Re: the anthology

[etoiline]

For those of you who asked...

I'm a member of the St. Louis Writers Meetup, and a while ago, since we're all aspiring to be published, we decided we would put together an anthology of short stories loosely based on something St. Louis-y. Turned out to landmarks of St. Louis, and I chose the Muny, America's oldest and largest outdoor musical theater.

My story is a fairy tale taking place mainly backstage at the Muny. One of these days I'll take another tour of the stage and see how totally off base I was about the layout, but I claim artistic license and the need to have a spiral staircase like at my high school. Hopefully it has a little bit of mystery, a lot of imagination, and not entirely sappy romance. Has to be some romance.

It's short, which is odd for me, since I seem to like writing epic-length stories. But I had a deadline of midnight last night (which I actually missed by twelve minutes, but our editor is a nice guy) and a limit of 7500 words (7407, according to my counter).

Those of you who know me won't be surprised that I wrote another fantasy. Those of you who don't...I hope that one day, when the anthology is published, you'll read it and like what I did. We possibly/probably have an actual publisher, not national or anything, but it won't be self-published. I'll let you know how that goes. Any profit will most likely go to funding our meetings, so it's not like this is a get-rich scheme ;) If you want to beta it, you'll have to ask me nicely.

Strange to not have it to work on any more. Sent it off, not my problem until edits come back. Funny how, even though I've finished NaNoWriMo twice (that's 100,000 words!) it still took me a month to write 7500.

Comments

[punzerel.livejournal.com]

Will it be buy-able, eventually?

[etoiline.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, yes, it would be buy-able, eventually. Originally when we were going to self-publish, I'm sure most of the copies would go to the authors themselves, to give away as gifts. But if we do actually get publishing-company published, I think it will be available, either through the company, or if we're going whole-hog, on Amazon. *crosses fingers*

[tigerlily25.livejournal.com]

Wow!!! This is amazing jen and I can't wait for the publishing to push through..Finally, everything is falling into place and dear next time you might want to pop and say hi to me at ym..not just sewing..you know what i mean?;) Love you hun!!Take care