So the new novel is finished and in the mail. My agent has it now. From there, who knows?
Anyone who has kept up with me here knows that the last five years have been, well, dismal publishing-wise. The situation became even more complicated in 2008 when the global economy fell into the toilet and publishing began to look like a front-line regiment in WWI. Everyone in the field watched in horror at the casualty figures as an industry that had seemed to be doing pretty well began hemorrhaging at the pores.
Naturally, I’ve been trying to think of What To Do Next in order to stave off professional oblivion. …