Writing is the easy part. Not sure where I read that. Not sure who said it. Come to think of it, maybe it was me.
The thing is this. When the writing’s done, the heavy work starts. And that’s where I’m at. Looking at all the heavy work I need to do. Starting with “the pitch.”
You writers know what that’s like right?
Selling a book idea to an agent or publisher, for me, ain’t easy. Maybe it’s because I’ve never really been very good at selling. But it’s a job that needs to be done. And I’ve got to do it.
I’m working on it man. Working on my pitch. Working at my synopsis. Working on matching my book’s genre to a rigid classification system. Contemporary? Commercial? Up-market? Or my favourite, genre slippery.
Yeah, genre slippery. I kind of like that one.
Anyway. I’ll let you all know how things go.
Thanks for reading.