Adventures in Querying Agents

Now, this was not supposed to be my second blog entry; I had something much grander in mind.  However, I just had a traumatic experience that I wanted to share.

I recently discovered this literary agent who seems to be really into epic fantasy - which is really, really rare (more on that in a soon to be published blog entry).  The bio on his agency website reveals a child/teen reading list that was identical to mine.  He even likes to write fantasy himself.  Perfect.  It just so happens that I have a new and improved query letter to submit.

So, I'm putting this e-mail submission together and I'm almost done - but not quite - when I hit "send" by accident...

Whoops.

What to do?  Re-send it?  Send a quick memo letting him know what I did?  Do nothing?  Close my eyes and put my head in the ground?

So I resent it, with a quick blurb about the mistaken previous submission.

And now I feel the need to watch "Swingers..."

"Swingers" Answering Machine Scene


Yeah, I won't hear back from that agent.

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Greetings & Salutations!

I would like to promise you that this will be the most interesting, insightful, wittiest and funniest blog you will read, but if it is any of these things, it will probably be by accident.

My goals for this blog are far less grand.  In short, I would like this blog to:

1) Chronicle my personal writing journey.  Part journal, I suspect a majority of my entries will reflect my own personal quest to develop my writing into a career.

2) Spotlight great writing.  An equal number of entries will be dedicated to looking a little more closely at examples of writing that have impressed me in some way, whether it’s funny, poetic, or insightful.  This will not be a review of books in their entirety; rather, the focus will probably center on components like voice and style and all the various elements of story.

3) List or link to writing resources.  On occasion, I’d like to support publicly many of the online 

resources that I have found so valuable.  In addition to the “Blogs That I Follow” widget in the sidebar, these entries would be a more in-depth look at something another site has focused on.

And there you go.  Thanks in advance for taking the time to take a look.  And, of course, any comments or feedback would be much appreciated!