holy crap, I'm plotzing!
Seriously, I think I'm dreaming. Did I have a stroke & pass into the land of Oz? I keep pinching myself, & it definitely hurts, but maybe I'm just imagining the pain in my unconscious, dream-like state.I got another phone call. (You know, for a girl who normally hates the phone & will only answer if I think it's going to be important, I am suddenly starting to form a real fondness for that little invention.) This time, my agent says he has some new & very good news for me.
Okay, I'm at a complete loss as to what it could be, but I'm totally willing to listen.
There's this anthology being put together...maybe more of a collection, really...for HarperCollins, of hot, sexy paranormal stories. Kim Harrison (OMG, Kim Harrison!) & Marty Greenberg are editing, & there are going to be a number of other very big, bestselling, headlining authors involved. (Remember those "Love in Vein" paranormal erotica collections a few years ago, the ones Poppy Z. Brite edited? Well, it's sort of like that, only they want to go in much more of a romance direction this time. I think, if I understand correctly.)
Anyway, he got me in! My agent got me into this fabulous, wonderful, sure to be a blockbuster collection of sexy paranormal stories. I will not be one of the headliners. In fact, I sort of envision a cover with very large font announcing, "Edited by Kim Harrison & Marty Greenberg...with stories by [Very Big Name Author], [Another Very Big Name Author], & others..." I will, of course, be one of the "others," named only on the Table of Contents page. LOL
But who cares?!? I am going to be working with...involved with...linked to...some of the biggest names in the business. And I get to write a hot, sexy paranormal story--which, with that many authors involved, probably won't even need to be very long. I already know what I'll write, too. I actually worked up a proposal a while back for a very sexy dragon novella, & my agent said it will be perfect. Weeeeee!
I was too dazed to ask for any of the pertinent details while we were on the phone. I have no idea when the deadline will be, or when the book will be out, or even who some of the other authors are. And at the moment, I don't care. I'm sure I'll find out when I need to know.
And get this...Kim Harrison (OMG, Kim Harrison!) is going to be contacting me. Don't know when, don't know how, but Kim. Harrison. Me. In touch. E-mailing. Talking. Appearing together between the covers of a book.
Oh, yeah, I'm plotzing, all right.
And I almost forgot! The title of the anthology--at least at the moment--is HOTTER THAN HELL. How cool is that?!? :-D
