Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
help me stalk you
About Me
- moonrat
- I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful. Painfully self-conscious, woefully self-congratulatory, willfully self-indulgent. Yes, I'm white, but I'm trying to get over it. Accurate spelling (to the dismay of my boss) is not among my interests. So read forgivingly.
Favorite Backlist
- FAQ about the Ass
- Moonrat's Guide to Getting Published
- Moonrat's Guide to Getting a Job in Publishing
- What Makes a Dream Author
- Why You Should Never Submit Unagented to a Publishing Company
- How Royalties Work
- What's Safe to Publish Online?
- Rules for Not Making Editors Hate You
- Marketing Your Book (and Knowing What to Ask Your Publisher to Do)
- Things You Should Be Able to Expect from Your Editor
- It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That an Individual in Possession of a Word Processor Must Be in Want of a Book Deal (Lessons of Publishing from Jane Austen)
- Sonnets for Moonrat by Beloved Readers
I've been editing today
Editorial Ass's Top 3
Subscribe To
Posts
Comments
Labels
- ABBA (1)
- acquisitions (1)
- advances (5)
- Afghanistan (2)
- agents (16)
- alcoholism (1)
- aloe jelly (1)
- Amazon (3)
- authors (15)
- awards (2)
- being broke (8)
- bestest news ever (34)
- bestsellers (6)
- bizarreness of the english language (1)
- blogging (2)
- blurbs (1)
- Book Book (4)
- book club (16)
- book reviews (6)
- book-making process (1)
- Booker Prize (1)
- books for women (1)
- books into movies (2)
- booze (4)
- Brooklyn (1)
- Buddhism (1)
- buying books (3)
- Celebrate Reading (26)
- Celebrate Reading Month (1)
- character assassination (1)
- cheese (1)
- contest (4)
- copy (3)
- covers (5)
- Dadrat (8)
- dark side of publishing (4)
- debut novels (1)
- delicious foodstuffs (14)
- delivery (1)
- diversity (1)
- drunken blogging (1)
- ebooks (1)
- editing (44)
- Editorial Ass's Top 3 (8)
- editors (2)
- everyone at my company is crazy in their own special way (1)
- Filipinos (7)
- friendship (2)
- genre (1)
- gluttony (1)
- google (10)
- Gravity's Rainbow (14)
- Harry Potter (15)
- I am a big dork (2)
- I am a loser (12)
- important news (35)
- independents (1)
- indie rock moment (13)
- industry (19)
- internet book publicity (2)
- Italians (1)
- Jane Austen (1)
- Jesus (1)
- karaoke (1)
- laundry (5)
- Leon Uris (1)
- literary fiction (1)
- living green (1)
- long books (1)
- marketing (6)
- Michael (blush) Chabon (2)
- Mole (6)
- Momrat (18)
- movies (1)
- MTA (1)
- my assistant (8)
- my designer (9)
- my sister is awesome (1)
- New York (10)
- nonfiction (3)
- overshare (3)
- package (1)
- pain (9)
- platform (2)
- pretty things (1)
- print on demand (1)
- print runs (1)
- Project Fill-in-the-Gaps (4)
- proposals (1)
- publicity (10)
- Queens (6)
- raffle (2)
- Rainy September (2)
- rally monkey (28)
- random stuff (8)
- reading (54)
- rejection (2)
- rejections (1)
- RENT (1)
- responsible media (4)
- returns (1)
- revisions (4)
- Richard Belzer (1)
- rights (1)
- Robert Jordan (3)
- Robert the Publisher (1)
- Robert the Publisher's Gem of the Day (23)
- royalties (4)
- Ryan Adams (1)
- sales (10)
- self-pubbing (2)
- serial (1)
- short stories (4)
- small houses (1)
- sonnet (7)
- spam (1)
- spiders (1)
- stupid author shenanigans (6)
- submissions (22)
- sushi (2)
- the Aunda (10)
- The Rosie Taylor Project (1)
- The Sound and the Fury (1)
- The Wheel of Time (12)
- titles (2)
- top ten ways to blow your book deal (1)
- Trinity (1)
- unsolicited authors (3)
- who is this twerp waltzing around and pretending to be an editor? (5)
- William Faulkner (1)
- women and fiction (4)
- woot (1)
- word count (2)
- work (2)
- writing (27)
- Yiddish (8)
Project Fill-in-the-Gaps
20 comments:
Hey Moonrat!
