Luree & Tracy

Oh happy day!

We've had success at publsihing our short stories.

Luree has had two stories published on the e-zine www.longandshortreviews.com  'A Time Passed' and 'In This Time'

She's getting ready to enter the "Steal From The Best" contest.  You write around a line from a movie!  www.hazelst.com

Tracy has a story on www.longandshortreviews.com  'Court Ship'

She is entered in the "Steal From The Best" contest.  'In The Eyes Of The Beholder'

She's also entered in the Writers Weekly's Spring 24-Hour Short Story Contest.  'Amanda'

And will be participating in the summer contest!

Check us out and if we win any kudos you, our faithful fans, will be the first to know!

Peace out.

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Well, we still have several New York agents reading our projects.  That's the good news.

But the time we were able to give ouselves is up and we are back on the job market.  Shooting for jobs that can support us but not suck the muse from our souls.

Really want to thank all our family and friends that supported this effort and continue to do so.

We'll get there yet... publication.

Thanks!

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Dear Agents and Editors of the Great Publishing Community of New York,

I beseech you to expedite your decisions concerning our projects now under your wise and experienced consideration.

I fear that my dear writing partner has become quite psychotic in her need to receive correspondence from you via e-mail.

She sits all day, every day, staring, glassy eyed at her computer screen.  Every few moments she mumbles, "Nothing."

We are no longer able to work, because she is on "New York Time" Monday through Friday and even on the weekends she checks nonstop, 'just in case'.

I may have to take drastic measures and strike her upon her cheek to snap her out of her nearly catatonic state.

I will valiantly attempt to secure her mental health while we await you verdicts.

Thank you for your concern for her welfare and mine as her caregiver.

Phone home, New York, phone home.

Tracy

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Ping?

Anyone out there know what a ping is?  It has just started to mess with our blog site and we can find very little info on how to fix said ping.

Any technos out there care to advise?

Thanks, T

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Howdy,

It's rodeo week here in the Old Pueblo.  Makes me think of chaps and spurs...

Oh, yeah, I promised Luree no erotica on this blog.  The restraint I have to practice is very difficult.

As for our other writing, we are so busy doing every other minute detail of daily living, BJ is feeling abandoned. 

40 lashes, I say.  Does that fall under erotica, too?

I think I better go take a walk around the block and try to get my mind off cowboys.

But let me tell you, Luree will be fanatically watching Survivor tonight, because we both drool over James!!!

High excitement on the dusty desert plains. 

Bye for now, Tracy

PS   Any cowboys out there or grave diggers, give me a call!

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Ahhh…..checking the email isn’t giving us as much exercise as checking the mail box!  Checking the mail box requires our self imposed walk around the block and is only a once a day event.  How ever checking the email only requires a push of a button and a few key strokes and like magic- there you are.  Way too easy for obsessive souls.  I think we may have to impose some sort of self discipline technique maybe along the lines of we can’t check email until was have written a 1000 words on our manuscript for the day?   I am not sure either of us would survive the anxiety of waiting four hours. But man would we get a lot of writing done. 
 

Obsession 2: Researching Agents
 

I am always looking for one more agent that might fit our needs for representation.  Research is a necessary evil to find out who is out there and what kinds of projects and authors they represent.  There are several great places to look online including:
http://www.aar-online.org  and  http://www.preditorsandeditors.com/.   That said the obsession takes over when I start reading every little detail that leads me to a new web page with more great information that leads me to a blog that has lots of great tips that leads me to a new author and I fall in love with the book that they are promoting………
You can see how this can progress to no work getting done.
 

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Well...  Here we are.

We were so pumped when we got home from the conference.  We were flying high.  I was even more hyper that usual, which under normal circumstances can be scary enough.

Then, ya know, reality set in once more.

Now checking the mail box has taken second place to obsessively checking our e-mail.  Our stuff is out there in all its glory.  And we expect instant gratification.  Hello.

We are undecided if we should be sending out more queries.  Or do we wait in the face of the overwhelming interest we received from both agents and editors?

Do we hang in one more month in the hopes we get a manuscript sold and an advance?  Or do we attempt to get tiny little jobs that will some magical way keep us going financially but still leave us time to write, write, write?

Oh, the uncertainty of it all.

I think I'd prefer to be hit on the head with a large rubber mallet and wait out the process in la-la land.

But hang in there with us, you tons o' fans, because one day SOON, we will be published authors and you can say you knew us when and suffered through our journey right along with us!

Oh joy!

Love and peace, man,

Tracy

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