Well, having thought long and hard on Janet Reid’s post of March 30, 2008, I think my best option is to finish the S.L. novel, and shop it instead of the recently completed T.W. or the nearing completion T.V.S. That said, I probably ought to email the agents with T.W. and pull it from consideration. I won’t, but, if the first book is the easiest to sell, the second and third ones harder unless the first does exceptionally well, it seems wise to back off of shopping T.W. Since I know S.L. is a hot property even though it isn’t author final yet, I suppose that’s where I’ll head. Sad, because T.W. is a very good read — serious, though, not funny/scary like S.L. — but, hey, you gotta go with what you know is going to be a hot seller in any market, so now everything gets shelved except for S.L.
Yet, I believe in T.W. It’s a potent story. Oh well. If you only have one shot, I guess it’s best to do the “for sure, for sure, good buddy” book, even though it isn’t my primary style and genre, but a secondary subgenre. Hmmm. Wish I could ask someone…like a literary agent.
Recently:
- Writing Pedagogues
- They Work Very Hard
- Treading the Dangers of Fiction
- Infighting About Grammar & Punctuation
- Scary Writers
- New Novel, Chapter Two
- To the Book Store
- New Novel Amid Chaos
- Raw Gore, Explicit Cruelty, Debased Sex in Novels
- Back from Summer Hiatus