Congrats to Kate Lord Brown... how fantastic to be picked up by an agent!
Now, i do have question: it's typical to get an agent only after you've finished a manuscript right? I've got a partially completed novel and would love to get professional feedback on it. Would shopping around for an agent be a good idea?
- josh
You know, Josh, my hunch would be that agents will probably prefer a finished novel, but I'm not actually sure. I'm sure I've heard stories about people landing agents before they were done with their novels (and certainly nonfiction projects sell before they are written all the time).
I'll have to defer to one of my agent colleagues on this, I'm afraid...
Hooray and congratulations to Kate Lord Brown! It's always encouraging to have evidence that agents are still signing people, even with all the publishing economy crumminess.
I've been told repeatedly and often that its best to have a complete (and polished) novel before querying an agent. Especially for a first book.
The reasoning behind this is that finishing a book is hard. (And as someone with several beautifully edited and glowingly polished not-quite-finished-novels, I can second that.) An agent can't sell a partial novel, so they would be reluctant to sign the author.
That's what I've been told. But I'm not an agent, so feel free to correct me....
Congrats to Kate!
Hooray for Kate! Congratulations on landing an agent and good luck with the sale of your book. Have we wheedled the book's plot out of her yet?
congrats!!! josh, you don't want to begin querying until you've got a completed novel and it's as best as you can offer! i revised mine for a year. good luck!
It's always nice to hear good news in this hard economic times. Way-to-go Kate!!!
Joshua,
Not only is it not done (trying to get an agent with a partially-finished non-fiction manuscripts), but you will not be getting free professional feedback that way.
Ways to get professional feedback: go to conferences and workshops, join a writing group (online or in person), pay a freelance editor.
Correction - that should have been "fiction," not "non-fiction."
You can sell a NF on a proposal, but you'd better have a platform.
Congratulations.
There is so much good news on this site recently; I wonder if the pub industry is as bad as we hear.
What say you, Moonie?
Thank you Moonie, and thanks for everyone's good wishes! Over the moon to be working with Sheila - she's a brilliant agent.
The first book is called 'All the Lovely Ruined Things': Maya Dumas discovers over the course of a summer that 'love and loss come in equal measure' when she returns home to paint her estranged mother's portrait. Secrets about her celebrated American war photographer father emerge, and Maya's life changes forever as she is drawn back into the world of her peripatetic childhood. It's set in New York, London and wild and the beautiful Devon coast of south west England where I grew up.
Congratulations to all the Mischief gang for a great year ... feels like we are bucking the doom and gloom news doesn't it?
Coming in late (blame the the time zones!)but congratulations to Kate Lord Brown - this is more good news in times which are filled with dire predictions. Your story sounds great!
Congratulations from me too! This blog does seem to be charmed...
Congrats Kate! The premise of your novel sounds wonderful. Best Wishes.
Congratulations, Kate! I love your title and the plot sounds very intriguing.
I love this blog. Thank you for creating it. I found it on Lyda Phillips blog (writerworking). I don't know you Kate, but I will throw in my congrats as well. It's always fun to celebrate anyone's creative accomplishments!
Josie
Kate, I'd buy your book based on the amazing title alone!
Congratulations on getting a great agent; I'm sure a wildly successful auction will commence any day now...
Cheers!
It does indeed seem to be the charmed blog. Kate, congrats! Your book sounds fabulous.
Thank you Mischief makers! Will let you know as soon as there's news x
It makes my day coming to you blog and hearing about the success and not the gloom!
Congrats Kate! I hope you sell a zillion of them!
Post a Comment