This whole writing thing really feels like the proverbial head/brick wall interface. Beta readers enjoy your work, say they'd buy it, ask you to let them know when, not if, you get published, then agents are like "soz not for me lol" when you KNOW that there are worse books than yours out in the wild.
The old William Goldman quote about the movie biz applies equally here - "nobody knows anything". If they did then JK Rowling wouldn't have suffered all those rejections. (She'd be rejected for very different reasons nowadays, which is a whole other story...)
Thank you, Ben! (Thought I'd replied ages ago... but here we are.)
Somebody (no names, you know the drill) told me: agents are busy looking for the Next Big Thing via a process of searching for 'more of the same'. Being a bit different appears to be a blessing and a curse, but the jury's still out on that one.
Great piece, Stuart.
This whole writing thing really feels like the proverbial head/brick wall interface. Beta readers enjoy your work, say they'd buy it, ask you to let them know when, not if, you get published, then agents are like "soz not for me lol" when you KNOW that there are worse books than yours out in the wild.
The old William Goldman quote about the movie biz applies equally here - "nobody knows anything". If they did then JK Rowling wouldn't have suffered all those rejections. (She'd be rejected for very different reasons nowadays, which is a whole other story...)
Thank you, Ben! (Thought I'd replied ages ago... but here we are.)
Somebody (no names, you know the drill) told me: agents are busy looking for the Next Big Thing via a process of searching for 'more of the same'. Being a bit different appears to be a blessing and a curse, but the jury's still out on that one.