I just received my umpteenth rejection letter from a publisher (Carina Press/Harlequin) for my latest work "Igor". It was disheartening because I thought the publisher was more likely to consider this piece than other publishers I have sent work to in the past; you know tailor your submissions to publishers more likely to like that genre, right?

It's been a depressing summer, looking for a job, living in smoke and forest fires and depending too much on external influences affecting my life. But the good part is that I have been writing again, slowly. I started a story, working title "dragons" about reclamation. Current earth is polluted, too warm and every environment/biome crashing. Aliens come in to save us all, but at a price - we become the subservient species and they get all the good resources and ship off planet. my story starts 200 years later after human civilization has mostly collapsed, we are in Monterey CA and our heroine (12 year old Yani) discovers a dragon's egg (one of the phenotypes of the alien reclamation experts the "Noahs").
I thought of it originally as YA, but as I made it too cutsey and the girl talked like an 7 year old, I have changed it abit. Anyway I have joined a writers group here in Missoula and they are really helpful, not so much in specific as in general (encouragement, character reactions, etc). So I am writing again!