From: Tina @ extasybooks
Subject: Submission
Hello
Valerie,
I
would like to offer you a contract for this story. How well it will sell, I can never
predict. That all depends on the author's
efforts to promote the story and how the readers take to it.
This email started my career as a published author of erotica. A week earlier I'd submitted Mandi to eXtasy Books, a Canadian publisher of erotic romance e-books. Like most writers, I know all about submission. Usually all it gets you is rejection. Here at last was a lovely lady saying Yes, yes, yes.
I've written enough fiction to fill a bookshelf. Until Tina's email, none of it had been offered the chance to see the light of published day. To some extent, the rejections didn't matter. I'm a writer. I write. I cherish every minute spent writing. Now, with a string of eXtasy Books contracts bearing my name, I've entered a different level of word love.
This morning I hit the keyboard at 5:30 AM, my usual weekday time. I worked the manuscript of Midas through part of the eXtasy editors' list of Ugly, Weak, or Overused Words. To me there are no ugly words, only ugly usages, but I won't argue. Searching the manuscript for each word on the list and ripping out as many as I can is a good way to tighten the language and take a fresh look at every sentence. It's one of the last things I do to a story.
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