Query Hiatus (11/15 to 1/5)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Query Hiatus (11/15 to 1/5)

It's happened. I've managed to bury myself under a pile of requested material and client manuscripts and of course those TBR books, and I'm pretty sure I might not be able to move around until I read my way out.

There are also those things called holidays coming up and I'm moving apartments so after torturous amounts of deliberation, I'm going to take a brief query hiatus from November 15th to January 5th.

This means any query that comes in between those dates (11/15 to 1/5) will get response saying something along the lines of "Hey I'm on hiatus, re-query on 1/6" and will then be deleted from my inbox.

14 comments:

Josin L. McQuein said...: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

*ahem*

I mean... Darn. Bad timing, that.

;-P

(It's your own fault for being in demand, you know.); November 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Janet Johnson said...: I'm only surprised this hasn't happened sooner. :) Good luck getting though it all!; November 10, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Sharon K. Mayhew said...: Happy reading, good luck with the move, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Will you be blogging?; November 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM
KT said...: Dang! And I was hoping to query you at the end of this month :( Guess I'll just have to wait until January! Hope you're loving life during your break :); November 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM
Elaine AM Smith said...: Happy Holidays! Enjoy your reading.; November 11, 2010 at 4:24 AM
Nerine Dorman said...: LOL! You'll be back by the time I have my next query ready. Good luck with the move and all the reading.; November 11, 2010 at 4:59 AM
Madscientist254 said...: Good luck with all of it. Find us a good one in that pile.

We won't stalk you to badly, but stealthily hiding in the shadows of your blog posts I hope is acceptable. ;); November 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Heather said...: Um, golly. That's a lot! Good luck and maybe add some vitamin C to the orange soda? That's a bunch of stress on you this season.
Hope the reading is at least enjoyable!
Heather; November 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Nikki said...: Oh, Suzie. This *almost* makes me feel bad about the new manuscript I'm getting ready to send you. Almost... Bwa ha ha ha ha!!
Have fun moving!; November 11, 2010 at 5:47 PM
lotusgirl said...: Good luck with the move, and Happy Holidays. Maybe my MS will be ready to query by the time you get back.; November 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Roberta Walker said...: Well isn't that Karma? My query package is finally ready! Nervous and scared as hell, but ready (I think) to jump in head first.; November 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Shayda Bakhshi said...: Actually, I'm a lot less stressed out, now! :) I've got my first graduate residency at VCFA the last half of January, and I'm planning to workshop SPITFIRE, so it'll be all ready to go when you're open to queries again!

(Or it should be. Provided I start on those revisions. *runs off to revise*); November 13, 2010 at 2:28 AM
Richard Levangie said...: Damn. On the very day you would have received mine.

It speaks well of you, I think, that you were still on my list. I started compiling it back in February when I first started writing, and you've remained there through revision #5. I've done a great deal of reading and research before settling on a final few, and you made the cut.

Good luck! Perhaps I'll see you in January. :-); November 15, 2010 at 6:58 AM
cyndydrew said...: Criminy! Moving bites. Hopefully, though, you're movin' on up...?; November 23, 2010 at 3:53 PM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Confessions

Wednesday, November 10, 2010