I have no great news to report. The agent who asked for the synopsis and sample chapters of Finnegans Festive hasn’t responded yet. That’s fine. I can wait.
One of the other agents I sent queries to has said no thanks. That’s okay too. It’s not unexpected. I’ll just get out another half dozen queries in [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Just checking in
August 28, 2007
Marketing all the angles
August 26, 2007
I think I noted before that I am going to suggest in my queries that my novels could veer into the women’s fiction category a bit since my protagonist, Ann Finnegan, is a strong character. She is a mature woman with a successful career and a successful marriage. And she has a strong personality and [...]
Away it went
August 23, 2007
I sent the story synoposis and first three chapters of Finnegans Festive to the agent who asked for it. Her website is a bit vague about response time — anywhere from one week to “when we are able.”
In any case, it feels good to have someone interested in the novel.
Now, as I wait for news, [...]
A positive response
August 22, 2007
Big news in my little world! The agent who wrote back asking for the word count on my Finnegans Festive novel has now asked for a synopsis and a “partial” (which I take to mean some sample chapters). So I’ll be sending this out just as soon as I can today.
She had said that she [...]
One a day
August 22, 2007
I had this notion that I should try to submit my novel query to a new agent each day. Seven days, seven submissions.
I know I won’t be able to keep up that pace, but it won’t be for a lack of agents. The more I look the more I find, and though many of the [...]
Early attempts
August 21, 2007
I first started shopping Finnegans Festive around in April. I sent it to ten agents that said they represented mystery novels. I received eight rejections and two silent treatments long after the stated response period had passed. I’ve told myself that I should try at least fifty agents before I start to feel worried and [...]
The canon thus far
August 20, 2007
I have written two of the novels in my series. The first one I wrote is titled Finnegans Awake, which is intended to be a sort of pun, and it begins with Ann Finnegan being unable to sleep because she has left her beloved travel pillow at the last bed and breakfast where they stayed. [...]
Let’s get started.
August 19, 2007
I am writing a series of cozy mystery novels, and this blog is where I intend to document my success at getting them published.
Cozy mysteries are generally defined as those that do not have any explicit sex or graphic murder scenes. Such things may happen in the context of a cozy mystery, but they generally [...]
