Deborah's on "First Book Friday"!

[deborahjross]

jimhines has started a series called First Book Friday, with tales of that wonderful first sale. I'm up first! So scoot on over here to read my story.

About the time I finished the first draft, I joined a writer’s workshop. They tore it to shreds. I went home and cried, and then set about learning everything they could teach me. Four revisions later, I sent off Jaydium to Sheila Gilbert at DAW. And waited. And wrote the next book. And researched agents. And sold a bunch of short stories to increasingly prestigious markets. And waited some more.

Comments

[johnlevitt.livejournal.com]

Great story.

Haven't touched base in a while -- I still have my wallet.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

You just can't get rid of that thing, can you? Go to all that trouble to leave it behind and some nosy person mails it back to you!

I owe you a proper thank-you for the Christopher Isherwood, which I muchly enjoyed and which has been sitting on my desk, nagging me. Isherwood gets an amazing amount of complexity and depth into deceptively simple prose.

Next question is what's new with you... Shall I betake myself to your LJ page to find out?