I read both chapters today (at work) I am so naughty!!! I loved the mood and the pace you have set. MORE!!!! Who are these shirts who rejected this book!!!! Lets gang up on them and have some one put the bite on them.... Keep it up! Say will you be at the Fest? and if so will you autograph your book Dream of the Dark for me?
Yep, yer naughty, Ldyanne. Keep it up.
This novel was not rejected; the
DS book series itself was cancelled by HarperCollins, and no other publisher made a commitment to pick it up (with the possible exception of Tor, but even that has so far failed to produce any results). The editor at Harper knew about the proposal for
Labyrinth, and since we worked well together on
Dreams of the Dark, there's every possibility this one would have been accepted. But that became a moot point when Harper was bought out, the
DS series (and several others) cancelled, and the editor moved elsewhere.
If time allows, I might one day complete
Labyrinth as a work of fan fiction, but I have to put priority on paying projects, since writing is, in a very real sense, a job. Fortunately, it's not my only source of income, or I
would be starving
; but time being such a limited commodity, it's business first, fun second. The best thing about writing part-time is that the two often go together.
Alas, no festival for me this year. Now that the young'un is out of college and paying her own bills (mostly), Peg and I are planning to go on a cruise to the Bahamas and Mexico later in the year. That's going to eat up the travel budget for quite some time. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Hoping to get to the fest and/or Tarrytown next year, though.
