My writing has gone by the wayside where The Shepherdess Princess is concerned. I want to revise it some more before I send it off to the final three possible agents on my list. I have been wanting to go back to working on my manuscript, but other stuff takes priority first.
I am still writing, of sorts...
I'm looking for grants for a family friend to start a homeless shelter in my hometown. The grant applications I've applied for on her behalf have been misses, so I'm still searching for grants coming out in 2017. She hasn't raised any money towards opening the shelter through grant funds yet, but there is a donation jar that she put out at her place of business for anybody who wants to donate to the shelter project.
I have one potential grant application to turn in come July 2017 that could give her all the funding she needs to open up. It is so far off that in the meantime I will be looking for grant applications due earlier in the year. February or March is the earliest I'm pushing for because that will give me all the time I need to get all the additional paperwork that gets included in the grant applications attachments.
Not much new has been going on since my last update. I can't believe Christmas is just a few days away, and the year is ending so soon.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to all!
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Finally, a Blog Update...
It's been a long time since I updated my readers on this blog because I've had no news to share. I'm still searching for a literary agent for my book. I'm still waiting to hear back from several of them that I contacted three months ago.
I was able to bulk up my manuscript for "The Shepherdess Princess" some since I started contacting possible agents. I'm hoping the new pages, which is very close to the publishing standards for a novel, will help me get an agent very soon. I noted the changes to the last ten query letters I sent out three months ago, and have yet to hear back from four of the ten agents.
Over the last couple weeks, my priorities have shifted. I am helping an owner of a local thrift store, and a friend of the family for several years, get a grant so she could open up a homeless shelter in my hometown. She already has a possible location for the shelter, the neighbors are excited at the prospect of having it there, and she's going to use part of the space to expand her business. She gets so many item donations from people she knows that she has had to turn back some donations in the past, so she has the inventory already for the expansion. I should have the grant application sent off this week for her.
She is going to be compensating me for the work I've been doing, but we haven't discussed how much she is going to pay me for it. I offered to volunteer my services since she doesn't make a lot of money because she gives so much back to the community, but she wouldn't hear of it.
I was able to bulk up my manuscript for "The Shepherdess Princess" some since I started contacting possible agents. I'm hoping the new pages, which is very close to the publishing standards for a novel, will help me get an agent very soon. I noted the changes to the last ten query letters I sent out three months ago, and have yet to hear back from four of the ten agents.
Over the last couple weeks, my priorities have shifted. I am helping an owner of a local thrift store, and a friend of the family for several years, get a grant so she could open up a homeless shelter in my hometown. She already has a possible location for the shelter, the neighbors are excited at the prospect of having it there, and she's going to use part of the space to expand her business. She gets so many item donations from people she knows that she has had to turn back some donations in the past, so she has the inventory already for the expansion. I should have the grant application sent off this week for her.
She is going to be compensating me for the work I've been doing, but we haven't discussed how much she is going to pay me for it. I offered to volunteer my services since she doesn't make a lot of money because she gives so much back to the community, but she wouldn't hear of it.
Monday, May 16, 2016
A New Update! (Finally!)
I can't believe the last time I posted a blog entry was last November. I'm still searching for a literary agent. I've contacted 30 agents total so far, and have had no takers. I still have about 20 more to contact on a list I compiled when I began the search. All of the agents I have heard back from think the novel is good, but it's not what they are interested in themselves. They do encourage me to keep searching because they know someone else might love it enough to represent it. A few of them have even said they wouldn't mind seeing it on the shelf of a bookstore someday, but, again, they had too many clients already and weren't taking any new authors at the moment.
I have been doing some editing to The Shepherdess Princess because it is still a little shorter than the publishing companies recommend. I was planning to add more to my manuscript file on Microsoft Word today, but I forgot my notebook at home so I will have to wait to do that later.
I haven't written anything new in months. I don't think it's writers block. I've been sick twice with the flu, and twice with a really bad head cold over the last couples months. Then, I had allergies to complicate matters. The important thing is I'm feeling well enough to pick up a pen again, and I hope to work on one of my writing projects this weekend.
I have been doing some editing to The Shepherdess Princess because it is still a little shorter than the publishing companies recommend. I was planning to add more to my manuscript file on Microsoft Word today, but I forgot my notebook at home so I will have to wait to do that later.
I haven't written anything new in months. I don't think it's writers block. I've been sick twice with the flu, and twice with a really bad head cold over the last couples months. Then, I had allergies to complicate matters. The important thing is I'm feeling well enough to pick up a pen again, and I hope to work on one of my writing projects this weekend.
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