Manic Monday

On Friday, my agent and I had the following Twitter conversation:

Ana Ramsey

#FF love to my dear agent @BookCannibal. You should follow her because she's my agent and she rocks. :-)

 

Cameron McClure

@anaquana Thanks! When a woman with pink hair in her photo tells me that I rock, that's the kind of compliment I take seriously!

 

Ana Ramsey

@BookCannibal *grins* Well, I hope the fact that the pink is only photoshopped on doesn't make you think less of the compliment. ;-)

@BookCannibal I *am*, however, seriously contemplating dying it purple for Vegas next week. :-D

Cameron McClure

@anaquana Oh no! I do think that somewhat diminishes your rock star cred, and, by association, the credibility of your compliments

 

Ana Ramsey

@BookCannibal Oh dear... Guess I'll have to take some of @ChuckWendig's advice abt how to become a writing rock star. http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/27/turning-writers-into-motherfucking-rock-stars/

 

So, yes, dear readers, I have gone and turned myself purple. It took 3 bottles of Splat Lusty Lavender hair dye to get it done, but I now look like a damned Faery. 

 

 

 

OH MY GODS!!!!

I have an agent!

I am so very excited to announce that yesterday I accepted representation from Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency! She loves the story and the characters and is very excited about it, which makes me ecstatic. She does want me to do another rewrite, but I can handle that.

Oh my gods, oh my gods, oh my gods!!!

*pinches self*

Doubts

And the doubts have set in with a vengeance...

I finished the revisions and sent them off to the agent who requested them. Now I'm worried that I didn't take them far enough. That I didn't do enough to make it good enough for her. I'm so worried about this my stomach is tied up in knots.

The three people who read it over for me before I sent it out all raved about it, but I just can't help but doubt.

Too many awesome things have been happening for me and I can't help but think that something has to give. I've NEVER had so many good things happen to me all at once and I'm a little wary.

Success!!!

On Tuesday I had my conversation with the second agent. It was a much quicker call than the one with the first agent. The second agent gave me a few revision suggestions (far fewer than the first one), then told me a little bit about herself and her agency. I explained to her that I was doing revisions for another agent and asked if she wanted me to send her the new version when I was done with it.

She said she would love to take a look at it, but her offer of rep would still stand!!!

I have an official offer of representation from an agent!

I'm going to finish my revisions for agent #1 and see what she says before making my decision. However, no matter how this plays out, I'm going to have an agent!

When No Means Maybe

Persistence really does pay off. I found that out first hand this week.

After emailing back and forth with the agent who rejected my revisions, she asked for a phone conversation to talk about further revisions. We spent an hour and a half talking on Monday afternoon. She offered me a LOT of very detailed crits about what she did and didn't like. After thinking about them for a bit, I agree with most of them.

I'm going to spend some time doing these revisions for her and then she wants to give it a third read-through. A THIRD read-through!!! So many writers don't even get a first read-through and here I am getting THREE! From an agent with one of THE top agencies.

Hear that, subconscious? If an agent of that caliber likes the novel, then you are not allowed to bad-mouth it any longer!

Also, I have another agent who is nearly done reading the full and wants to talk and offer suggestions.

*dies*