Well, not everything -- that would be much too long and boring -- only what's been going on in my writing life since my last LJ entry, which was me asking what everyone thought of my virtual book cover for Great Aunt Ida's Revenge. Well, you liked it, and it seemed so did many of the kind folk at authonomy because they voted the novel up into last month's top five books on the site. This has put Ida on the HarperCollins Editor's Desk and will reward me before the month's end with a Critique/Review from a HarperCollins editor.

*bites nails*

With this on the non too distant horizon, I need to say thank you to any friends and writing colleagues who've joined the authonomy community and added to it in the way HarperCollins intended: by reading and commenting and voting. I also need to say thank you to the majority of voters who put the book up there (number three at midnight, Sept 30th). That is those people who don't know me from Adam yet who liked my story enough to put it up on their bookshelves for all the world to see.

Thank you. I am truly indebted.

You've all given me a chance to learn something new, a something that's worth its weight in gold: what a major publisher thinks about my work. This will help me move forward with my writing, I just know, and will help bring it up to a standard that will definitely see one of my novels in print before long. One can't buy that kind of knowledge and you've all given me the privilege.

I wish I could buy you all a drink. You've earned it.

Thoughts?

No WIFAHADIA words released from the depths of the muse during the last couple of days as my current WiP has been put aside in favour of the first 10k of Great Aunt Ida's Revenge. I am polishing the extract to within an inch of its life before it leaves my hands and enters a private beta site run by Harper Collins.

Anyone interested in joining said site, please post a comment and I'll get an invite out to you.

Back to The Bridge tomorrow. Can't wait.