…just when I needed it. After feeling a bit raw about reviews, it was wonderful to get an email today from a reviewer who’d just finished reading the ARC of ASK FOR IT. She called it PHENOMENAL (all caps hers). :d Such a relief. She’s the first reader outside my cps and editor who has read the book. I was so nervous waiting to hear from someone. A bit of a nail-biter since readers liked BAD BOYS AHOY! so much, which I wrote well over a year after I wrote ASK FOR IT. Those of you who are writers know how much you can grow in ability over the course of a year. Also ASK FOR IT is my first ms ever. So there’s the added pressure of releasing something that was your first dabble ever into writing.
Anyway, so happy and relieved she enjoyed it so much. She got the ARC yesterday and wrote this morning so she must have read it straight through. Wow.
In not-so-good review news, another reviewer contacted me via the review coordinator to tell me that her package arrived torn, retaped, and missing the ARC that was supposed to be inside. WTF? I told my mom today that I must have postal/shipping bad karma or something. What is it with people ripping open my packages? My last two shipments of coverflats from Kensington came to me ripped open at the corner, like they wanted to see what was inside it. *grumbles*
Anything good new with you?
Congrats on the good review. It is nervous having someone read your first ‘baby.’ I’ve grown so much since my first it’s not even funny. Of course, I could take that two ways, 1) The MS totally sucked. 2) I was good, but now I’m MUCH better. Who knows.
Sorry to hear about your snail mail woes. I’ve been blessed. Charina and I have snail mailed the same box back and forth from OK to NY so many times I’m surprised it’s still intact. hehe
by Dana April 28th, 2006 at 7:26 amCongrats on the great review, Sylvia.
ASK FOR IT might be your first ms, but it sure doesn’t read like it is! Great story, great characters. I love the trailer.
by Annette April 28th, 2006 at 8:24 amAwesome on the review Sylvia! I’ve put my first real ms on the shelf for so many reasons but someday I do want to see if I can get it published. But as you said, its my first and thus my first real love affair with writing a completed ms. I don’t think I’m ready to deal with the rejection. The following books I’m more prepared for harsh critism should they take it.
Cole
by Nicole Reising April 28th, 2006 at 11:39 amThanks, everyone! (I miss my hug smiley
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by Sylvia