Quick Update

Joe was kind enough to work with me on producing a tighter query letter (Thank you, again) and I've started the process all over again with a new sheet of potential agents. I did find this tool that I thought you would be interested in:

Querytracker.net

The free version allows you to search for and contact agents that specialize in your particular genre of writing - before this I was sitting there with a copy of Writer's Marketplace and a highlighter, noting potential agents and putting them into a Google doc.

This is a laborious process as you can imagine, since Writer's Marketplace is published every year and contact information can change quickly. I was still having to Google each agent for more information after reading through WM and I found it exhausting. So we'll see where this goes - I'll keep you posted.

Still...

I describe myself as a 'successful writer' in that, I've written something and sometimes people care to read it. As Mr. Quirk points out in other blog posts - most writers also have day jobs and I'm no exception. As it stands, I work in a fairly large and unnamed corporation as a contract IT resource - I'm the guy that you don't think of as very important and ironically, I've seen all of your emails and personal files. Weird.

More Quirky Love

Joe Quirk over at SFGate gave me some more love yesterday - I feel all fuzzy inside.

"Starting Over" - Published on Hackwriters.com

(Just Like) Starting Over was re-published on Hackwriters. It was first published on Indiebloggers.org (now dead) and I'm happy to see it get some life again.