A lovely pair of shoes from shoemaker Poetic License for Marina, who asks, "Lately I find myself gravitating toward YA novels in verse. In fact, I'm more than halfway through writing the first draft of my own YA verse novel, and I'm wondering what you think of them. Are you interested in receiving queries for this type of book?"
Monthly Archives: August 2008
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Shoes that were given away in a contest for C.C., who writes, "Okay I have written a manuscript and am now trying to find a good publisher. I had a publisher interested but when he found out I was only 14 he kind of stopped writing back. Then I found a web site about the Random House Young Novel writing contest. But if submit my manuscript, I am legally not allowed to send in the novel into anyone else until they pick the winner in roughly 8 months. I was really hoping you could give me some insight on what is a good decision, to submit or not to submit."
Another nice review for Suite Scarlett from the blog >YA Romance Challenge. Also...
Gucci shoes -- or are they knockoffs? -- for Jenny today, who writes, "I'm an unpublished author with a novel almost polished enough to query. Today I stumbled upon a best-selling author's blurb for her next novel due out at the end of the year. It's eerily similar to the premise of mine. Since this author is a best-seller and I'm a nobody, will this hurt my chances of publication?"
Not feeling at my best today, I'm afraid, but there's still a lot of great stuff out there on the interwebs to read. Such as...
Scott asks, "Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that somebody queried you and you were interested enough to request a partial, but ultimately rejected the manuscript. Does "no" mean "no for ever and ever," or can a major rewrite pique your interest again after some reasonable amount of time has passed?"
Unfeasible Enterprises over here is having a bit of a water pressure problem -- in that there is none -- as well as a pressure to get a bunch of reading done, both to get back to authors whose material I've been sitting on for too long, and also because I just picked up three new books at the library and I'm eager to read them. And I can't do that until I clear out some of my work reading.
This just in! Our very first review for Ellen Booraem's debut novel The Unnameables, and it's a STAR from Kirkus!
I actually wore almost these exact shoes in high school with my uniform, but these go out today to Beth, who writes, "Could you tell us about some of the distinctions between YA and MG? Would me labeling a manuscript as YA be a death knoll for my query if the agent thinks it's better off as MG?"