Last month in my monthly round-up, I exulted over having just sent in the latest rewrite to my agent. And so it is fitting that a month later, I’ll give you the good news—she and her readers loved it, we’ll do a polish and it is on the submit list for September. (Because, as I […]
One of my dearest friends read last week’s post with the subject line, a love letter about winning, and wrote me that she thought it said whining. To which I responded, what an excellent idea for a newsletter. And so here we go. In the spirit of the Olympics, I am a championship whiner. I can whine about anything, and I […]
The best way I can answer the question of the title is to tell you two stories, the stories of my two attempts to get a literary agent. Attempt to get an agent #1 The first story happened back around 2011-2012. I was seeking representation for my novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior. Over the course […]
I spent last weekend going through my novel, The Bonne Chance Bakery. My agent is about to submit it to some editors again and she suggested I might want to read through it. I hadn’t looked at it since last August, when I rewrote it. So I said, yeah, I’d take a glance. Geezus. I’m really […]
So, last Friday, March 20 was Macaron Day worldwide. What is Macaron Day? It was started by the venerable Parisian baker Pierre Herme (his name has an accent mark, but I can never figure out how to do those) in 2006, and the way it works is simple: you drop into a bakery, donate money to […]
For starters, in case you missed the news, I am now officially represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Lit. Woot woot! Best news ever. It happened fast. She was the only agent I sent the query to, and it was one week from sending her the query to the phone call offering representation. A freaking miracle. […]
NEWS FLASH! Okay, when I started writing this I knew that good things were afoot–but now I can make the announcement: Erin Niumata of Folio Lit has agreed to represent me! She will be repping my novel, The Bonne Chance Bakery, and future works as well. I will write about the process (which has happened […]
So, there's this thing called the internet. And we use it for nearly all our research into anything these days. This is especially true for research on topics that have to be current, such as, well, agent and editor listings. When you have a story or novel to submit, you hit the interwebs to find […]
So, this blog has been around for awhile, like seven years, and because of that I've amassed a lot of posts (over a thousand of them) which is something the Google loves and thus I get some traffic through here. Because I get traffic, I also get people pitching ideas to me for the blog. […]
I've promised to be forthcoming about every aspect of the process of getting my book published, so here goes another post on it. Last week I off-handedly mentioned that I was looking for an agent. Later, was speaking with my buddy Square-Peg Karen (keep an eye out for a cool collaboration we're working on) and […]
