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I got the good news back at the end of December but I think it's safe to tell people now! 

Over the last four years, I wrote an original story. When it was finally finished, Cat and I both really liked it, enough to send it off to the LGBTQ publisher Bold Strokes Books to see what they thought. I figured every aspiring author should get a novel rejected at least once in their lives so I sat back and waited for the inevitable. Three months later I spent a good few minutes staring at the BSB response sitting in my inbox before finally clicking to open the damn thing. Let's just say that it wasn't quite what I was expecting... ;-)

So, Snowbound, my first novel is now scheduled for publication with BSB on December 13th, 2011 *happy dance*

The story is set up here in the North of England during a severe winter storm. Two women get caught up in the aftermath of a botched robbery and end up stranded and fighting for their lives. It's an f/f romance, adventure, thriller mix-up with a healthy dose of hurt/comfort (surprise *g*) and hopefully a decent sense of humour.

BSB already had a 'CJ' so I had to pick a whole new name (harder than you think once you try and do it!) Much scratching of heads, giggling and flicking through the telephone directory later and I'm now Cari Hunter - not too dissimilar to my own first name so with a bit of luck (even after a night shift), I'll remember it's me.  

After a whirlwind month of trying to get my head around everything (still trying, mainly failing!) I have an author's page over at BSB with a bit of a bio and a teaser on it and a new lj/author's blog set up. 

Oh, I also have a cover! Which is still making me smile... I have a COVER! For my novel. How the hell did that happen? ;-)








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Date: 2011-03-19 08:34 am (UTC)
ext_39897: Andrew Buchan as John Mercer, holding a gun (Derek - Smile)
From: [identity profile] lamaudite.livejournal.com
How did I miss that? Goes to show how disruptive having the inlaws here for many weeks every year is! They left Tuesday and now I'm catching up...

Congratulations! How cool is that! Wow! You must be on a cloud up above somewhere! Heheheee!

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Date: 2011-03-24 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cj2017.livejournal.com
Heh thanks. I think there was a big rush of glee and now it's like waiting for the other shoe to drop because I'm waiting to hear from my editor and I have no idea what she's going to say! That and the past 60 hours of days/nights have certainly been successful at keeping my feet firmly grounded ;-)

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Date: 2011-06-16 01:52 am (UTC)
ext_39897: Andrew Buchan as John Mercer, holding a gun (Derek - Sideways)
From: [identity profile] lamaudite.livejournal.com
Sorry to hear that. Hope your hours are (a bit) more back to normal...

Heard back from your editor?

Sorry if you posted about this in a later entry. I've been dreadful at keeping up with LJ. Can't seem to manage to squeeze some free time for it anymore.

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Date: 2011-06-17 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cj2017.livejournal.com
No probs, not much has been happening really! Not heard anything from my editor aside from a note to say she was getting through the manuscript and hoped to get some notes to me soon. The book reading in Nottingham is 4 weeks away which should be fun and scary in equal measures and we're just about to head to Switzerland for two weeks so the shifts are absolutely fabulous (because I don't have any *g*)

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