Head Hopping
I can’t help it, the term gives me a mental image of headhunters every time.
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The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Month 3
Three months into this journey. By this time I get to look back on my shiny new starting to query self, point, and laugh. I wasn’t so blindly optimistic that I thought my first round of queries would result in a book deal. The research and all the articles I found made it pretty clear that only in a world that includes unicorns does that happen. The answers I’ve gotten have been about what I expected for an unknown, unpublished…
Querying: We Hates It!
Slogging through the Query trenches. In which there is a lot of angst and some hot chocolate.
The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Part the Second
Lets review the scoreboard so far! Established Medium Size Agency: #pass, with a very polite form letter. Much appreciated. Established Medium Size Agency: No reply, which means #pass New Small Agency: Zero reply and it’s past their stated 4 week response time. #pass Established Medium Size: Still no reply. Their stated reply window is 12 weeks and it’s been about 10, so I figure #pass. Small Independent Romance Only Agency: #pass with the kindest personal letter full of pointers for me, which…
A Day’s Writing
“Full time writer” sounds so much more glamorous than “going crazy trying to find a few minutes to write in between kid wrangling”.
The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; The Beginning
Following experienced advice about querying intelligently…..is so not what I did.