Posts Tagged ‘Short Bus Journal’
Oops, I Did It Again.
Man, what a dumb word: Oops!
“Oops, I accidentally dropped a 40 megaton bomb on the state of New Mexico.”
“Oops, I guess that pistol WAS loaded.”
“I just fired myself out of a cannon into a cauldron of hot, bubbly magma. Oops.”
Anyway, I just thought I should come right out and tell you that I don’t know when …
Rejection + Comments = Love
Like a lot of things in my frantic world, this is long overdue.
I got a rejection card from Houghton Mifflin, oh…a month or so ago, but I just didn’t have the heart to talk about it. And it’s not because I had all my last hopes for THE SHORT BUS JOURNAL riding on their thumbs up or thumbs down. …
Dang!
So, I’m beginning to think my book The Short Bus Journal is dead in the water. I just got a reply from an agent (who got a query, a synopsis AND 10 pages of the book) that simply said:
“I did not like the diary format.”
Ouch. I wish I could say that was an isolated reply, but the truth …
Things That Have Happened Recently
Little TKT in a rare moment of charity, 7.4.07I gotta prepare my latest entry in the Thursday 13 series, so I’ll hit you up with some quickies.
1. Dyed my hair. Got sick of looking like my dad, so I darkened it up. Funny thing. People would always comment on my graying hair (you look so distinguised!). So far …
Value
Hey Party People. What up?
If you were looking for my very first Thursday 13, it’s right here. You could, you know, scroll down and see it, but I know some of y’all are all about the convenience. Me? I love a good value.
Actually, I just like the word ‘value.’ Try it out a couple times. Value. Vaaaaaluuuuue.
Okay. …
Good News, Good News…
(the subject line is to be read like Roscoe P. Coltrane from the Dukes of Hazzard)
Well, I fired out a couple more queries today and lo and behold…
One stuck.
An agent (who shall remain nameless for now) replied within an hour and a half with this nice message:
Dear Thomas, I would love to read this story. What …
Update!
Well, it’s not huge, but it sort of is to me, so I’ll post about it.
Remember that swell agent I mentioned a post or so ago? HR? Remember her?
Well, I got a request to send her my FULL manuscript yesterday. Considering she’s only the SECOND person to request it, I’m breaking into impromptu white-boy dances left and right.…