As I caught up on my blog reading this morning after taking yesterday off to try and finish Kindar’s Cure (I failed, but I hope to have it done before tomorrow’s over), I ran across these two gems from Janet Reid. I love reading her blog (and QueryShark); I’ve learned a lot since I started.
Anyway, these two tidbits made me laugh, the first because it’s totally true and the second because, well, I’d like to see that happen (the drinking editors under the table part, followed by that letter). So, please to enjoy:
There is no right way to do this. There’s the way you do it (which you’ll kick yourself for doing) and the way that Other Writer did it (which will make you think Oh, I wish I’d done that instead!) The reason is that the grass is always greener in the other WorryWart’s pasture.
Here’s where I’m very much NOT the dream agent for very good writers. I’ve read a couple darn good novels this year that I had no idea what to do with. I passed with great sorrow BUT the author deserves an agent who knows what the next step is, and I didn’t. I mean short of sending it out to every editor I’ve drunk under the table with a cover letter that says “this is good, buy this” (Ok, I’ve done that but it’s not really a strategy you want to encourage.)
To read the whole post, click here. As always, it’s chock full of wisdom.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 
Hmmm. As much as I’d like an agent, perhaps I shouldn’t send a submission to him/her. Probably better that I don’t know the name of the company.
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She’s not the right agent for me, either – she doesn’t represent my genre – but her blogs are always informative and usually funny. 🙂
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I’ll take a look. I could do with cheering up with this english weather.
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Our freezing rain finally arrived and I had to go out in it. If that’s not depressing, I don’t know what is. Lucky for me, my toasty warm down blanket fixed me right up. 🙂
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Rub it in, why dontcha?
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, we’re due for some more freezing rain tonight, followed by eight inches of snow, cuz that’s how we roll here in the Midwest.
Have I mentioned lately that I really hate winter?
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I love winter but we have the most ferocious storm hitting the entire country of England tonight. bbrrrrr
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We’re stuck in the deep freeze. It’s positively frigid out there; I think the temperature is somewhere in the teens below zero. Brrrr is right!
Merry Christmas! 🙂
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You too. One thing is for certain, my motorbike is staying in the garage for a few days.
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I wouldn’t mind leaving my car in the garage, but it won’t fit – the door’s too narrow. Thank goodness the one out at our new place is wide enough to accommodate a modern vehicle.
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Yes, but now the kids are going to demand a new vehicle.
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Not yet. None of them will be old enough to drive for at least three more years, and then it’s up to them to procure said “new” vehicle. Not that their other parents would force them to stoop to manual labor to get what they want, but I guess someone has to be the ogre, right?
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Yup
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