Subcreator
Minstrel
I've just finished my first novelA Song of Shadow and Flame” , and I'm nearly ready to submit it to agents. I'm feeling a little trepidation, however, since I've never published any short stories, I don't have any publishing credentials to put in a query letter.
Along the same note, I have a blog, but since I'm pretty apolitical and new to the business of writing, I don't really have anything I can see worth posting. Sure, I have plenty of ideas for my stories, just not for a blog, which I know could help boost my marketing presence. I could put up posts about world building, but I'm not sure how much of Yma (the world of my novel and planned sequels) I should reveal online.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to successfully query an agent when this is my first novel, which I've worked on for about five years (including one complete rewrite), in a world that has been built continually for fourteen years, and when I have no professional credentials to fall back on.
Am I just being too self-conscious about this?
” I should mention that the “song” in the title A Song of Shadow and Flame does actually pertain to the story itself, if that matters.
Along the same note, I have a blog, but since I'm pretty apolitical and new to the business of writing, I don't really have anything I can see worth posting. Sure, I have plenty of ideas for my stories, just not for a blog, which I know could help boost my marketing presence. I could put up posts about world building, but I'm not sure how much of Yma (the world of my novel and planned sequels) I should reveal online.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to successfully query an agent when this is my first novel, which I've worked on for about five years (including one complete rewrite), in a world that has been built continually for fourteen years, and when I have no professional credentials to fall back on.
Am I just being too self-conscious about this?
” I should mention that the “song” in the title A Song of Shadow and Flame does actually pertain to the story itself, if that matters.