Welcome to Victoria Pinder’s Site. I’m so happy you stopped in to check me out. If you came because of Mything You by Greta Buckle, that’s me. So no worries.
Woot, woot, I can now call myself an author soon. This is the reason for the site. How did this happen? Well I wrote a manuscript. Then a few years ago I walked into a RWA conference up in Orlando after completing that first manuscript. I thought, it sounded like a place to figure out what to do next. Where else does one learn this business? First person I met at the bar was Vicki Lewis Thomas, on my first walk into anything writing. She was awesome, though not a real Vicki. (I was sad about that.) She told me that many people want to write manuscripts, but most never can do even that. She made me feel good because I also learned fast that manuscript must be horrible. It took about two minutes of agents and editors talking about what they look for. My book wasn’t any of that. Drat.
But I also learned so much more. How to write correctly. And besides making me laugh out loud many times, Vicki Lewis Thomas inspired me to forged ahead. So thank you for being nice to a woman at the bar.
Now I’m not good at no. I thought I fixed that terrible manuscript. And I’m super stubborn. The Aquarius in me is a rule breaker. It’s hard to follow and do what I’m told. It’s not in my nature. And there is always the exception to every rule or there is another way. After Nationals, I joined a local chapter. My Florida group is traditionally published. I love being in a group, though self publishing wasn’t what the group stood for. I needed to learn, and in putting out Mything You, it became for a me a positive. I have well over a hundred rejections piled up on that manuscript that I tried to fix. I even have another 90K sequel to that book done too. Sigh. Mything you became my way to do something else instead of sitting, and I learned so much.
Everyday I learn something.
Now it’s 2013, I sold two manuscripts to two different publishers. Two Weeks in Miami comes out from Corvallis Press. The Zoastra Affair will come out from Soul Mate Publishing, and I have to say this editor seems super cool to me. I like Soul Mate. Plus from looking around, I have quite a few other stories in the works or to tell.
If you didn’t come to talk books, I’m open in my blog to talk about whatever anyone wants within reason. I am Irish after all, so the whole keep opinions to oneself motto does once in a while surface.
Look around. I do love making youtube videos. I’m on that way more than any other site, watching videos.
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Never take yourself too seriously. For my day job they make us dance. Wedding Anthem was my idea in 2013 though chose to go on a cruise instead of practice. We dance every year and will try to find the classic 2011 and 2012 editions of the Evolution of Dance and A night to Remember. Did I mention I’m a horrible dancer? You can clearly tell. in these.
