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Two years ago this January I put the first word of my novel down on paper. Now I have four books under my belt. Isn't that crazy? Man oh man, I love this writing thing!
I've been hard at work getting my fantasy story ready to send out to agents. It's going through the wringer with my critique partners, and I have been busy with all the other 'stuff' that comes along with trying to get an agent to notice your work. The query is pretty much set. And it's good (I think). I had an epiphany this week where I realized that the query for my first novel wasn't that good. It was ok. But it told too much. I didn't know how to make it zing. This one zings. (I think/hope/pray). The synopsis just needs some minor tweaking and other than the really random things some agents want included in a query, that stuff is good to go.
I hope to get all my chapters to my critique group by mid-December, then go through the manuscript with a fine tooth comb, making final line edits. I have 35 agents on my list to query, carefully researched, selected, and rated. I've decided to send queries out in batches of 7 and have already arranged agents into groups, because this is what my type A mind loves to do. It's so satisfying to see things come together to the point of being ready to send stuff out.
Hopefully, queries will start going out just after the new year. Ya'll, I'm so stinkin' excited about this story. I'm getting great feedback and sometimes I'll just sit and read it and think "holy smokes, I wrote this?". Great characters in this one. I had no intention of writing a sequel when I first wrote it but now? Holy smokes. So many places this story could go *cue goose bumps*
I have my fingers crossed that this one will catch someone's interest. And maybe, just maybe, you'll see this story in print some day. It's a lot of hard work to get there. Because, as the Fairy Godmother said, "Even miracles take time." ;)
We'll see what happens. In the meantime, I leave you with some teasers of pictures I had in my head when I wrote this story.
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