JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
My husband, Joe, bought these gorgeous roses for me. He thought they would brighten my week as I plowed through another set of edits, revisions and changes.
What! you say. More edits? More revisions? Are you kidding me? Didn’t you just sign with a literary agent? Continue reading “When Your Agent Says: Love Your Novel, Now Change It”
If you google the phrase “how to get literary agent,” you will find at least 20 Google pages of results. The accumulated information comes from writers’ websites, writers’ magazines, from bloggers, from literary agents themselves, from editors eager to polish up your manuscript before you submit to an agent and from authors — like myself — who have found an agent. Continue reading “How To Survive Your Search For A Literary Agent”
I spent the better part of last week saying things like, “My agent said….”
“My agent thinks…”
“My agent is waiting for my revisions…”
That’s right. That means the deal is done. I have a literary agent. Continue reading “How I Got The Literary Agent I Really Wanted”
I love reading. I’ve always loved reading. I think I love reading almost more than I love writing. It’s certainly easier than writing. I didn’t think reading one book a week would be any kind of a problem. So, as I blogged last week, I pledged to read 50 books this year in the Goodreads Reading Challenge. As of this week I’ve read 44 ( I got behind because of my own writing and edits on Book3.) Six more books to read in the next 9 days. Piece of cake!
In the meantime, here are my top picks in the following categories: Continue reading “Top Book Picks Of 2018 In 10 Quirky Categories”
I’m going Behind the Scenes again with Part Two of my report on the Writers Boot Camp for which I signed up as part of my “epic” effort to produce a third thriller. Last week I explained Why I Signed Up. Today: I Look at Whether I Benefitted from the Exercise? Continue reading “Writers Boot Camp: Was It Worth It?”