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Do new contracts qualify for a Snoopy Dance? New sales, definitely, but I'm not sure about receiving the actual contracts. After all, those require work. Then again, they also solidify a new deal, so there should probably be a celebration of some kind. If not Snoopy, how about a Woodstock Dance? :-)

The contracts for my new aggreement with St. Martin's Press arrived today. Now, this is technically a three-book deal, which usually means I'd get one contract covering all the details of all three books in the offer. But this time, for some reason I have yet to understand, St. Martin's decided to put each of the three books on a separate contract & to send those contracts in quadruplicate rather than triplicate.

Oooh, this big, wild single title world really is different. LOL

I glanced through them as soon as they arrived, of course--curiosity just would not allow me to ignore them--but after about three pages, my eyes began to cross. That's pretty typical of contracts, too. I have to be in the right mood & the right frame of mind to sit down & really read over them word for word. Until I'm ready for them, it tends to all be just gobbledygook. I recognize my name & the tentative book titles, & that's about it. :-p

But this is exciting. It's good to have the actual paperwork in front of me & know that I haven't been imagining things up to this point. Now I just have to get the books written so St. Martin's doesn't think they make a huge, colossal mistake in acquiring me to begin with. Eeek.