This is my first entry. I should've been in bed long since, but for some time now I've been toying with the idea of creating a journal for the sole purpose of talking about my writing. Tonight I decided to go ahead and do that. I have a number of reasons for it, one of which is petty (I use the handle "Carfiniel" all over the Internet, and recently had the shock of discovering it taken on another site, and want to make sure I get that on LJ.); most of my other reasons are more practical--for one thing, my personal journal has too many friends for me to keep up with, anyway; for another, my personal journal is friends-only due to the nature of my employment and the fact that I write fanfiction.

I have finished polishing my modern/urban fantasy novel For the Grace Go I, which was written a year and a half ago. I am in the final stages of polishing the synopsis, and have chosen a "First Pick" publishing house to which I shall submit it. I have a sequel, Come Ye Back, completed in first draft form. This is the year I get serious about submitting my work and getting it published.

I also need to return my attention to my short stories, because I have quite a number of stories I should be marketing. I have received two very nice and encouraging rejections from the editor of Black Gate, and my ultimate goal is to have a story accepted there. Am I shooting high for an unpublished author? Probably. Do I care? Nope. Aim at the moon and if you miss you may hit a star. (Or is it the other way around?)

Anyway, don't expect a high volume of posts here (if you're bothering to read at all). This is going to be, at first, a journal used largely for reading purposes. Then again, feel free to share in my defeats and victories here, because I'll be posting about them.

God bless!
Carfiniel