There is one thing to report - the NY agent who has had my book since May (!!!!) says she's been weeding out all her full MSs by reading the first 30 pages - but had decided that mine is a keeper and she hopes to read it shortly.
Fingers to cruciform!
Meanwhile - everything is very quiet - this has been like a week off - not much social life, not much anything... just some light editing and a bit of writing - a couple of thousand words on the new book - but also a sober look at GATD. As usual when you think you've edited, you've lapsed in concentration somewhere... but I am rectifying that. I had a bit of feedback from Tara - she commented on the use of the present tense in the last scene... but I have slipped into it elsewhere - and thought there was too much about the children early on. Perhaps that indicates that the scene isn't really working... but I wanted to establish how much his children meant to him... on the other hand she is writing rather faster paced books... crime novels - so I think a different pace might be allowed, but I can see, going over it, there are places where it drags and it's over-narrated...with luck I should be able to put this right before I get asked for a full read. I think I'll send it to a few other agents in a fortnight's time. I don't feel able to get totally into Last Things until I've heard from an agent... had some feedback. A part of me thinks I will be re-writing both of the books in a hurry soon. I sort of hope so...but I'm not sure, logistically how that will work. I daresay in six months time I may look back at this and laugh!
Fingers to cruciform!
Meanwhile - everything is very quiet - this has been like a week off - not much social life, not much anything... just some light editing and a bit of writing - a couple of thousand words on the new book - but also a sober look at GATD. As usual when you think you've edited, you've lapsed in concentration somewhere... but I am rectifying that. I had a bit of feedback from Tara - she commented on the use of the present tense in the last scene... but I have slipped into it elsewhere - and thought there was too much about the children early on. Perhaps that indicates that the scene isn't really working... but I wanted to establish how much his children meant to him... on the other hand she is writing rather faster paced books... crime novels - so I think a different pace might be allowed, but I can see, going over it, there are places where it drags and it's over-narrated...with luck I should be able to put this right before I get asked for a full read. I think I'll send it to a few other agents in a fortnight's time. I don't feel able to get totally into Last Things until I've heard from an agent... had some feedback. A part of me thinks I will be re-writing both of the books in a hurry soon. I sort of hope so...but I'm not sure, logistically how that will work. I daresay in six months time I may look back at this and laugh!
