Luck Is In the Cards

The past few weeks has been a bit hectic at James Literary Services. I have been awarded more editing contracts and my authors are starting to get published.

I am used to working on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in a very hectic schedule to meet my weekly rent on Friday morning. But lately, I've received a continuous stream of contracts. The money doesn't seem to be increasing that much, but the smaller paying contracts are coming in. I've also been hired as an affiliate/developmental editor for one publisher and as a short story editor for another. So the editing part of the business (the "now" money) is going well.

On the literary agency side (the "later" money), things have had some ups and downs. I had an author leave the fold because she wanted to be published NOW instead of a year from now, as the publishing world goes. But I've just signed a couple who have written a great Christian fiction piece and three of my authors have been published.

C. B. Carter has signed a contract with Brighton Publishing to publish his book Seated Beside the Wolf, which is sure to be a best seller if I can find some way to promote the hell out of him and the book! C. B. has also had a story accepted for publication in an adult paranormal fantasy anthology being published by Silver Knight Publishing.

Serena Pettus has had a story accepted for the same anthology. And Daniel Carter just found out tonight (actually, as of this writing, not sure he knows yet heeheeh) that his story was accepted for their young adult anthology. A relationship is forming with Silver Knight Publishing, it seems, which makes me very happy.

Onward and upward!!!!