TLDR: Watch this series of videos if you, like me, are obsessed with the theory of time. Otherwise, read on if you want some history on my early novel-writing efforts and more background on Butterfly, a novel. So a very long time ago I was a graduate from a mostly prestigious college with a degree…
Butterfly, a novel is a book. It comes with words for reading and very few pictures, if any. When one of my first readers gave me feedback one of their comments was “I can easily see this being a movie, and I know exactly the soundtrack!” Well, the book is hardly a book, yet, so let’s…
Yet Another Update:Â The nearly always excellent Chad Finn has a write up of the Bobby Robins NHL experience last night. Update: I should have included a link to one of the first profiles on Bobby Robins to come out since he’s made the big club, by Dan Cagen in the MetroWest Daily News – “A…
Those damn cute kids at Supertart.com have done it again. They’ve launched a social network, and now they’re dipping into the Author Scoreboard market, I suppose. These are, yes it’s true, my current stats, with regards to queries sent out, responses I’ve received, and responses IÂ haven’t received. I’m not quite sure how it works that…
So I’ve been doing the literary equivalent of rearranging the throw pillows in the house, organizing my sock drawer, wiping down the counters. Hunting for an agent is a little like fishing… at least the fishing I did when I was a kid. Most of the time I sat on the riverbank (the French River)…
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]
So it was one of those “hey, why don’t you?” kind of moments. My wife and dedicated First Reader said to me, after the first fifty pages, “Why don’t you make a book trailer?” She explained the pieces she thought would make the cut and I agreed. A few months later, she repeated the same…
So the next batch of manuscripts have been sent off to the First Readers — I’m at the 150 page mark. It’s a little like painting a room. You put on the first coat. Take a break for lunch, let that first coat dry. Put on the second coat on one wall. Notice a spot…