Rem Imposters Again!
Tuesday 5:50 p.m.
The internet was off for a day or so and then it came back on. Google literary agents, thrillers, London. I came upon this passage which was praising the Darley Anderson agency. I've seen a couple of these and I wondered who there might specialise in thrillers. Of course, I got a knock back from Julia Churchill from Darely Anderson just yesterday, but it was all very civilised and I had her email address there, so I emailed to ask if there was someone in her office who'd look at a couple of chapters of a thriller.
So I got the name of someone who would look at the book and that someone was her. Really surprised, I thought, what? But that really cheered me up. At least, that's one agent I know how to approach since she told me how to submit stuff to an agent yesterday. I've not to tell them about my webpage or my blog, and don't send them press clippings. So I'll send her three chapters, a synopsis and a covering letter tomorrow, and keep mum about that other stuff. She almost certainly won't want it, but she'll know that I can write more than one kind of book, so you never know if that might help somewhere down the road.
The thriller is Bomber. I'm rather fond of that book. Before I re-wrote the novel, I adapted it for the Traverse Theatre so I've made some money from the idea already. Nice to have someone reading a bit of it. Anyway, if she asks to see the whole book, I'll know that doesn't mean money and after the Light in the Dark scenario, this whole interaction will be much better no matter how it goes.
If I'd been rude, or even felt like being rude, about Julia Churchill in my blog yesterday, I'd never have thought of emailing her today, and would not have had that little flicker of encouragement today. It's nice to be nice!
The internet was off for a day or so and then it came back on. Google literary agents, thrillers, London. I came upon this passage which was praising the Darley Anderson agency. I've seen a couple of these and I wondered who there might specialise in thrillers. Of course, I got a knock back from Julia Churchill from Darely Anderson just yesterday, but it was all very civilised and I had her email address there, so I emailed to ask if there was someone in her office who'd look at a couple of chapters of a thriller.
So I got the name of someone who would look at the book and that someone was her. Really surprised, I thought, what? But that really cheered me up. At least, that's one agent I know how to approach since she told me how to submit stuff to an agent yesterday. I've not to tell them about my webpage or my blog, and don't send them press clippings. So I'll send her three chapters, a synopsis and a covering letter tomorrow, and keep mum about that other stuff. She almost certainly won't want it, but she'll know that I can write more than one kind of book, so you never know if that might help somewhere down the road.
The thriller is Bomber. I'm rather fond of that book. Before I re-wrote the novel, I adapted it for the Traverse Theatre so I've made some money from the idea already. Nice to have someone reading a bit of it. Anyway, if she asks to see the whole book, I'll know that doesn't mean money and after the Light in the Dark scenario, this whole interaction will be much better no matter how it goes.
If I'd been rude, or even felt like being rude, about Julia Churchill in my blog yesterday, I'd never have thought of emailing her today, and would not have had that little flicker of encouragement today. It's nice to be nice!
posted by Hotboy at 5:46 PM
2 Comments:
I'm glad you found the golden rule helpful. Whatever the agent requests, submit it. Whatever the agent doesn't request, don't submit it. Saves on postage too.
The UnHeard Herald runs a weekly feature called the First Page Test, where they reprint the first page of a book and then analyse it. I did my own road test on page 1 of Bomber, and it passed. I want to know whether the guy's thoughts ever clear. I may have to read page 2.
Good luck. If all else fails, would it be worth using a nom de plume to change gender? It worked for me.
Take a look at De Brett's Peerage - she might be related to Sir Winston, in which case you might want to take out, or maybe exaggerate, anything offensive to his memory. Whatever you do, it will all balance out in the end.
I have just read page 2, where the guy starts writing a story about himself, and realised it's thoroughly postmodern! You may have been ahead of your time.
Now I'll have to read page 3, to find out how he knows on page 2 that he has to flee, yet he doesn't even know his own nationality.
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