ThomasLitchford

Note: This is by far the most frequently trafficked post on my blog. For additional posts on my search for representation, click here. For those of you seeking more information on Ms. Aragi, click here.
Here’s the letter (e-mail) I sent Ms. Aragi:

Dear Ms. Aragi,
I am writing to query Lithium, a 75,000 word complete novel. [...]

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OK, it’s done. The horrifying first step has been taken. I’ve queried Nicole Aragi, who represents Jonathan Safran Foer, Colson Whitehead, and Monica Ali, among others. She seems to accept only e-mail queries, which, though quick and easy to send, is not in itself a good thing. It means she receives a lot of queries [...]

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I haven’t sent any query letters, yet.
Is it because I just moved and haven’t settled into my new house yet, or is it because I’m procrastinating? Initially I was waiting to send them until I’d moved. Well, I’m here. What am I waiting for? (It’s a rhetorical question, but, if you must, answer it in [...]

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I went to see Clerks 2 last night and was pleasantly surprised to see a sequel that had all the charm and hilarity of the first movie. Kevin Smith goes to extreme lengths to match the obscenity of the first one (I know the first movie was the first time I’d ever heard of a [...]

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Well, I’m here. Everything is still in a jumble (the dominant color scheme for my current decor is baby poop brown, a.k.a. cardboard), but I wanted to post something just to let my thousands of readers know I’m still alive.
The drive up here was like hell. My car was so full of stuff that I [...]

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My move to Newport is only a week away, so I’m getting ready to start sending queries. The really good news is that I have family and friends who have contacts in the publishing biz. This was all news to me, a sort of gift I got at my sister’s wedding (I know, I [...]

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I wrote in the previous post that if a writer has talent, s/he will write. Good grief! What an over-simplification!
Writing takes more (or less) than talent. It takes desire. Perhaps more than talent. People who some would say have no talent still write, and write a lot. People who have talent but no drive write [...]

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Is there really any such ‘thing’ as writer’s block? Does it exist as a condition? It sounds like a neurosis. It sounds as if some foreign agent has foisted it on you. At the very least, it is your subconcious mind who is to blame.
Here’s an interesting short history of writer’s block as a phenomenon. [...]

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