Next time you go to the movies, be on the lookout for The Graveyard Queen video. It’ll be shown before the trailers in limited theaters, but I don’t yet have a list. It would totally freak me out to see it on the big screen. O_O
Here is the updated version:
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And so the waiting begins…
After a two-week bout with the flu, I finally finished my new proposals and sent them to my agent, who in turn passed them along to my editor. They’ll talk about them on Monday, but it will undoubtedly be weeks before negotiations commence in earnest because it’s a loooog process.
Just to complicate matters, my editor is a senior editor but not for the lines I’m submitting to. She has to read and approve both proposals and then send them on to the senior editors of those lines. If approved at that stage, each project will then be discussed in a series of editorial and marketing meetings. It’s pretty daunting.
Anyway, suffice to say, I won’t know anything about either project for a while. I know that, but I’m still anxious.
One of the proposals is for a YA. I’ve never written a young adult and I really, really, REALLY want to. I love the story and my agent seems excited about it, so fingers crossed. I’ve talked about it before in this blog. It involves soul migration, butterfly and moth imagery and a coma patient protagonist named Mazzy Nightingale. The first book is tentatively titled Chrysalis.
Not to put the cart before the horse, but this afternoon I worked on a mood board for the story. Here is what I have of the collage so far. Click on the arrow to hear the soundtrack while you view the images:
I find it ironic that just as I embark on a new healthy lifestyle, I’m stricken with the first case of the flu I’ve had in years. Achy joints, headaches, nausea, congestion…the whole messy shebang. I wanted to be all prairie woman and just plow right on through my current synopsis, but alas, my stoicism lasted maybe half a day before self-pity set in and I took to Twitter to share my misery in hashtags. #ThisSux #ImmaGoBarfNow #WhyGodWhy.
Four days in and this is about as much energy as I can muster:
However, the one good thing about feeling like crap is guilt-free TV. Thanks to Hulu, I’m catching up on some of the shows I missed while on deadline. I’ve watched five episodes of Grimm and already I’m starting to lose interest. The premise is intriguing, the visuals are stunning, and the Portland setting is suitably lush, moody and atmospheric. I was pulled right in until I realized that every episode has virtually the same plot–defeating a monster–and the stories become so grounded in police procedural that fantasy is sacrificed. I need a little more magic and enchantment and a faster-building arc. I’ll give it a couple more episodes before I switch over to Once Upon a Time. I also understand two movies based on Snow White are due out this spring, so for you writers already on board the fairytale bandwagon…kudos!
