Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, contests, editing, jubilation, novel, publishing, The Edge of Memory on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many big kudos to both Authoress on the Miss Snark’s First Victim blog, and to the amazing Secret Agent Holly Root at the Waxman Agency.
This was a rocking contest in so many ways. Ms. Root invested a lot of time to give thoughtful feedback on each entry to the Are You Hooked? contest. [...]
Posted in What I've Learned, musings, novel, tagged agents, music, musings, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, What I've Learned on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, that title is a bit misleading… I’m new to writing and publishing and don’t know “everything I need to know” by a long stretch.
The inspiration for this blog post came when a quote from Willy Wonka popped into my head and seemed to fit my quest for publication.
“There’s a hundred billion people in this [...]
Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, conferences, jubilation, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, The Edge of Memory on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kristin Nelson rocks. Seriously.
I attended her workshop on Query Pitch Blurbs at the Chicago-North RWA Spring Fling. Using her suggestions, I crafted a query letter and sent out an equery on Monday night.
Tuesday afternoon, I got a request for a partial.
She has been blogging on the same topic. Well [...]
Posted in novel, tagged agents, conferences, novel, pitching, publishing, The Edge of Memory on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Warning! The following post is slightly spoilerific. So you’ll have to click “continue” to read it.
In case you read about my first agent meeting and wondered what my 60-second pitch was…
Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, conferences, genres, jubilation, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, The Edge of Memory, wordcounts on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, I’m back to my regularly scheduled doctorhood today.
I got in late last night and I’m working a 24+ hour shift today. So I didn’t have a chance to finish blogging about the conference.
Wow. What a crazy, wonderful experience that was!
Saturday, I drove in early for more workshops. I had a great session [...]
Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, conferences, novel, pitching, publishing, The Edge of Memory on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, here I sit on break from my very first writing conference. A surreal experience to say the least.
After working up a vigorous lather of panic and caffeine this morning, I arrived at the Spring Fling conference muttering my 60-second pitch to myself and trying not to puke.
Much ado about nothing, like most panic. [...]
Posted in novel, tagged agents, conferences, genres, hooks, novel, publishing, writing on April 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my continued quest to figure out how to get published, I’ve been researching writing conferences. The Chicago Spring Fling conference I’m attending at the end of this month is sneaking up on me faster than I’d expected.
In addition to cooking up a verbal pitch, I’ve read that I also need to prepare business [...]
Posted in novel, tagged agents, genres, high school, marketing, publishing, queries, titles on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, I am dangerously close to trying to query. I’ve picked out 5 agents to start with. I’ve researched them and composed letters for each one.
But I still struggle with what to call my book. I honestly think it could be marketed in a number of different ways, and I’m not sure [...]
Posted in novel, tagged queries, editing, critique circle, test readers, publishing, rewriting, epilogue, symbolism, gratitude on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I am so close to finishing I can taste it! I just finished editing Chapter 33, which was the major scene I needed to add. I’ve got to go back and review it later to see how it fits after a little distance, but I think it worked out well.
Seven chapters left on [...]
Posted in novel, tagged family, pen names, publishing, work on December 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot in the last few days about pen names.
I had planned that if my book were to be published, it would be under my professional name. I am starting to doubt that decision.
Given the subject matter of my novel, it is conceivable that I may generate some angry responses. [...]
Posted in novel, tagged agents, genres, publishing on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I spent a large chunk of today looking up information on literary agents. I am starting to really itch to work on the editing, and I know I am still too close to the material to edit well yet, so I am channeling my energy into researching the publishing process instead.
It is a crazy [...]
