I absolutely love these GLA “Dear Lucky Agent” contests ... this one's about my genre and very timely! Woo-hoo! Very exciting!
Also exciting: The judge is Andrea Morrison of Writers House.
WRITERS. HOUSE.
So, I'll be throwing my hat in the ring, and sharing the URL for others as well:
http://tinyurl.com/z7e9rsc
Wish me luck! :)
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Ooh ... a YA contest
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
No news isn't bad news, right?
Well, the query front has been super quiet.
I currently have 14 queries out. I just sent seven out this past weekend just because I wasn't hearing back from anyone. :) I'm sure many of my older queries are to agents who have a "no response = no" policy, which is frustrating. So frustrating, in fact, that when one of my newest queries resulted in a form rejection, I immediately thanked the agent for taking time to let me know.
I was dismayed when an agent recently announced on Twitter that she's switching to responding only when she's interested because of NEGATIVE REPLIES!
Really, fellow hopeful authors? Ugh. That is so annoying to me. Though, it feels like people in general are just getting more angry and negative. But that's for another day.
It just floors me, the arrogance of some writers looking to get published. Agents post about writers saying "Here's my manuscript. It does NOT need to be changed." or responding to rejections with snarky things like, "You'll be sorry" or "Don't need the money, huh?"
(I won't even get into the writer who recently blew up Twitter with his horribly nasty account of a pitch session.)
It reminds me of this quote that I LOVE:
I cannot tell you how many times the following has been me:
I can be in love with my words and then completely loath everything I've ever written in the same night! :)
But, I love it. I'm not giving up.
As I'm querying, a new idea has started bouncing around. I have an old WF manuscript that I'm thinking about reworking into a YA.
You know the drill: Dialogue that flies into the brain while washing dishes. An entire scene plays out during a shower. Random ideas ping in and out during the work day. Thank goodness for voice memos on my phone!
I'm both looking forward to a new ms and dreading it. It's a lot of work. It's countless hours and outlines and first drafts and stakes and editing and killing your darlings. But I am looking forward to meeting these new characters.
In the meantime ... I'll continue to humbly submit queries and chapters and synopses, and tentatively - but hopefully - peek at my inbox.
I currently have 14 queries out. I just sent seven out this past weekend just because I wasn't hearing back from anyone. :) I'm sure many of my older queries are to agents who have a "no response = no" policy, which is frustrating. So frustrating, in fact, that when one of my newest queries resulted in a form rejection, I immediately thanked the agent for taking time to let me know.
I was dismayed when an agent recently announced on Twitter that she's switching to responding only when she's interested because of NEGATIVE REPLIES!
Really, fellow hopeful authors? Ugh. That is so annoying to me. Though, it feels like people in general are just getting more angry and negative. But that's for another day.
It just floors me, the arrogance of some writers looking to get published. Agents post about writers saying "Here's my manuscript. It does NOT need to be changed." or responding to rejections with snarky things like, "You'll be sorry" or "Don't need the money, huh?"
(I won't even get into the writer who recently blew up Twitter with his horribly nasty account of a pitch session.)
It reminds me of this quote that I LOVE:
I cannot tell you how many times the following has been me:
I can be in love with my words and then completely loath everything I've ever written in the same night! :)
But, I love it. I'm not giving up.
As I'm querying, a new idea has started bouncing around. I have an old WF manuscript that I'm thinking about reworking into a YA.
You know the drill: Dialogue that flies into the brain while washing dishes. An entire scene plays out during a shower. Random ideas ping in and out during the work day. Thank goodness for voice memos on my phone!
I'm both looking forward to a new ms and dreading it. It's a lot of work. It's countless hours and outlines and first drafts and stakes and editing and killing your darlings. But I am looking forward to meeting these new characters.
In the meantime ... I'll continue to humbly submit queries and chapters and synopses, and tentatively - but hopefully - peek at my inbox.
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literary agents,
queries,
rejection,
self-doubt
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