Honestly, knee-deep in prepping UCLA classes. We have a Marketing class and a Developmental Editing class coming up in January. We also have a 4 week Synopsis Writing Class coming up (working on that one as we speak).
On top of all of that, I had to get my family off on their annual Disney Cruise Christmas trip (which of course gives me the time where it is just me and the puppies to get some work done).
But here is the thing. This is sort of what every editor and agent is in the middle of doing right now. We are looking at the calendar and madly rushing to get as many things cleared off our desks before the holidays.
Editors are trying to get contracts wrapped up, edits to their writers, proposals finished and as many of those requested projects read.
And let me tell you, it isn't easy. In fact, let me give you a little run down with one of my clients. We have been trying to push a contract through but that process is always a slow one. We had to review a deal memo and then we had to go back and re-tweak some things due to international payments (that slowed things a bit), once that was signed and off and running, it was off to contracts, but then get this... the editor who signed the author was then shifted to another department! That's right, the poor author has already shifted editors and we aren't even through the contract part yet. But wait, it gets better. Now the contract shows up but the person in charge of signing it is now going to retire so it was an issue of seeing who was now going to sign it.
And all before the holidays.
ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Good news? Chris Green is now an new Harlequin Author!!!! Congratulations!
The point of this is simple. Take some time to prep those manuscripts. Get everything ready. And then, when the holidays are over, toward the end of the year, go ahead and fire off those projects. Many of use will be heading back to work and be ready to look at things at the start of the New Year.
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