Woke up to a nice performance review today. I was pretty worried about it this time; I've covered more articles this month than I ever had before, and some of them -- especially the last few days -- were not my usual tech articles. Got a lot of relationship stuff, random fix-its, etc., which is what happens when most of the editors go on vacation, I guess.
For the record, it was those weird ones my reviewer dinged me on - no grammar issues that she spotted, but I did let some vague overviews slip through. Looking at them through her eyes, I see it now, but a lot of them were extremely well-written, and when you're used to dealing with rushed, subpar writing, well-written stuff...well, it makes my eyes/brain glaze over a bit.
But it was not the crushing bitchslap I was expecting, and in fact it was quite positive.
So! Onward.
The query letter for the romance novel is done; it's a very basic query letter. The fantasy is giving me a little more trouble, as it's a sassy, sarcastic first-person novel with a lot of characters (many of them historical) and you can't just go hurling dozens of names into a query. Working on getting the tone correct. And distilling the pot into a sentence. What is the plot? Um...well, the main character wants to stay alive long enough to get home. I think that's my jumpoff point.
Off to get some work done. My father took a half-day at work today so I think we're going to do something once I finish up.
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