47 rejections
Category : agent search, query distress, writing | Posted : Apr 24th, 2008
That’s 47 rejections, including the 19 people who never responded.
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can i say…mortifying?
Category : writing | Posted : Mar 17th, 2008
I was just reading through the first 75 pages of SP before sending it to a prospective agent and was horrified to find typos! Typos! Only a few…but I regularly lecture people when I find typos in their work. I am one of the most reliable proofreaders at my workplace. I am so ashamed. Especially because I have grammar and spell-checked […]
a tough call
Category : agent search, writing | Posted : Mar 13th, 2008
Every now and then during the publishing process an agent or editor will ask you to make changes to your existing MS before they will represent it. It actually happened with my first agent and we spent months revising and rewriting LLThat prior to even signing our contract together. Later in our relationship, when she was […]
Gangland memoir is fabricated: publisher
Tue Mar 4, 2008 3:37pm EST
By Emily Chasan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir about a mixed-raced girl growing up in a gang-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles, is a fabrication and the 19,000 distributed copies of the book will be recalled, its publisher said on Tuesday.
Author Margaret […]
tom tom
Category : agent search, celebrity babble, writing | Posted : Mar 1st, 2008
It’s weird not being in the middle of a writing project. It actually makes me uncomfortable not to be working on something, but lately I just don’t feel like it. I’m not sure what I want to devote my creativity to now that I’m done with SP and pages of it are flying around the USA […]
Talking about language and behavior
Category : query distress, writing | Posted : Jan 4th, 2008
One thing my readers always note when they’re critiquing my books is that something that might turn an agent/editor off is my heavy use of questionable language in my every story–you know, words like fuck, shit, cock, piss, bitch, etc. But my characters are nearly never delicate flowers and most of them have mouths to […]
When I’m not writing
Category : writing | Posted : Dec 28th, 2007
What is it, exactly, that I’m supposed to be doing? I get bored. I’m not sure what to do with all that time. I feel that I should immediately start crafting another novel–but what should this one be about? I had such a fabulous time writing from the perspective of my male characters in SP […]
Getting back to my roots
Category : writing | Posted : Jul 25th, 2007
Are you still out there?
If so, thanks for waiting patiently. I checked in the other day and realized I haven’t posted in four months!
Anyway, I pretty much abandoned the blog because I’d grown bored and frustrated with writing about writing when I wasn’t even satisfied with writing itself, actually. Not to mention that I felt […]
OTL
Category : uncategorized, writing | Posted : Aug 13th, 2006
One year after it was supposed to be published, Only the Lucky is finished.
Now that’s what I call progress.
No Book 2…yet
Category : uncategorized, writing | Posted : Jul 25th, 2006
Maybe I won’t move the blog. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just blog in both locations. Wow, wouldn’t that be interesting? A dual dose of my thinly-veiled complaints about the genre that barfed me up and left me for dead, even more moaning about my complete psychological meltdown as a writer and double the tales […]