Sorry for my complete lack of postiness yesterday! After the weekend off, and a busy day going through queries, I just plum forgot! I try to make it up to you today, I’ll put up another About My Query post shortly, and will answer some of the questions posed in the previous entries.
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Cute shoes just because I like them for Blogger C, who writes, “Scenario: Enthusiastic response from the target audience (literary young adults who hate English class) to a series of posts on my blog has given me confidence that it’s a good non-fiction book concept. But there’s a dilemma: I can’t stop posting each new chapter draft on my blog, even though I want to sell the writing in a book. But is this a problem, or an opportunity?”
We’ve got Olympic fever over here at kt literary, even though my favorite summer sport (gymnastics, of course) does not involve shoes. No worries, though. We found these giant Olympic shoes featuring the Beijing mascots. And so, in keeping with my very rare sports fever — time trials! (Otherwise known as the Ask Daphne speed round.) On your marks, get set, go!
R.E. asks, “I have a group of friends that are reading the second draft of my book and helping me with problems by discussing ideas with me and editing chapters. I finally have chapter one to a place where I am happy with it, and I wanted to put it up online so only my friends could see it, but I’m afraid that if I do the book would already be considered “published”. ”
