Win a copy of my story!

My first published story!

Urania, muse of Astronomy, is disconsolate: technology flourishes, but true creativity seems lost. Then she meets Daniel Kettering, an astrophysicist who shines with inspiration. But he's about to make a discovery which will threaten time, space, and every existing world.

The Olympians order Urania to carry an ultimatum for Daniel: forget your research and get eternal life. Or else. But first, Urania and Daniel have to figure out who stole Daniel's research, save the universe, and defeat Chaos. And maybe find happiness.

I think what you should take away from all these posts of mine lately is that it’s good to know the market but ultimately don’t get overwhelmingly caught up into it.

You have to be in it for the writing. If you choose to play the publishing game, which is like Monopoly with public humiliation and an unpaid electric bill, you have to remember that the only thing you control is your writing, that they only thing you can do is write the best book possible. Then if you decide you want to try to sell it, you go in knowing that the deck is stacked against you so that if you don’t sell the first or second or fifteenth time, you don’t say, “My God, I must be bad at this.” You say, “Roll the dice again, Mabel.” The five things you need to know about the business tell you that your rejection is not personal, it is not New York saying your baby is ugly, and that if you do sell and your book doesn’t do well, that’s not your fault, either. You’re playing on a board where the rules change and the dice are not only loaded, they occasionally explode.

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