dim sum diaries

Not the best way to start the week, but it looks like I'm not going to be working on the China non-fiction book. The publisher had some concerns about the proposal and wanted significant changes. He asked me to resubmit a proposal incorporating all the changes.

Here's the problem. There's no guarantee of a contract even if I do another pitch, and the time I'd need to get this right would take away from the time I need to work on The Forbidden Phoenix. Over the last month, I've been feeling pretty rundown, and I'm pretty sure it has to do with overbooking myself with school visits and writing projects.

Rather than try to knock myself out to do this pitch and lose the time needed to finish out The Forbidden Phoenix, I think I'm going to have to bow out of the China book. I just can't devote that much time to something that might not come to be. If I had nothing else cooking over the summer, I'd go for it. I don't mind revising a pitch, but if I had to choose between a paying gig and a freebie, I have to choose the paying job. Argh. I wish I had more energy to do all the things I wanted to do.

I'll sleep on the decision and contact the publisher tomorrow.