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la_belle_laide ([personal profile] la_belle_laide) wrote2013-03-12 08:02 pm
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Rejections and taxes and tree frogs




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Auwe, the agent who asked for an 8 week exclusive on my novel (after 3 months exclusive on the first 3 chapters,) decided she didn’t feel “passionate enough” about selling it. >_<

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Bleh. Oh well! Onwards and hopefully upwards!

I don’t think I’ll be giving any more exclusives, though. That came out to five whole months of querying that I’ll never get back.

Err, unless I was super duper into the agent I guess. :) Then I’d consider it.

Still, I think it’s a good sign that this is all totally subjective now. Like, lots of agents have said that they thought the writing was great, it just wasn’t necessarily their thing. And we know it has to be a perfect match.

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AND I’M NOT OUT OF CAKE.

Actually, I don’t have any literal cake. But I do have girl scout cookies. ^_^

Then tonight, my accountant came by to go over taxes with me. Since I pay at the end of the year, I need someone to do all the complicated stuff for me, and I need to dig through every write-off I can find. Like travel, insurance, college loan interest, etc.

And then I heard the tree frogs outside. I have to document that every year. First night of the tree frogs. :)

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[identity profile] misstottenham.livejournal.com 2013-03-15 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Think of it as every time someone requests to check out your work, you are one person closer to getting published. You have to wade through the crap to get to the good stuff sweetie. You'll get there.

Joy

(Anonymous) 2013-03-16 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, that's disappointing. :( Selfish reason: I have been following your blog for a long time, and I really wanna read this book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diU70KshcjA&list=PLACFB636E06EF79CC&index=1

Maybe this will cheer you up! (The Pocahontas part...)