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(Or to bail on the project you're supposed to be writing in order to feed the title of your upcoming book into google.)
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/bdf/
This is so surreal. Six months ago I was getting rejected with comments like "overwritten and unpublishable" and "not ready for publication" and "interesting but uncommercial" and "we just weren't enthusiastic enough about the writing," and now I'm a "leading client" of a major agent.
I really don't know what to say. Except that I didn't write back to any of those rejectors to say, "You're mean, I hate you, and I could kick your ass." Though I do confess that I really hoped that they all read the edition of Publisher's Marketplace which listed the sale of my book and cursed their stupidity.
At some point I will get an actual website (anyone here design websites?) and put some goodies for unpublished or mostly unpublished writers on it. I've heard that we often write books because we want to read them, only they don't exist yet. Before I managed to hook up with the brilliant Brian, there were two things I really wanted to read: an actual query letter that had successfully hooked an agent or publisher, and accounts of authors who faced insulting rejections (with actual quotes) for ages before selling their book. When I get a website, those are going on there (without attributions, of course), to encourage people during what can be an incredibly discouraging process.
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/bdf/
This is so surreal. Six months ago I was getting rejected with comments like "overwritten and unpublishable" and "not ready for publication" and "interesting but uncommercial" and "we just weren't enthusiastic enough about the writing," and now I'm a "leading client" of a major agent.
I really don't know what to say. Except that I didn't write back to any of those rejectors to say, "You're mean, I hate you, and I could kick your ass." Though I do confess that I really hoped that they all read the edition of Publisher's Marketplace which listed the sale of my book and cursed their stupidity.
At some point I will get an actual website (anyone here design websites?) and put some goodies for unpublished or mostly unpublished writers on it. I've heard that we often write books because we want to read them, only they don't exist yet. Before I managed to hook up with the brilliant Brian, there were two things I really wanted to read: an actual query letter that had successfully hooked an agent or publisher, and accounts of authors who faced insulting rejections (with actual quotes) for ages before selling their book. When I get a website, those are going on there (without attributions, of course), to encourage people during what can be an incredibly discouraging process.