Agent #3 was a junior agent, but she was also a friend, so I knew she had the people skills to make a professional impression on the editors in NY, and her editorial eye for a great story was impeccable. She negotiated my new contract (two more books in my series, bringing my total up [...]
Okay, after getting the kissoff from Agent #1 (on my birthday), I decided my first book was DOA (yes, despite the fact that I had gotten an actual, encouraging rejection from a real live editor, I did). I finished my second book. I belonged to a writer’s group, to which an agent came to speak. [...]
AGENT #1 – I got my very first agent the old-fashioned way. I went to the library, got out the current Writer’s Market and looked through the listing, laboriously copying addresses and requirements into a notebook so I could go home and use my speedy Commodore 64 to write my letters and then my sturdy [...]
Well, now that the travel is done, and I’m caught up with everything that had to be done, I’m starting to seriously look for a new agent. [OLD NEWS: My agent closed her agency and stopped agenting a few weeks ago. I didn't blog about it, because I was busy dealing with getting three non-fiction [...]
I forget how attached at the hip/fingertips/eyes I am to the internet…until I don’t have it anymore. The hotel Wi-Fi in Ohio was so horrible that I wanted to cry because I couldn’t do anything in the 30 second very sllloooooowww bits and bytes it allowed. Compared to my mother-in-law’s house, though, the hotel was [...]
I’ve been writing an article on great titles, and consequently have been looking at a lot of ….ummm….great titles. Time Traveler’s Wife anyone? Coming up with the perfect title isn’t easy, which is why most books have enticingly designed covers, prominently displayed big author’s name (tell me, really, wouldn’t you buy a cookbook that had [...]
