Multiple submissions, OCD and peanut butter

February 17, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

If you’ve checked the website of a literary agent or publishing house lately, you may have noticed that most of them make a point to warn prospective authors to expect an exceedingly lengthy response time. They never say exactly how long, but if you have recently sent off your manuscript, be prepared for endless hours […]

The Universe Will deliver…more than pizza and Chinese food

January 31, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

Everything that is coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you are holding in your head…(The Secret, page 4)” If you haven’t already seen it, The Secret is a documentary film about the power of positive thinking in which most of the interviewees […]

How to get a literary agent…and confronting the green-slime monster under my bed

January 19, 2011.Reading time 6 minutes.

Save Changes? Yup, don’t mind if do. And so it was with a deep sigh of relief that I did my last spell check and finally concluded that my manuscript was ready to Go Out in the World–leaving me to sit back, relax, and catch up on season two of True Blood. I mean, surely after […]

Dear loser: the joy of the rejection letter

January 3, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

When I was sixteen and selling my face to Japanese marketers, my agent told me not to take rejection personally. “It’s just a business” she said, “don’t get down if some clients don’t like your look.” It didn’t work then, either. I received my first proper rejection from a literary agent about a year ago—and […]