I think this has been driving me nuts enough that now I’m ready to just SEND a query to get the first one over with. I know two agents I’m really interested in working with. My genre and style fits well with other clients they have.

One of those agents only wants queries and information via paper and snail mail. And they aren’t accepting unplublished author queries until April. So I can’t actually send anything until the end of the month anyway.

The other agent takes email queries only. Response time is listed as two-three weeks. My guess is with the WIP at 50% complete, IF I hear from them to request a partial or full, it won’t be for a few weeks. The partial isn’t a big deal, I can crank that out. The full is SUPPOSED to be done by 3/31 in at least rough form.

So I’m thinking I’ll just send the danged query letter now and get back to work on the book. I drafted it up and sent it to my crit partner (hi Jaynie) to let her give me the suck/no suck judgement.

Argh – I think I spent the whole morning either trying to stay awake or second guessing myself….

Well, time for coffee and back to polishing the written parts of RWH so I can get back into it and back to writing. I want to get that sex scene finished.

So – eXtasy Book’s page has disappeared temporarily as they work through the woes caused by their non-paying book distributor EBook Ad. They are getting their replacement site up and should be back online shortly.

Their plan for a smooth transition became toast when their distributor decided to just delete their site during the 30 days notice they gave to cease their business agreement.

But Morgan Hawke (personal idol) says it better than I do. Of course she often does. So please check out her blog to get a whole timeline of what has gone on.

Got home from our friends’ house last night but just didn’t seem able to focus. So I’m still at 47% and editing now. I can sort of do that in chunks when M isn’t pestering me. I’ll have to try to write more later tonight after M goes to bed since C will be out this evening and tomorrow afternoon/evening as well.

Sometimes I’m far too distractable.

I am hoping to get to 50% tomorrow night before bed. I might be a bit hindered by the fact we have dinner at a friend’s house so most of the evening will be without writing time. But oh well.

I really do want to finish by 3/31 so I can meet my goal.

I did discover that reading the story out loud made certain issues stand out to me. I was reading some chapters to C this evening and found that out. Maybe I’ll be the nutty writer reading her stories to her cats!

But it’s 1:50 am now, time for bed.

Today was the last day with my current group at my day job. They are nice folks and I’ll miss them as well as miss seeing the projects and theories we’ve introduced come to fruition.

To say goodbye, they took me to a restaurant called Claim Jumper. This place serves HUGE portions and I was trying hard to not go nuts. I did pretty well – until my boss and co-workers decided that I HAD to have their 6 layer chocolate cake “Motherload” for dessert. We’re talking about something over a foot tall.

I tried to beg off but they ordered it anyway. Pictures were taken, I ate 1/6 of it with lunch and about died. The rest I got packed up to take home (along with the rest of my lunch).

I did manage to finish packing my office, in spite of my desire to lock the door and take a nap on the floor.

But I’m sure my week will suck as far as dieting….