Jeri Smith-Ready

Blogger's block

It happens every once in awhile, usually while the real writing is going quite well.

I can't think of anything to blog about. Oh, sure, there are the trivial matters that grab my attention, like the fact that Mary Worth is going to 'Nam, or that the label of the Snow Cone Hot Chocolate Mix for Two clearly depicts a snowman suicide pact, or that the Ravens are playing their arch-nemeses the Baltimore Indianapolis Colts in a playoff game on Saturday that has left everyone in this town groping for the Valium. But none of that is worth discussing on a focused, professional blog such as this one.

I'm finishing the rewrites of my young adult fantasy (the novel previously known as Angel's Gambit). I just threw an old lady down a flight of stairs.* Life is good.

Later this week I'll begin the long-awaited revision of Voice of Crow, due at the end of this month. Like most writers, I have to balance my time between the books I'm already contracted for and the books I hope to sell. The plan is to continue submitting one new series proposal each year until I'm fully contracted. My definition of "fully contracted" means:

a) more than one book per year for the next three years, AND/OR
b) having enough work to make my head almost but not quite explode

How's your year been so far? Discuss.

*Relax! It was a homicidal maniac old lady, and she only broke a hip, leaving her able to get all homicidally maniacal in a later book (at which point she can be thrown off a bridge or into an active volcano).

Labels: Voice of Crow

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