Got another couple of rejections recently -- nice ones -- bringing my grand total to three.
It occurred to me the other day that it's probably not going to be easy to sell Nine Days. I mean, *I* am sick of having to choose between syrupy cozies or torture porn in the murdery mystery genre, but that doesn't mean there's a vast swath of others out there like me, with money to spend on books. Any agent / publisher that takes the project on is going to have to be willing to step out on a limb with Julia Kalas. She's neither girly sex kitten nor evil paranormal dominatrix, and those seem to be the only two sellable choices right now for female protags. So I guess I have some sympathy for the agents reading my queries. They're probably scratching their heads and thinking, "I like the writing, but I dunno if I can sell it." Which is way less ego-crushing than imagining them thinking, "What a load of crap!"
It occurred to me the other day that it's probably not going to be easy to sell Nine Days. I mean, *I* am sick of having to choose between syrupy cozies or torture porn in the murdery mystery genre, but that doesn't mean there's a vast swath of others out there like me, with money to spend on books. Any agent / publisher that takes the project on is going to have to be willing to step out on a limb with Julia Kalas. She's neither girly sex kitten nor evil paranormal dominatrix, and those seem to be the only two sellable choices right now for female protags. So I guess I have some sympathy for the agents reading my queries. They're probably scratching their heads and thinking, "I like the writing, but I dunno if I can sell it." Which is way less ego-crushing than imagining them thinking, "What a load of crap!"
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