Resolution for 2014

It's only January, which means I'm doing well on my 2014 resolution for writing. That's the thing about January. No stamina required (yet).

The big commitment: To do something each month in 2014 to market the SPOTD series.

January:
I contacted my dream agency with a request for representation. They asked for an upload of the text, which meant selecting a book from the series to send. My favorite book is #2, probably because it has the most classic superpowers (flying, invisibility, strength) and because Chase's inner journey ramps up as the veil of youthful self-centeredness starts to fall from his eyes. The story becomes less about a kid playing with superpowers and more about the superpowers playing with him.

But I think #3 is the strongest of the three books, so that's the one I sent. I loved putting together the puzzle of the whole series, and in the third volume, everything that happened in #1 and #2 has extra purpose and weight. Plot points and details that may have seemed extraneous earlier are suddenly indispensable. And I'm especially proud of both my temporal manipulations: the events foretold in precognitive flashes and the events affected by time travel to the past. Trust me, a lot of thought went into avoiding temporal paradoxes. I'm proud of the results.

I have one confession regarding the submission. Before I sent it, I clicked the "exclusive" button -- less to show my commitment to this particular agency (although, as I said, it is my dream agency) and more to let myself off the hook for further agency contacts in January.

Resolution =  check