Wow...it's been almost a month since I went to the conference and there's so much to tell! The biggest news is that as a result of the conference, I got 2 literary agents to request my manuscript (one wants the full MS, the other wants the first three chapters and a proposal), and 3 publishers have expressed interest at least on some level. Since then, I've been hacking away at my story and trying to get it cut down from 167,000 words (which is waaay too long) to 120,000 at the most. So far, I've eliminated about 27,000 words (almost 100 pages) from the story. Don't worry, it was all fluff, mostly from the beginning. My first 6 chapters are almost completely different now (chapter 4 is pretty much the same, though) but in a very good way!
The long and short of it is that I have a lot left to do and not much time to do it. I'll try to post some more as time goes on, but right now I have to run to work.
-Ben
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