The sun has set on the era of Karen crushed, sulking, hiding, endlessly rewriting and re-editing Heirs of Mâvarin, making excuses not to send it out again because what if it's rejected again?
Okay, yes, it's a corny metaphor, this sunset thing. But I took these sunset pictures as I left the Cherrybell post office tonight, having finally mailed three-chapters-plus-synopsis to Tor. So it's kind of an appropriate metaphor anyway.
It's been eight and a half years since I last sent this thing out, also to Tor. The only marketing attempts I've made in recent years were five queries I sent to agents in 2002. I got three form rejections of my book, one form letter that said the agency wasn't currently looking at screenplays, and no reply at all from the fifth agency. I don't quite know which agencies they were, because the info was stored on a Writer's Market Online page I can't get to.
Oh, please, please, please like what you see, Nielsen Haydens! Look! The envelope has real, printed labels! And no hair!
Karen
4 comments:
Those photos are amazing! Stunning and impressive. You impress me, and I am proud of you.
Just want to say good luck ... we're all counting on you! ;-)
The sunset was beautiful... I'm praying that the right pair of eyes fall on your story... it's like you've taken that step into the dark place. You are doing what many fear to do, step into the unknown, or for you, maybe it is the known, for you have been there before. I'm praying that this time you find yourself soaring to new heights!
Good luck!!! I've been a terrible beta-reader. I read too slowly. LOL I still owe you my thoughts and editorial comments on book 1.
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