Still have everything crossed hoping you hear soon 🙂

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Wendy – that kind of confirms what I thought re agents – harder than publishers! Carina is definitely worth a look I think. I do write hot but not sure I could do the whole erotica thing.

Maisey – Hoo’s rather happy with that whip so I’m not sure he wants to put it down. 😉 Yep, you said it re Riva. I think that’s a very good thing personally. Oh and I’m with you re DRM. It sucks. Having had problems with it in the past, I can’t see any use for it at all.

Hoo…put down the whip…I’m working…I’m working!!

Jackie, I’m hoping it’s RIva they were referring to. Actually, talking of broadening editorial, I think a lot of the lines are shifting to accommodate new things these days. Very encouraging!

Wendy, re Carina and DRM…It’s my opinion DRM doesn’t help anything. Our print books turned ebooks are DRM’d and my book is still listed on at least ten illegal download sites. Without DRM, people can put the ebooks on the reader or device of choice. And with it…law abiding people can’t, and jerks still steal it. Just my two cents!

As far as Agents go, I have been trying to get one for a time now. I think they must all really be at the whim of the publishers. They know what is selling and what is not and seem to be unwilling to take a chance on something a little different (even though they say they are looking for “fresh voices”. I have gotten really nice rejections talking about how well I write and how much they admired what I sent them and that they are very intrigued with my plot. But the answer was still NO.

As to something else you talked about. SEX. I am trying to branch out, seeing if I can write something that certain publishers are currently looking for, so I downloaded a Harlequin “Undone” and a Harlequin “Spice”. Wholly Hannah. Apparently, too much isn’t too much! I personally am a fan of the “striptease” you know, a little left on is sometimes sexier than taking it all off (at least in the first chapter).

This search for other ways to get published led me to Carina Press. Harlequin’s strictly epublisher. The guidelines are a lot broader and I think they just want to expand their new baby. However, they don’t give advances and they don’t have DRM. And I think they ask for all rights for 7 years. But hey, it might be a hell of a way to break in, n’est pa?

Excuse me but I think that “biddy” is looking hot! Hoo agrees with me and he’s the one with the whip!

I’m still loving the photos and living vicariously through your stories. All hail the published authors who wait for eleven years. Bettcha she’s got a good dose of that virtue patience that seems to elude me :).

Rach – I know! I wished she’d talked more about that. She’s in NZ this weekend but I bet it’ll just be the same talk she gave in Sydney.