Some particularly unusual shoes (they're made of paper!) for KS, who asked in a comment on another post, "I have a pretty unusual name, but there's another writer out there with the very same first/last name who's posted her own stuff (which isn't spellbinding) on writing.com. I'm scared to death anyone Googling my name will find her stuff and assume it's mine. Am I right to be worried?"
Monthly Archives: November 2008
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This is, according to Google, Trevor the Turkey, who loves shoes almost as much as I do. And so, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, a list of things I'm thankful for:
kt literary author S. Terrell French has a fantastic new website up for her debut novel Operation Redwood, which Amulet Books will publish in April 2009, for Earth Day.
Some particularly memoir-able shoes for Susan, who asks, "I was under the impression that non-fiction, including memoir, is sold on a proposal and sample chapters. I do not have an agent yet, but in May saw a call for submissions from a publisher that I think would be suitable for my memoir, so I sent them a letter and the required 30 pages before their June deadline. I recently I received an e-mail from the publisher's assistant, asking for the full manuscript. The e-mail mentioned my "novel", but did not indicate whether they had read the 30 pages I had submitted. My question is this: is memoir really treated like other non-fiction genres?"
A whole series of shoes for Andrea, who writes in, "I've completed the first novel in what I've anticipated to be a mystery series. I have the second book in the series fully plotted and a few chapters completed. Do you think it makes sense to continue writing the second book in the series without securing representation on the first?"
You know what we haven't done in a while? Some Ask Daphne! questions! So let's rev up our turducken-(or tofurkey-, or just plain turkey-)eating engines with a whole week's worth of questions and answers. And remember, if you have anything YOU want to know about the biz, all you have to do is email me.
All right, gang, here's the final round of answers to JenFW's question: When editors search the internet for further info about a potential author, what are some things that make an impression, good or bad?
On my reading, that is. Not, unfortunately, on my NaNoWriMo novel, which may need to wait until next year to actually count. Rexroth continues very well with his NaNovel, and enjoys reading bits of it out loud to me for my reaction. Luckily, I enjoy hearing them.
Fellow lit agent Nathan Bransford is afk right now, but he's got some great guest posts up on his blog right now, including this one from his Curtis Brown coworker Ginger Clark on attending the Frankfurt Book Fair.