Open the door for your Mystery Date!~
Oct. 23rd, 2005 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaI think it IS the new postman who's giving us a trial, because today I went to the mailbox and found one of those little slips that says your package was too big to fit into the box. Said it was a large envelope and I can pick it up at the post office until Nov. 1, when it goes back. Our old postal service person and the one before that used to bring stuff up to the front porch and lay it next to the doormat. This one didn't. The others would ring the bell. This one doesn't. So I figure that's the problem--a new guy on the job who's doing it his way.
What could this envelope be? I imagine it's a manuscript coming back. It *could* be the marked-up manuscript from one of the editor critiques I bought, but it's still a little early, and I thought I'd get that back as e-mail. It could also be the full manuscript that I sent to another agent, one who has not contacted me to say anything by e-mail (unlike one of the others, who has.) Or (and I wouldn't want it to be this one) it could be a return from the mystery novel contest. However, I didn't send a SASE with that, and didn't expect it to be returned; they usually just e-mail you . . . and I really hoped that one could make it to the editor.
It could, on the other hand, be a magazine I ordered (a back issue). Or it could be something from someone who wants me to read and comment. No way to know for sure until Monday. *sigh*
The name that the slip claims it is "from" doesn't match any of the names I have on file for the agents or the contest judge, so maybe it's something from a writer--someone I told to feel free to send me some of their work and I'd make a few comments. There are a few people I've said that to over the year(s). I suppose one of them could have decided to send without e-mailing me.
It's all so mysterious. But I'm too exhausted from housecleaning, shopping, cooking, decorating, and babying hubby and Mama (who both have some mild form of intestinal/stomach upset, probably a virus) all day to worry about it much.
To bed early (ha! That means before 1 AM) to watch the original "Parent Trap" on cable.
What could this envelope be? I imagine it's a manuscript coming back. It *could* be the marked-up manuscript from one of the editor critiques I bought, but it's still a little early, and I thought I'd get that back as e-mail. It could also be the full manuscript that I sent to another agent, one who has not contacted me to say anything by e-mail (unlike one of the others, who has.) Or (and I wouldn't want it to be this one) it could be a return from the mystery novel contest. However, I didn't send a SASE with that, and didn't expect it to be returned; they usually just e-mail you . . . and I really hoped that one could make it to the editor.
It could, on the other hand, be a magazine I ordered (a back issue). Or it could be something from someone who wants me to read and comment. No way to know for sure until Monday. *sigh*
The name that the slip claims it is "from" doesn't match any of the names I have on file for the agents or the contest judge, so maybe it's something from a writer--someone I told to feel free to send me some of their work and I'd make a few comments. There are a few people I've said that to over the year(s). I suppose one of them could have decided to send without e-mailing me.
It's all so mysterious. But I'm too exhausted from housecleaning, shopping, cooking, decorating, and babying hubby and Mama (who both have some mild form of intestinal/stomach upset, probably a virus) all day to worry about it much.
To bed early (ha! That means before 1 AM) to watch the original "Parent Trap" on cable.
