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| In an effort to boost my potential job moral, I will be doing more blogging starting today. I have been on Indeed.com looking for online jobs I can get with my AA in creative writing. As for job experience, the only one I ever had was my courtesy clerk job at Albertson's I held as a teenager. Technically, I have affiliate marketing background too. I worked for a company called Wealthy Affiliate for about eight months. lol. I did online research for merchandise where I wrote related articles on the items I promoted. Nevertheless, I never sold anything. lol. However, I just applied for a freelance writer job. The only requirements was a high school diploma. My AA in creative writing is a plus! I read that the response time is 8 to 9 days. I am hopeful. I am still waiting for a response from my editor, Jessica. We need to schedule for a zoom meeting and get my proposal to the Seymour Agency. It seems to have the simplest submission process. I texted the president and she clarified how many sample pages are needed. Apparently, she cordially said I can give as many as I am comfortable to submit. (= She wants me to "cc" her when I send my proposal to one of the agents. I do not know what she means. lol. I will clarify with Jessica. I have a cavity needing a filling tomorrow at 11 am. Not looking forward to it. lol. Hopefully, they will not find any more. i just noticed my listed genres are biographical, experience and philosophy. Honestly, I can only say I do experience. lol. I am trying to type correctly with placing my fingers where they are supposed to be. I do not chicken peck, but I usually have to look at the keyboard when I type. It is a matter of patience and practice. It is fun when you are doing it right. lol. Well, that is it for now. I hope to generate more relevant content in the future. See yah tomorrow! |
| Well, God is good. I went to my retina doc and I had a small hole in my retina. I got laser treatment for it but it adversely got a reduction in eye sight. My sight is blurry in my right eye. Hopefully this will pass. If not, I may opt to get new glasses. As it is my prescription is very, very strong. I am a little upset with this matter. I left a message for the ophthalmologist office, and they are supposed to get back to me within 48 hours. For some reason, they called my mom's number, and she missed the call. I left a message giving my own number. I was looking online for a work-from-home writing job and I came across an inviting job offer. However, it seems too good to be true. I left the URL for the job so my editor, Jessica, can take a look and weigh in on the prospect. I am almost ready to have a zoom meeting with her and go over my manuscript. I wrote my pitch for my book. It is about 75 words long. It is as follows: The wise Arch Sage Thaylus lives at odds with the false pagan gods worshiped in his realm of Khrine. He desperately seeks a true deity that will save Khrine from evil spiritual entities and fill his spiritual longing and overcome his struggle with faith. Eventually he comes to believe in the one God who dwells in a heavenly realm of the Gate of Vessels. But will the rest of Khrine acknowledge this God as well? I'll tell my pitch to Jessica and see what she thinks. A book pitch is supposed to be as brief as possible. I think the general length is 100 words or less. My first choice to query to is the The Seymour Agency because the turnaround time is three weeks. If I do not here from them by them that means I have been rejected. My next choice is the Steve Laube Agency. If I send a hard copy to him, I will get a response from him within three months. The Bible says "Seek and ye shall find." I know I'll get an agent eventually. Well, that is it for tonight. See yah tomorrow. |
| Wow, it's been a while. Pretty much everything is the same. That is except for my latest development-I finished going through my book edits! I noticed my editor, Jessica, made lots of changes to my story. Don't get me wrong, they made my book absolutely beautiful. But they were quite considerable and thus I cannot take credit for the whole final product. Now that I have done the edits, I was instructed to do myself I am inquiring about one of the services mentioned on the contract which is a final overlook on Jessica's part. I do not think she will do a full manuscript look over, so I have to see what that service entails. The next step is querying/proposal part. I plan to publish traditionally which is a free process. Indie authoring costs money and my editing job put me a little over $2,000 in the whole. I am really praying I will get a decent advance. I read somewhere on a site a debut book will run from about $5,000 to $10,000. That seems a bit wishful to me. I read somewhere else the range is $2,000 to $5,000. That is more believable. lol. On another note, I am considering taking up driving again. That is part of my plan to move out of my pedants' house. The bigger part is to get a work from home/computer job. I cannot do a regular in person job like a retail gig. The stress from customers and complex responsibilities would give me an anxiety attack. It does not take much to get me riled up. I had to quite my first job as a bagger as a teenager because of this affliction. Jesus is with me and I must remember that. lol. Well, that is it for now, See you tomorrow! |
| It has been a couple of days. lol. Burt, I am happy to say my editor, Jessica, has finished with my story. So far, I have gone through roughly one-fourth of it and it looks spectacular! She knows her stuff. Just today, I have paid her the rest of the payment for her services. Honestly, I would have expected a more expensive charge on Jessica's end; she did that much. She likes my writing very much. I know I can trust her word because she won the Genesis award for a fiction work of hers. And she is represented by an agent who is part of one of the biggest Christian publishing agencies in the US. I did some quick research on my iPhone and the average first time traditionally published author has an advance from anywhere from $5k to $!0k. I read somewhere else it is $2k to $5k. I suppose it depends on who you ask. lol. I will be revisiting my current book situation in the future. For those who know the Lord, keep me in prayer. See you tomorrow! |
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