Everyone seems to love a post about your book piles, as I got maybe the most comments on a post ever. Very exciting! Let’s see if we can’t keep that trend going today. I followed a link from Publishing Insider to an article in the Denver Examiner (local!) about what alcoholic beverages one should imbibe depending on what you’re reading.
Happy Columbus Day, all! It’s not much of a holiday in the publishing world, usually, but because this week is ALSO the Frankfurt Book Fair, it is a little quiet. I’ve been able to keep down my pile of queries, and I was able to get a ton of reading done this weekend, thanks to a cold front that kept me cuddled in an armchair almost all day on Saturday, slippers on, kindle in hand.
Back at official kt literary headquarters, following up on all my NYC meetings and responding to those authors who’ve sent me partials in recent history. If you send me a partial and haven’t received a response yet, there’s a good chance I never got your email. Please go ahead and resend it to me. I still have a number of fulls to get through, which I’m tackling this week, and my pile of queries is hovering around 125, so that needs to be sorted out soon, too.
So I’m heading off to the New York office later this week, taking a couple of days off to be with the Unfeasible Clan, and then spending next week running around between meetings with editors and scouts. I’ve got tons of things to talk to them about, but in case the well runs dry, and to prove that I am nothing if not service-oriented, I’m throwing open the floor to questions.
I’m back! And as promised, since EM was quick enough to get an email off to me before my lunch today, I asked my good pal Emma Lollipop, “What’s one piece of information you wish a debut author would know before you take his or her books on?”
