Oi, I feel for you skip.knox, if I was thinking of going the self-pub route, this waiting would be giving me more ulcers than it already is! Best of luck when the time comes!
Oh, I figured, it's more of a side thing that I can sell by myself (ideally) to pass the time.
Good point that having actual completed pages of Book 2 will help her sell it better than just "plans" for Books 2 and 3. Best to focus my working energy on that, then, and leave the shorts to the...
Thanks for your thoughts! It always makes me feel a bit better when I can bounce things off other people, and right now my closest writing buddy is more involved in the short-fiction market, where this kind of turnaround would be totally unreasonable.
I'm pretty determined to get this one...
So some background: About a year ago I was querying my novel and had some interest from someone at a Really Big Agency. She had some revision suggestions she wanted to see first, so over the summer I did a big round of rewrites and resubmitted in early fall. But she had just come back from...
Uh...hi. I'm Jen - or, you know, just Trixter - and I've been elbow-deep in fantasy writing for a little while now. I've written some high fantasy romance-y stuff for a niche publisher (who I now edit for), and I'm currently giving myself ulcers waiting to hear back from an agent on the revised...