It’s been a long strange year. And it’s been a long, strange 20 years since I started Butterfly. Since then, we’ve invented gasoline, fire, Turkish delights, the mob, clip-on pants, and the NHL has still never figured out how to let their fans watch their games online when they really want to, legally. Butterfly became…
It’s been a while since I’ve queried any agents and, for some reason, looking out over a wild and wooly lake in County Kerry, I decided to have one last crack at getting Trip to the Quiet Room into the hands of an agent. Well, the tools agents are using are really excellent now… I…
Following on my last post, that ever hopeful sending off of actual pages to a literary agent, I was going through my submissions list when it dawned on me that I’ve been sending out packages to agents for Trip to the Quiet Room for a long-ish time*. For the curious (?), I use Tinderbox (yes, I…
I’m thinking I may need to re-think my strategy for submitting good old Trip to the Quiet Room to agents and publishers. I’m thinking of ditching the query letter altogether and going with pictures of cats reading books. Thoughts?
I feel like I should get some credit for including at least three of the ten trending micro-genres, according to Audible.com. Trip to the Quiet Room is a story about an ex-hockey pro struggling with his retirement, possible post-concussion symptoms, family life after the daily grind of a professional athlete’s routine, and the explosion of a…
More adventures you probably want to hear about in my thrilling hunt for an agent for Butterfly, a novel! (Psst… don’t miss the original) [View the story “The Agent Hunt, Continued” on Storify]
A little story about the currently in-progress agent hunt. [View the story “The Agent Hunt” on Storify]