Getting the Willies - Contract Signing Time!

I'm hyperventilating, but it's a good thing! Little decisions, taking on little challenges, can leave you standing atop a hill you never knew you had climbed. Writers, beware!

Last year I spotted an invitation to members of the Sisters In Crime NY/TriState Chapter in my overloaded email account. The email proposed an anthology - short mysteries (7,000 words or ) less based in the NY area. I worked out a story called "Casino Gamble." It featured my two teachers and a murder at an upstate NY casino run by Natives. It's full of my "cultures-in-confict" theme.

Well, Casino got accepted, with revisions, and now the SinC NY group has a publisher, and NOW I have to sign a contract, fill out a tax form, and - worse yet, come up with a photo for my newly arriving website (based in the publisher's website)!!! It's starting to sound like we're going to be PAID! Funny thing, I never thought about getting PAID for this - only saw it as a good thing to tack onto my merits list in a query letter.

Holy Cow! So glad I'm doing this as part of a group instead of negotiating the waters alone.

Fellow writers, BEWARE! This is how it goes - one moment reconsidering my life of crime (writing) and the next discovering I'm about to be a published mystery writer (albeit in a short form)!

I'll keep you posted!

Whew! Time to catch my breath and eat some chocolate!

Write On!
Nan