Publish a novel

I think it’s the story I need to tell. Maybe now I’m ready to tell it.

I talked with my agent about doing another rewrite. She was new to the business when we started together about a year and a half ago. She’s since had a lot of success and learned a lot, and was very excited about a rewrite. So now the book is in the hands of a book doctor (editor) who I used to take classes from. I’m waiting for her notes and thinking about possible ways to up the stakes in the novel.

I sent my agent a couple of snippets from the new book the other day. She sent them back with critique, which was not what I was looking for. Just wanted to give her a flavor of what I am working on because I’m pretty lame about talking about the work when I’m in the middle of it.

One of her comments really got my goat. I swear, she has a lousey vocabulary. She has tried to correct my correct use of an unusual, but not unheard of word a few times. It’s sort of shaking my confidence in her as an agent. That and the fact that it takes her forever to come up with another list of editors to send to.

Just wondering how one goes about switching agents, whether it something I should even be thinking about, whether it’s just shooting myself in the foot.

So, the other day I read that more books were published this year than in a long time, but fewer of them were in the literary genre. Mine’s literary.

I would love to write a best selling book, but I am so not interested in women in New York City buying outrageously expensive shoes and having sex in cabs…or whatever it is that Chick-Lit is all about.

My day will come! (Imagine me, ala Vivien Leigh in GWTW, raising my fist to the air with a root vegetable in the other hand!)

I mean, yeah, I wrote it, now I want it to see the light of day!