Seems I've done nothing but business travel, promoting the book via two conferences. The response to the piece I read was tremendous and gives me hope for this book. I wish I had started the process of finding an agent about a year ago--I had a lot of conflicting reports about whether a book has to be totally finished or not before one finds an agent--turns out this doesn't have to be true. Oh, well, it is what it is. I'm sending several queries out today--I've decided a multiple submisison right now is probably okay.
I was at a conference in Westwood, so decided to see my family in the San Fernando Valley. My younger sister was wonderful; she took me to the two houses I grew up in, which figure largely in the book, as well as my Aunt Anna and Uncle Mike's house, and my grandparents' graves. We got to the cemetary quite late and almost got locked in! I left feeling very happy to see family and very much on fire to finish the book. I've accepted that I am a very slow, meticulous writer; this is combined with a very busy family life, and so it makes for difficulties in sitting down and working--plus, I'm writing about one of the most painful times in my life, when my grandfather killed himself. I feel I lost my mother forever at that time, though she was still bodily present, and it takes a lot of fortitude to sit down and work on this stuff.
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Writing through the hard stuff...I'm so grateful you're working on it, because it enriches humanity...as hard as it is to actually accomplish.
And as far as multiple submissions: ABSOLUTELY! I sent out to 5 at once and heard from 3--and eventually got my agent from that batch.
Did I tell you about: www.agentquery.com? Great place to find one.
Thanks again, kate--I really appreciate your support. I do know about agentquery.com--I have a list of five agents I checked out through them and am doing the multiple submission this week. peace, Joan
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