Coldfeet, thanks. I'll keep you in mind. I have a couple other novels that need to be finished. I'm a little concerned because my next three novels are part of a series, and I'm going to be working on the fourth one this November during Nanowrimo. If the first book of the series tanks as badly as this current novel, the next three are basically worthless. But I like the stories and the characters, and I'm going to try to ignore the fact that I don't seem to be a very good writer and work on finishing them.
Still no response from those last five agents, and no response from the last five day jobs I applied for. The economic news keeps getting worse, and now my mortgage company is calling me. I've been putting off calling them back, because I want to tell them that I have a job. I'm afraid that if they find out I don't have a steady income they'll take my house away from me, even though I've been making my mortgage payments on time for the past nine months. You'd think that would count for something, but anymore I just don't know.