Merlin recap round up

As promised, I'm posting a list with links to all of my Merlin blog posts over on More TV, Please! I hope you enjoy them if you take a look.

Merlin 1.01 "The Dragon's Call"

Merlin 1.02 "Valiant"

Merlin 1.03 "The Mark of Nimueh"

Merlin 1.04 "The Poisoned Chalice"

Merlin 1.05 "Lancelot"

Merlin 1.06 "A Remedy to Cure All Ills"

Merlin 1.07 "The Gates of Avalon"

Merlin 1.08 "The Beginning of the End"

Merlin 1.09 "Excalibur"

Merlin 1.10 "The Moment of Truth"

Merlin 1.11 "The Labyrinth of Gedref"

Merlin 1.12 "To Kill the King"

Merlin 1.13 "Le Morte D'Arthur"

I will be back over on MTVP once ABC decides to releaes an air date for their new medical drama starring Dana Delany and Jeri Ryan, Body of Proof.

Novel round-up

So I didn't exactly get that email from my agent. We chatted on the phone a bit. We haven't had any new rejections on EUTERPE since Dial. We've just gone out to Egmont USA and will be going to Candlewick in August and likely Disney/Hyperion in September. So in all, I think we're still out with like 5 or 6 publishers. Summer is a slow time, too. Lots of people go on vacation and the houses have summer hours (often times not open or very limited hours on Fridays). We just have to keep plugging along.

I've been making some little-ish edits to PHARAOH over the last week (as my mom reads, she sends me stuff). The biggest change so far has been the MC's name. He is now Jahi, a far more traditional Egyptian name. I'll be introducing some interesting religous undertones to the manuscript in revisions as well. It's going to actually add to the subplot of Jahi and Nan's relationship.

As for MONTICELLO, I've just gutted it. Lost over half of the word count but it's what was required. I've saved the material in case there is some parts that I can keep. I'm sure there may be a few choice bits of dialog that can be reused. I'm aiming for 13,000 words by the 31st which I'm fairly confident I can accomplish.

I've blogged the first five episodes of Merlin and through episode 4 has been posted over on More TV, Please. I swear once they're all up I'll throw up a post over here with a list of each recap. For now, I have to go do some beta-ing.

A brief update on state of affairs

Hey everyone. This is going to be a short post this week. I wanted to report that PHARAOH'S LINK is now being shipped off to readers before I do another edit and send it to my agent. Hopefully everything I've learned since last September (when I signed with my agent) will mean less revising time before submitting to publishers. I'm expecting a reply to an email from my agent in the next few days so I will probably swing by and give an update on that early next week.

I've now also done three guest blogs on More TV Please for the Summer TV Rewind series. I'll wait to post with a link to the individual entries until most of them are up. However if you go over to More TV Please, you can easily search through the July posts to find the first 2 entries.

I'm really enjoying this rewind. I hadn't watched Merlin series 1 since last summer (even before it aired on NBC). It is reminding me why I really like the show and getting me stoked for series 3 in September. And I'm eagerly waiting for series 2 to be released to region 1 DVD.