Category: How I Published My Novel
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How I Published My Novel: Part Ten – IDGAF About Querying
So for those of you following along, I’m still in a bit of a slump. I’m passively avoiding writing and when I do manage to get a few words down, I feel disconnected from them. I’m not going to get into it, because honestly everything feels really hard lately and…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Nine – A Nice Depressive Slump
Of course, this novel that already brought me to the very pits of my emotional broken nonsense, would do it again during the query process. I thought I was fucking ready, you know? I’d read all the things about not giving up and how it takes time. I’d read all…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Eight – Hamster Wheels
My last post was about revisions. (And if you’re wondering why I haven’t posted anything in a month, stay tuned for next week when I talk about my post-hamster wheel depressive funk.) I’d gotten twenty rejections so I went in and tried to troubleshoot a few things I thought might…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Seven – Rejection and Revisions
Well hello kids. And adults. And those who might categorize themselves as other things. I have an update for you about the trials and tribulations of getting my novel published. I’m going to start with something good, because the rest of the post will be a bit rough I think.…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Six – Gillian Flynn and John Green
I am pretty on the fence about whether or not it is good practice to send unpublished books to friends and family. The reasons for and against both make sense to me. It’s natural to want to share this thing you’ve been working on for however long. For me, it’s…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Five – I Worked on Something Else
This is how you survive the waiting: You find something else to keep your mind busy. You finally read the books you’ve been adding to your Goodreads want-to-read list. You make a list of things to get done around the house that you’ve been putting off while you finished writing…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Four – Rejection F***ing Sucks
At the start of this week I had planned to write a blog post about the reasons why I am keeping up this blog. But then something happened. I got another rejection. Which means I’m in double digits now. 10. I’ve gotten 10 form rejections so far. And yeah, I…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Three – My First Partial Request
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! AN AGENT REQUESTED MORE OF MY BOOK AN AGENT REQUESTED MORE OF MY BOOK AN AGENT REQUESTED MORE OF MY BOOK HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!! Who’s screaming? Is that me? Couldn’t be. I am calm and cool and definitely not jumping up and down right now… Ha.…
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How I Published My Novel: Part Two – Waiting is My Life Now
Help. Someone send help. And chocolate. And alcohol. And the biggest mountain of nachos the world has ever seen. I am querying. Insert string of expletives here. I knew the mechanics of querying. Get all your ducks — query letter (or two), two-page and five-page synopsis, the freaking book itself…
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How I Published My Novel: Part One – Queries, Synopsis, and Dragons, Oh My
Ugh. Like, ugggghhhhhhhh. I’m going to bet any writer who has ever tried to go the traditional publishing route is nodding their head at this right now. Because, ugh. Queries. A synopsis. Like, just, ugh. John (my writing coach), could see that feeling written all over my face when we…
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