Missing links

Don’t look now but I’m staring at my screen attempting to write. So in the meantime, here are some links I’ve been meaning to post:

The blog, 52 Novels, is featuring the top six blogs of writers you probably don’t know (or don’t know you know). Since you’re here, you already know about one of ‘em. But the other five are definitely worth checking out.

My agent, Kristin, did a follow-up on my query, posting the letter she sent to editors when we went on submission. You know when agents send those rejection letters saying “I just didn’t fall in love with it”? This is blushingly the opposite. I probably don’t mention it enough, but Kristin is a tremendous agent. I'm lucky to have such an incredibly enthusiastic and hard-working person representing me.

And lastly, my friend Jose Mojica posted an interview last week with yours truly. I met Jose last year at Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp—where he stayed up to all hours of the night working on a 9,000-word short story entitled Fat Town. (Which he promptly sold, after he caught up on his sleep—way to go Jose!)

Okay, back to writing.

I now return you to your previously scheduled procrastination.

Comments

[Ello]

Great interview! Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to hear you call your book contemporary and not historical fiction. I was surprised by that. Really? It's contemporary/literary even though it is set during WWII? I wonder how these classifications are made.

[jamie]

It's a split narrative told in 1942 and then in 1986. So even though most of the book is in '42, maybe the '86 chapters push it out of the realm of pure historical. And I think it's more commercial than literary...who knows?

[Ello]

Very interesting. My book is also split although most of my book is during the war. I can't wait to read your book.