A Decade of Writing

Posted by Kimberly

I did some spring cleaning this weekend (yes, wishful thinking).  I was going through the dreaded filing cabinet when I found something that made me stop and smile.  It was a copy of the deposit slip for my first ever royalty payment.  The story was Playing With Fire, a short story I wrote for Black Lace Publishing.  Wow, that brought back memories.  I still love that story, naughty as it is.  It was published in Black Lace’s Wicked Words 5 anthology, and then again in their Best of Wicked Words anthology several years later.

Funny thing is that the date on that deposit slip was 2001.  It’s now 2011.  I’ve been writing for 10 years.  A decade!  It’s hard to believe.  I still remember how stunned I was when I first found out I was going to be published.  I didn’t receive “the call” as most people put it.  A contract just showed up one day in the mail.  Now it’s been ten years.  Wow.  Just… wow.

Finished!

Posted by Kimberly

Oh, happy day!  I finished up my latest manuscript this afternoon.  What a relief.  Of course, it’s not finished finished.  I need to set it aside for a while, then go back and read it again.  Sometimes I’m just too close to the story to see the bumpy spots.  I’ll need to polish it up and finalize all the formatting.  Then it’s on to marketing it and, hopefully, editing it again.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.  I finished only five days behind schedule, and I’m happy, happy, happy.  Hopefully when I go back, the story will be pretty decent, too.