February, March, 2012: Submitting query letters, synopses, and partials to agents and editors, as requested or required. Crossing all body parts!!! Also hard at research for book two in my historical trilogy. Love it!
January 2012: Working on a few things in my profile for authorsalon.com where I am listed with my historical, The Loyalist’s Wife. This is an idea whose time has come. Authors put up their bits according to a set profile system and agents and editors go scavenging for clients, a good system for all.
November, 2011: The Algonkian-Niagara Writers Conference was a major step in my journey to publication.
1. I learned how to do a pitch for agents and editors, met many unique and hard-working people, both writers and people in the writing business, and came away exhilarated.
2. The most exciting thing? I pitched an agent from a large agency in Toronto and a senior editor from a very large publisher in New York. Both have requested a partial submission of my novel, The Loyalist’s Wife.
Hi Elaine,
Yes, I do get homesick for the culture and then I go home. I have an international set of friends from Australia, the United States, South Africa and Italy here in Germany and that is very nice. Right now I am in the process of looking for a English speaking writers group for Romance here in Germany. If I don’t find one, then I will start one. It is really a good tool for a writer of any genre to have a group of their genre for writing support. I do most of my connecting with my editor on Skype. She sits in Alabama and I am here, but those are those late nights that I look forward to. Skype has become one of my best friends.
By the way, i love my iPhone, iPod, iPad and MacBook. I use Apple products because they are the best. I have the first generation iPad but will invest in iPad 3 and will go over to the iPhone 5, because I would like to use Siri and that is only in the iPhone 4S, sometime this year.
Have a great day.
Ciao,
Patricia
Hi Pat
Love to see another techie person who loves to write. I think I’ll stay with my iPad2 for a while but wish my iPhone 4 was the 4S just for the reason you mention. I want Siri! Hasn’t technology created a lot of us wanna haves? Interesting.