Starlog

  • SUCCESS! Holy Sh— Um— Wow! BEST WEEK EVER!

    Okay, I admit, I am a Twitter stalker. Some people make it easy. They use Twitter as a method to voice what they are feeling about everything from the weather to really important stuff… like editors reading submissions. A few days ago, the editor that has had my manuscript for quite a while tweeted: “Catching… Read more

  • How to Publish Topic #3: Bigger than you can imagine houses

    We’re continuing our Monday discussion of different ways to get published. Today we’re talking about large publishing houses. It wasn’t until recently that I realized that there were a “Big Six”, because there sure are a lot of OTHER houses out there that can give you exactly the same stuff.  Some take unagented manuscripts, others… Read more

  • Rejection. Sometimes coming to grips is harder than others.

    Like everyone, I’ve had a lot of rejections. Usually form rejections. I brushed myself off and moved on. But none of them stung as badly as this one. 83 days— twenty three days over their posted “get back to you” deadline, all leading to a form rejection. Rejection. Wow. I was speechless. Took me a… Read more

  • Sixty-three days and counting. It’s Submission Crunch Time.

    Sixty-three days and counting. Crunch time. I always swore I would never let querying get to me. Up until the last few weeks, I’d approached it with a grain of salt. Oh, yes, I gave it my all, but even after getting requests at a conference from a great agent and the YA editor from… Read more

  • How to Publish Topic #2: Do I want a Big Six Publisher, and Why?

    This is something I think a lot of people struggle with. Not too long ago, authors did not have the choices they have today. If you wanted to get published, you needed an agent. Period. And that agent had only a handful of publishing houses to get you book into. Not so today, but let’s… Read more

  • Unexpected High Points While You’re Waiting on a Submission

    The torment of waiting can have its high points The clock is ticking on a manuscript I submitted now 51 days ago. Within another week (hopefully) I will hear something. It’s good they have it a long time, right? If they hated the first few pages, they would have stopped reading and rejected it by… Read more