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[taste_is_sweet]

I have fun and happy news to share, O Best-Beloveds. Attend whilst I explain.

My awesome internet buddy Sarah Madison (or sarah_madison) has a new book out!

Actually, it's been out for at least two weeks now, but I literally forgot to post anything last week, for reasons I'll explain in a moment. But first let me enthuse about Walk a Mile.



I enjoyed the prequel, Unspeakable Words very much, so I'm extremely excited to find out what's going to happen to the characters in Walk a Mile. What I especially loved in UW was how imaginatively and unflinchingly Sarah wrote about telepathy--as in, it would suck. John Flynn is the accidental and unwilling telepath, and in UW I was cringing on his behalf pretty much every time she described what was happening to him. Imagine not even being able to know if anything you feel is true, or just your partner's wishful thinking--it'd be hell. But reading about it being hell was awesome.

Basically, the emotional H/C was off the hook in Unspeakable Words. I'm very much looking forward to more of the same, as well as having some of the questions raised by the prequel answered.

So you should totally buy both books. Just saying. ;)

And now, as promised, is the reason I forgot to post last week.

Back in August, I sent a novella to Dreamspinner, because DSP is my boo. DSP's turnaround time for submissions is no more than eight weeks. They are really, really good about this, but eight weeks is still eight weeks. The last day of the eight weeks would've been tomorrow, and by the time last Monday rolled around I was so fucking incredibly stressed I could barely function. Which apparently included remembering I'd intended to post about Sarah Madison's new novel to LJ. Luckily she's not just talented but also very understanding of authorly freakouts. :D

And then on Friday, I found out that Dreamspinner is going to publish my novella! \o/ Aiden's Angel will come out between May and June, 2015. I'll post more about it as the release date nears. :D

Congratulations, Sarah! (And me!)

Comments

[popkin16]

I waited for Walk A Mile to be released with a lot of impatience and excitement :P I loved Unspeakable Words :D And WaM is SO GOOD, you are going to love it. I stayed up until 6:30am to read it, and then the very next night I re-read it again.

Oooo, I can't wait for your novella to be released! It's going to be fantastic, I am sure!

*marks date on calendar*

[sarah-madison.livejournal.com]

I waited for Walk A Mile to be released with a lot of impatience and excitement :P

*blushes furiously*

I promise it won't be another four years before the next installment comes out! :-)

[popkin16]

Good :D Though if it did, I would wait!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm looking forward to reading WaM very much! I'm going to start it once I've finished my intoabar fic, so I don't spend precious writing time reading... ;)

[popkin16]

I hope you like WaM :D I'd be interested in learning what you think of it. Good luck on your intoabar fic :D

[sarah-madison.livejournal.com]

Hey! DSP is getting super-busy these days, and I've learned (even though it is very hard when you're the one waiting) to not assume they're going to reject you if you haven't heard from them in 8 weeks. Besides, super-busy is good for everyone--it means they have a healthy publishing business. :-) So congrats to you for getting a visit from the contract fairy!

You have me beaming here with your kind words about US and WAM. It occurred to me having telepathy would suck beyond belief, so it's awesome to know I managed to convey that! I'm happily working on the next in the series now, so hopefully I'll have a draft finished by the end of the year. :-)

Authorly freakouts are par for the course, m'dear. :D

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Authorly freakouts are par for the course, m'dear. :D

Yes they are, but sadly that never makes them easier to deal with. I appreciate the sympathy, though. :)

Thank you for the congratulations! Believe me, I wasn't assuming that they didn't want the novel because it looked like it might take the whole 8 weeks to hear from them--I was actually hoping that it might be going through more than one reader--but it was the not knowing one way or another that was killing me. It took days for me to remember I didn't need to check my email every five minutes just in case DSP contacted me.

Now if I could just hear from REUTS Publishing, without having to wait yet another six months... :/

[sarah-madison.livejournal.com]

That's a killer, isn't it? 8 weeks feels like a long time but nothing compared to the presses that say 6 months to a year AND no simultaneous submissions! That's a long time to sit on a story in the hopes they'll take it!

The hardest part for me to learn was to simply forget about it once it you hit 'send' and start working on the next piece. :-)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh wow - congratulations! You must be bouncing *g* That's awesome news *\o/*

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I am pretty happy, let me tell you. :D

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

Eeee, congrats on the novella sale!!!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[anna-bird.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAY for Aiden's Angel! This is wonderful news. <3 (Also congrats to your friend. :))

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You certainly helped! :D <3

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee, congrats on the official word, sweetie!! How exciting, & well-deserved! :-DDD

I will be watching for Aiden's Angel, but you mustn't forget or hesitate to pimp it when the release date nears. (I wish GoodReads let you make a "can't-wait-for-it-to-come-out" shelf for books which aren't pubbed yet so it would remind me about it. :-)

And yes, doesn't Walk A Mile sound great? I've been looking forward to reading more about John & Jerry too, both their new relationship & how they manage (or don't) to use John's unsettling ability in their work....

Edited because the rats were too scary full-size! ;-)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you very much for the clapping raccoon and celebratory rats! Much appreciated! :D also really appreciate you're eagerness to read the novella when it's available. I assure you--I'll be pimping it like a mad pimping thing. <3

[iadorespike]

Just catching up on LJ and saw this...Yay! Congratulations to both of you fine, fine published authors. :)

*hugs*

Anna

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D

Leah