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?
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More on my continuing mission to bring you all the answers you ever wanted from all the editors I dared to ask.
Happy Monday, all! I managed to get a cold this weekend, but I'm soldiering on, and still hoping to get caught up on queries REAL SOON. Thanks again for your patience. But let's move on to the exciting stuff! JenFW wanted to know: When editors search the internet for further info about a potential author, what are some things that make an impression, good or bad?
Ok, guys, we got a lot of great questions for my upcoming trip. Now, as promised, I'm posting what I think are the best or the most popular three questions, and you guys get to decide, in the comments, which one question I'm going to post to each editor I see in NYC in the forthcoming week. Ready?
It's another one of my favorite holidays around here, and real quick, before I run over to Trixie's school for her Halloween party -- I come bearing butterfly wings and homemade cupcakes! -- I wanted to share my latest excitement:
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.