That's so funny, MJ! We just can't stop paralleling, can we? LOL
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