https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/ Deus Vexat Aleas - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 19 May 2009 15:57:17 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios mesummer personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/224115/308066 https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/ 80 100 https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/647.html Tue, 19 May 2009 15:57:17 GMT https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/647.html Woe! Rejected by agent. *le sigh* To make myself feel better, I will query five more agents this week. To be realistic, however, I will also re-double my efforts on the non-novel job search. Alas for unattainable dreams...so tragic, so bittersweet...<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mesummer&ditemid=647" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/647.html agent rejection Pockets Full of Woe by Woebegone woeful public 0 https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/393.html Sat, 16 May 2009 16:02:20 GMT https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/393.html *yawn* I'm up way too early after a night of drunken debauchery, and what is my first thought? Which chapter should I put the conversation about the kiss in? Because I've only just realized DUH there needs to be a conversation about the kiss! Michael doesn't give up that easy, and Persephone's not getting off without a healthy dose of angst.<br /><br />So in case you hadn't guessed, I'm a masochistic lunatic, I mean, novelist, who has yet to publish anything. I am determined, though! Okay, maybe obsessed is more accurate. My goal is to get an agent sometime this year, hopefully before I starve from lack of work. (In the 5% of the time I don't spend freakishly ripping apart and putting back together my novel, I am an instructional design contractor.)<br /><br />I have had a nibble from an agent. A very, very tiny nibble. After sending a query letter and the first scene of my novel, she emailed me requesting the first 50 pages. Score! Of course, after three weeks of not hearing from her, I emailed to check in and she not only hasn't read it, she can't find the file in her email inbox and she asks me to send it again. Fail! *facepalms* I did send it again, but I still haven't heard back, and I'm not planning on it at this point. So, onward and upward.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mesummer&ditemid=393" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://mesummer.dreamwidth.org/393.html agent intro dance club remix of Back to Life by Soul II Soul (on repeat in my head) determined public 0