Knocked Down, but Jumped Back up

I fired off a proposal to Tradewind, hoping they'd pick up my Sasquatch series. The response came back quickly. The publisher wanted real and contemporary stories. No fantasy. That kind of feedback is so valuable. Hearing straight from the publisher is better market research than any kind of catalogue reading.

So, I sat down and jotted some notes on two different novel ideas (a coming of age comedy and a horror story). The publisher liked them both. Now I have to write outlines and hope that he likes them. In a perfect world, he'd say yes to both and I'd be able to clone myself. I'll have to remember this day as what happens when a writer takes a rejection seriously, but not personally.

Oh, and he also gave the thumbs up to the short story. He's got some notes on the story, but at least I made it past the first stage. What a great way to end the week.