When I got home from my vacation, I had an email from Agent #6. She said my story is unique and that she enjoyed reading my sample pages. Wahoo!
And then she said, no thanks.
Actually, she said what agents always say when they are rejecting you, which is that after careful consideration they have realized they [...]
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
Delusions of Glamour
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2009
When I got the contract to write my book two years ago, my husband teased me. “It’s like you’re in the NBA,” he said. “Every writer wants to be published, just like every basketball player dreams of being in the NBA. And you’re in.”
It was true. By my own novice writer’s standard, I had arrived: [...]
I’ve actually read—and liked—half a dozen books by this agent’s clients. I mentioned a couple (okay, four) of them in the query and, yes, I said (briefly) why my book was similar to each. Hm. Maybe that was overkill.
At any rate, it’s been two months since I sent this query. No response. The agency’s website [...]