It's been awhile since I was here last, but I'm back. Things have been a little crazy since my last post. The publisher I had been with closed its doors, so I self published for awhile and game across another publisher, submitted a manuscript and was accepted. That lasted about a year and after deciding that seeing my work available in only one place, I decided to go back to self publishing.
Then, I got an email from a publisher in California. This publisher said he had an assistant that said he had read something i had written and thought that i was someone he should talk to. So, we talked a couple of times, he read a couple of my short stories and, to make a long story short, he offered me a work-for-hire contract.
For those that don't know about work-for-hire, they gave me an outline of a story to write from an outline that they provided. I would be paid a flat fee, paid in installments throughout the writing of the story and after the book went to print, I would drop back into the stable of writers until an outline in my genre came across agin, then the whole process would start all over.
Well, everything moved along until I finished it and it was sent to the editor. I don't know if these editors read the outlines, but this person tagged me on parts of the manuscript that were requested in the outline. After the editor trashed my manuscript a couple of times, I talked with the big man, voiced my complaints and we decided to part ways. It was a little disappointing it ended that way because I wasted a whole writing year on that project, but it is what it is and life goes on.
But all is not lost, I'm back to self publishing and last month I sent a manuscript to a new publisher and the waiting begins anew!
So I hope you all hang with me, because I intend to keep this blog a lot more active!
See You Again Soon!
