Comments on: About that time http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/ Writing in all its forms Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:20:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Karmela http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1328 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:16:39 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1328 S -- do you realize that DR is Bombshell #100??? A double-milestone indeed! Karm S — do you realize that DR is Bombshell #100??? A double-milestone indeed!

Karm

]]> by: Mary http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1299 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:01:08 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1299 Thanks for elaborating, Sandra! I REALLY loved The Orchid Hunter and I'm looking forward to Dead Reckoning! Thanks for elaborating, Sandra! I REALLY loved The Orchid Hunter and I’m looking forward to Dead Reckoning!

]]> by: Sandra http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1295 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:23:52 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1295 Mary, please keep in mind that those first seven rewrites were me learning to write a commercial novel. I wasn't too bright about it when I first got started -- I just kinda thought that I'd be able to instinctively write a sellable novel. Silly me. So I chased down rabbit trail after rabbit trail until I finally snapped to the fact that I needed to actually graph out some SIMs in order to figure out how they're structured. Once I did that, everything fell into place....just in time to convert the whole shebang into a Bombshell. :::::Sigh::::: Three revisions for your agent sounds lovely, Mary. Best of luck to you! Mary, please keep in mind that those first seven rewrites were me learning to write a commercial novel. I wasn’t too bright about it when I first got started — I just kinda thought that I’d be able to instinctively write a sellable novel.

Silly me.

So I chased down rabbit trail after rabbit trail until I finally snapped to the fact that I needed to actually graph out some SIMs in order to figure out how they’re structured. Once I did that, everything fell into place….just in time to convert the whole shebang into a Bombshell.

:::::Sigh:::::

Three revisions for your agent sounds lovely, Mary. Best of luck to you!

]]> by: Mary http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1291 Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:49:13 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1291 NINE TIMES? NINE TIMES??? ::::THUD:::: I'm not feeling so bad now about the 3 revisions for my agent.... NINE TIMES? NINE TIMES???

::::THUD::::

I’m not feeling so bad now about the 3 revisions for my agent….

]]> by: Sandra http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1284 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:18:21 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/06/about-that-time/#comment-1284 I was really pleased with several things. First, I got to keep my title. It turned out there were some marketing reasons why they wanted the title to change, but I made a strong case for keeping it because I wrote much of the story around the nautical concept of <i>dead reckoning</i>. Then the Title Gods had mercy on me and I got to keep DR. Yay! Second, during the dark days when I was having to come up with alternative titles, I had thrown in "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," which I knew was far, far too long but actually did kind of reflect some of the action. And my editor chose that for the cover blurb, which was really very nice. Third, the cover is based on the very first scene of the book, which made hooking up the image to <a href="http://www.sandrakmoore.com/bookshelf/DR/excerpt.htm" rel="nofollow">the blurb</a> very handy indeed.... I was really pleased with several things.

First, I got to keep my title. It turned out there were some marketing reasons why they wanted the title to change, but I made a strong case for keeping it because I wrote much of the story around the nautical concept of dead reckoning. Then the Title Gods had mercy on me and I got to keep DR. Yay!

Second, during the dark days when I was having to come up with alternative titles, I had thrown in “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” which I knew was far, far too long but actually did kind of reflect some of the action. And my editor chose that for the cover blurb, which was really very nice.

Third, the cover is based on the very first scene of the book, which made hooking up the image to the blurb very handy indeed….

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