Chai can jump up onto chairs now – that’s a little higher than she could jump last week. We’ve had a couiple of “Oi, watch it!” protest meows, but I don’t think we’ve had a yowl of pain for no visible reason all week.
I got my competition entries off, plus I submitted a short story I wrote earlier. I have a week before the deadline of the remaining competition that I wanted to enter.
No more agent queries sent out this week, but clearly I need to do it soon because I’ve had a rejection back. I did try something called #PitMad, where you tweet a pitch for your book and hope that one of the agents or publishers takeing part likes your tweet, thereby asking for a partial. (It varies frmo one agency to another, but a partial is typically a synopsis, the first three chapters and a covering letter). It took quite a lot of time to boil my pitch down to 280 characters, including the hashtags for “Adult” and “Mystery”. Then I realised that, since most of the agents on #PitMad are American, I’d better have a partial in US English ready to go. It all took time. After all that I got a grand total of ZERO interest from publishers. It’s not a total loss though. I learned something and all that retweeting found me some interesting people to follow on Twitter and some new followers.
It’s rained quite a bit this week, which is good because the island needs the rain. It also means that we get rainbows.
