Not a New Year's resolution, but a goal--something you wish to accomplish in 2009.
Me? I will send out query letters and get an agent. Shortly thereafter, you will be reading my Road to Publication story on this very blog.
"Oh," you say, "is that all? Why don't you hit the NYT bestseller list while you're at it."
I have confidence I can do it. This is coming from someone who hasn't even sent out a query letter yet. But, for some reason, I know I will get my book published. What's that old song by Journey? "Don't stop, believinnn..."
That song is now forever associated with Tony Soprano's demise. At least I think it was his demise.
I also hope to get out of the corporate whoring world of advertising.
Whatever, I digress. So what will you accomplish in 2009?
Check out that orange...whatever on Steve Perry. Classy.
Back from a wonderful holiday break. Finally reading Twilight. It certainly keeps one turning the pages.
I just finished my novel a while ago and will start writing query letters soon. This is the scary part, as I'm sure a lot of you know. What happens when your dream agents pass on your MS because your query doesn't grab them? That has to be an awful feeling. You mean I'm being passed over just because my query sucked? But don't you want to read the book, anyway? It's really good!!!
Doesn't seem fair, but I can see how agents can only respond to queries that excite them. So I'm curious, writer friends. How much stressing did you do over query letters? Did you get them critiqued on message boards? Did you rewrite them a million times? Did you just go for it and send the first one out that you wrote? Curious minds want to know.
