Last night I went into an editing frenzy because I have a publisher interested in publishing some of my stories into an anthology. I decided I was going to clean up a story I wrote a while ago. In horror, after considerable time, I discovered that while I have 20 paper copies of the story, I have no electronic copy! I raised poofs of dust and mounds of floppy disks. I found stories I'd written right after this one, but not this story! And it is not such a short story either, but around 6K which I now have to type in by hand, not even knowing if I have a final version or not. I did see a hand edited version of this one, but it was too horrible to contemplate. This was the only clean final I had. The good news is I've come a long way since my former self and can see many errors and repetitions that I couldn't see then. So maybe I can edit it fairly painlessly once I get it typed in.

Writers, don't lose your backups! If that editor comes calling you won't be ready for your publishing contract!


12 Days of Romance –  Day 11!

Do you want to win some fantastic holiday reading? Of course you do. If so come celebrate the Twelve days of Romance with 12 authors from Ellora's Cave, Wild Rose Press, Total-E-Bound and Cerridwen Press. Each day beginning December 8th and running through December 19th one of the twelve authors will tell what their "True love gave to them" on either their blog or website.

Collect all twelve answers and e-mail them to anny@annycook.com with 12 days of Romance in the subject line to win some great books. There will be three lucky winners.

The prizes –1st prize--6 books 2nd prize--4 books 3rd prize--2 books. All books and prize winners will be drawn randomly.

Anny Cook Winter Hearts
Sandra Cox Boji Stones
Bronwyn Green Ronan's Grail
Heather Hiestand Cards Never Lie
Barbara Huffert Deal of a Lifetime
Amarinda Jones Mad About Mirabelle
Kelly Kirch Time for Love
Cindy Spencer Pape Cowboy's Christmas Bride
Brynn Paulin Fallen
Jacquéline Roth Access Denied
KZ Snow Mrs. Claws
Lacey Thorn Earth Moves

All answers must be received no later than the stroke of midnight 21st December (Northern hemisphere time) or worlds collide and you don’t want to be responsible for that now do you?

 

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