By now, most of you who know me * know that I have a conflicted relationship with the practice of yoga. As I’ve said in the past, yoga makes me tense. All that breathing that needs to be coordinated with movement and all the while you have to think mindfully and deeply and yet let your worries go; this strikes me as multitasking. There’s just too much going on. On the other hand, I know it’s Read more…
I had queried 48 agents and a handful of editors, and I had gotten very little response. A few had asked for the first three chapters, but mostly I got initial interest from my query letter and then either a form or a personalized rejection. No, however, means no, and I had started to make my peace with that. I wasn’t completely sanguine — sometimes I felt sad that the characters in my novel, who Read more…
Fifty was the magic number. I told myself I was going to query 50 agents and if I didn’t find an agent or a publisher at the end of that time then it was time to move on. My reasoning was this. I had done a lot of research and had read in a couple of places, either on Kristen Nelson’s blog or Miss Snark, or various other industry blogs, that it looked bad if Read more…