All I can manage today is a list.
Agents responding to the most recent round of submission: three
Days since most recent round: one
Agents requesting a full: one
Agents requesting a partial: two
Agents saying “no thanks” last month: ten
This month: none
Average number of times PER DAY I’ve lost the contents of my stomach, last week: six
This week: [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘novel’
4 August 2009
Bullet points
18 July 2009
It takes 100 auditions…
In my theater and film days, we talked about how you need 100 auditions to get one job. And the role isn’t the point: auditions are your chance to act and you should get joy from those opportunities because heaven knows that the right place right time thing isn’t in your control. The audition is [...]
1 July 2009
Found around the Web today
I think Wednesday might become “shamelessly linking” day because it’s also Movie Day, during which my kid gets an hour of crap from a DVD and I rearrange furniture or finally put away winter clothes or whatever (whatever meaning both of those things, at least today).
Here’s a lame attempt at mocking the literati, offering a [...]
16 June 2009
Tough call
For future reference, if you’re out of town and get a request to send a partial submission to the agent you really, really, really hoped would read your debut novel, it will cost you $30 to print it at Office Depot and $176 to print it at FedExKinkosFedOfficeFedWhatever.
Tough call. But I think since David Foster [...]
31 May 2009
Writhing on the floor
It’s a lot easier to send out a manuscript to an agent you don’t know than to people you admire.
So I”m curled up in the fetal position in a cafe, writing breathless emails to people I would never, in a million years, have read my book, asking them to uncap a red pen and let [...]
23 May 2009
You’re goddamned right it is.
8:47pm Saturday May 23, 2009. My novel is finished.
I brought it, Universe.
Now whatchya got?
