Guys, I did it! No, I didn’t get an agent, but I did finally finish my revised manuscript and on 1st June I emailed it back to Potentially Interested Agent (PIA). Huzzah, you may say (and I really wish you do, keep the word alive my friends. Our double-z words are scarce enough). On theContinue reading “When The End is not The End…”
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Crunch time
A friend’s kid once came to our home for a birthday party, saw the impromptu Digger World that had sprung up around our digging of a natural swimming pond, and apparently remarked to his mum (about me) “She does everything at once”. I’m starting to feel like he had a point. So baby’s due thisContinue reading “Crunch time”
When you overcomplicate things and get your just deserts.
So in my genius, I have created several versions of my novel, one (the original one) for those open to YA as well as adult, and one for those who are adult only, where my protagonist is 18 instead of 16, because one agent called it too YA leaning for them and I thought maybeContinue reading “When you overcomplicate things and get your just deserts.”
The submissions roller coaster
Gaaaaahhhhh. Ok, just had to get that off my chest. Let’s all move on. I can’t move on! I know sending stuff off to agents and hearing back from them is all just a Thing, and not on the scale of Life Events the way Child #3 nearly drowning is, for example (swimming out ofContinue reading “The submissions roller coaster”
Beyond submitting
So. Authorial life after submitting…theoretically I was planning to submit to 5-6 agents, then as the blogs advised move on and go and immerse myself in a new project (I figured having a baby would do it) to avoid nail biting and constant email checking. The reality: well I haven’t had the baby yet, notContinue reading “Beyond submitting”
Submitting!
Oh my goodness, well hasn’t it been a while since my last post 👀 well here’s why: I have finally, finally started submitting my actual book to actual agents. On the one hand, massive yay! On the other, it was the first time I actually started to hate any part of the writing process. IContinue reading “Submitting!”
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