Aside from being a good potential title, it happened to me today. I was driving along, minding my own business, and a fairly young man — sixteen or seventeen — changed lanes without looking. He took off my mirror and scarred up both driver’s side doors pretty well. My insurance company says it’s probably two-three …
Seth Godin’s blog has some advice for authors, which includes this statistic from parapublishing.com: “58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.” Is that deeply troubling to anyone else? Thanks to Eoin Purcell for the link.
When I began Lithium I had a very clear notion of the kind of novel I wanted to write, or rather the kind of novel I didn’t want to write. I’d had enough of irony and wanted to write something earnest and real. Irony is one of my favorite subjects. It’s a powerful tool in …
And then there’s this article over at Salon.
Well, since it was Thursday when I sent my submissions out, they should be arriving in New York sometime in the next couple days. And that’s got me thinking about the dreaded slush pile. Just what is a slush pile? I’ve read a description of one system over at Miss Snark’s blog which can be …
I went on a little exploratory drive tonight out to Fall River. At first I thought it was an incredibly depressing city, not at all what I expected. The mall was a collection of discount stores, and, in place of department stores like Sears or JC Penny’s, on one end was a Wal-Mart, and on …
Today I mailed five more submissions out: Kathleen Anderson, Julie Barer, Elyse Cheney, Carol Mann, and Denise Shannon. That brings my total up to six, and so far all of the agents I’ve queried have been women. It’s interesting that so many women are agents and editors. Perhaps there’s a correlation with sales stats that …
the game’s afoot! Nicole Aragi’s assistant has kindly replied with a form e-mail indicating Ms. Aragi’s client list is full. At least the reply came quickly. It didn’t even take them a whole week. Now…who’s next?
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned here before that I have an ‘idea’ for a second novel. Well, I do, but it’s just an idea. It’s frustrating to sit with this half-formed notion in my head day after day. It’s tempting to just set it aside. But I remember that my earliest thoughts about Lithium …
