My time-travel steampunk novel, Entangled, picked up by Black Opal Books, has passed its first editing phase.

I’ve just signed a contract for a science fiction novella, Getting Them Up, with Whiskey Creek/Torrid Press:

This is an abrupt coming-of-age for a young man, a skinny science geek who’s faced head-on with the threat of worldwide genetic disaster.

How unfortunate that little slip-up. He’s let mutant sea creatures loose in Earth’s oceans. One bit him and now he’s mutated into the body of an Adonis, a prisoner on a hospital ship, and forced to “cure” its civilian population. Worse, he’s surrounded by awesome—tall and nubile—reptilian women and all they want to do is suck his toes; he’d been hoping for much more.

One year ago, about a year since I decided to work full-time on my writing, I was lucky enough to be invited into a critique group where my critique partners were e-published.

In the last month, I was appointed as PRO Liaison of my local chapter of Romance Writers of America and, after winning a Savvy Authors pitch contest, offered a contract on my fourth novel, Entangled.

If there is any advice a newbie like me can give, it’s focus on the front end of promotion, not the back end (on sending out queries, not the rejections).

I must take my hat off to the editors and agents who’ve rejected my work. I have never seen so many encouraging rejections. Whatever the reason, keep those encouragements coming, they mean a lot to me, rejection or not.

Susan Burns

Hello,

My name is Susan Burns and I write romances.

See blurbs on my works in progress and on Entangled (just picked up by Black Opal Books) at http://www.legendsofthegoldens.wordpress.com.

S