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I just put together a packet to submit my novel (really trilogy) to TOR. I have mixed feelings about TOR, but they publish a lot of fantasy and YA fantasy. So...

I'm still waiting to hear from three agents and expect to be stalled indefinitely by the agent I've been working with since the beginning. So waiting to hear from two agents and not hear from one is probably the size of it.

I need to make a few changes to the ms and then start querying again. Putting together this packet was a good way to get my head back in the right space. Unfortunately Saturdays are a bad day to try and work at the coffee shop, at least until about 2pm. The place is packed with weekenders.

I have to reknit a small white Totoro and I'd like to join the gym and see how that goes. I'm terrified that I'll just end up in a world of pain, but I have to try. The nice thing is that they have a sauna and a hot tub and hopefully those things will help with the pain. It's so weird that I used to run long distance and hike 14k foot mountains. Where did that body go and why am I trapped in this one?

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Oh, I tend to like a lot of what TOR puts out. TOR and Orbit are two of my eternal faves. Good luck!

I sent out the first of a new round of queries on the cookbook today...

And man, do I hear you about "where did my old body go and how did I get trapped in this one." I don't like it, Sam I Am.

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TOR has a weird kerfuffle a while back that left me with MEH feelings about them. They publish some people with views I find incredibly offensive, but I guess I'd be hard pressed to find a publisher that didn't.

We will be query mates. Slogging along. Ruining our livers.

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I still trust TOR rather more than I do Night Shade at this point, which is sad, because I loved their books.

And I hear you on the "offensive people" thing, but...well...there will always be people out there whose personal views I find abhorrent, who still manage to write wonderful prose, and someone will always be out there publishing it. I don't judge a house on the behaviour of its authors.

Querymates! Yes! Let's do it. I'll go get the gin.

Vodka for me please. I really find gin icky.

It's a matter of finding the right gin - I always thought it smelled like turpentine and tasted worse, until I was introduced to actual GOOD gin. But you have to like very crisp, aromatic liquors to like it, so it's still not for everyone.

How are you with bourbon?

I LOVE BOURBON!

HOORAY WE SHALL DRINK BOURBON TOGETHER.

I especially love Lynchburg Lemonades.

I usually just do bourbon on the rocks or bourbon and ginger, but that DOES sound good right now...

A couple of weeks ago my physical therapist (for my neck) asked if I belonged to a gym with a pool and I asked, "No, why? Should I be swimming?" and he said, no, for the hot tub. :D My gym does have a sauna...

:D I used to use the hot tub and sauna all the time when I belonged.

I told my PT that I was going to insist to my husband that we needed to install one ourselves, purely for therapeutic purposes, of course... :D

I wholly approve of this idea!!

GYYYYYYM. I used to LOVE the sauna and hot tub at Healthworks, but then Tasha moved to New York and now I don't have anyone to gossip with while I soak, so I just get bored.

I'm going to join Healthworks, but only go at non-peak times. Do you go at peak or non-peak? And do you know what they are?

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Peak hours are around 6-8 AM and 5-7 PM. They CLAIM peak hours are longer than that, but even peak hours aren't that bad. By 7 PM on weekdays the gym's usually emptied out a LOT. I've never gone before 9 AM, because I like to sleep in the morning, but when I was unemployed I would go at 11 AM or 1 PM and it would be mostly empty. There'd be a small crowd in for the classes, mostly older women, and a couple people meandering around the ellipticals.

When I go RIGHT after work (5:30 or 6), sometimes I have to wait fifteen minutes or so for a treadmill. That's the worst I've ever seen it. I really like going later in the evening, 7 or 8 PM, so I can just chill out on the treadmill and watch NCIS or whatever for an hour.

That said, I've seriously considered taking a long lunch break and working extra hours at night so I could go to the gym in the early afternoon again. Non-peak is pretty damn nice. And you'll get more attention from the trainers who teach the less popular mid-day classes. I went to a core class one time that was just me and one other woman. It was FANTASTIC.

Yeah, ideally I would like to start going around 10 or 11am and working on the ellipticals and taking some yoga. I think this is going to be my 40th birthday present to myself this year. :D

I just put together a packet to submit my novel (really trilogy) to TOR. I have mixed feelings about TOR, but they publish a lot of fantasy and YA fantasy. So...

Oh, this is so fantastic! I would love to see your Medusa tale there. :) (E-mail me why you have mixed feelings?)

*sending love about the rest* I just took the day off and slept mostly.

Tor was mixed up in the Racefail stuff that happened a few years ago. It kind of tainted them for me. But I suspect every publisher has some associations that would make me unhappy.

Good luck!

I want some potatoes.

My potatoes au gratin were so so. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

Ahahaha, I am soooo curious about what your mixed feelings are, re: Tor. Who are you thinking of submitting to?

I promise I will read it very very soon. It's just, clients keep turning in their damn manuscripts on time, and those always jump to the front of the list. Sorryyyyy.

There was some cross over to TOR during Racefail09. It made me leery of buying their books. I'll be submitting to the "YA Submissions Editor" and I'll get thrown in a huge pile of ms's.

Oh, gosh. Please don't worry about it. I wasn't complaining about you at all. I think you haven't been around for the years of frustration with the agent I started out with. She promises me she'll read and then won't answer my emails and doesn't get back to me at all. This go round she gave the new draft to her intern to read. I've almost completely given up on her. I don't mind waiting to hear back, but she never gets back to me. Then she emails me out of the blue and asks me how it's going and asks for my next rewrite. O_O She's a friend, but yesh.

Oh no, I didn't think you were complaining! I just wanted to say that I hadn't forgotten. :)

And yeah, I know industry folk like that. It's pretty irritating, but... eh, what can you do?

There's at least one person associated with TOR that I'd have trouble sharing a cordial drink with, but for the most part, they fail because they're trying. (Not trying to fail, but trying and failing.) This is, unfortunately, from their side, the reason why they got all flouncy crazed when they perceived themselves to be portrayed as on the Wrong Side.

(eugh. I think my comma-shaker got too much of a workout up there.)

*sigh*

Yeah, my lovely athletic body got stolen by the Crohn's Gnomes.

UGH!! I've been avoiding going back to the gastro doc for ages. I really have to do it though.

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