Submitting to Joanna

So my wonderful agent, Joanna MacKenzie, was in town this weekend. We had lunch with my editor on Friday, followed by after-work drinks with my friend Abby, who was an intern at Browne & Miller the same summer I was. Since Joanna is actively building her list, I asked her what she was looking for, [...]

Theraquery

God, puns/portmanteaus with the word “query” in them are hard. Lesson learned! Anyway, you know how querying is the first step to getting an agent? Well, sometimes, despite how hard your project rocks or how good a writer you are, your query sucks. Don’t feel bad, so did mine, I’m pretty sure. But the very [...]

OOC

ETA: In my personal news, I finished my AUT revisions! I think I’ll let it sit a week or so then go back to excise extraneous adverbs, but otherwise Round 1 is complete. I didn’t catch this until way after it was posted by both Gawker and Galley Cat, but apparently there is an editor [...]