Mrs. Cynthia Hand,
I would like to start by saying your
book is one of the best impulse-buy books I've bought in a long time.
I had gone into Barnes and Noble to get a different book
when I saw yours too (I'm attracted to shiny things). I had
decided to buy it, good or bad, because I wanted to support a local
author. I myself live a stone's throw away. The
copies there looked a little roughed up from shipping, but had it not
been for that, I would not have dug through the selection and found
an autographed copy, something of which I've never had before. I
finished your book in four days and can't wait for more.
I already have a novel I've been
wanting to publish too, with the sequel quickly on its way and
several other stories that, with some polish, might be presentable
too and I was wondering if you could answer a couple of
writing-related questions for me?
I read through your blog about the
whole process of you being published, but I noticed it started out
with you already having an agent. How did you get one? Did you do
research, pick someone out, and then send a query letter? Or was it
by means of a previous acquaintance? Or just happenstance?
Do you think an agent is practically
required to be published? I've heard of people just sending their
manuscripts to editors at publishers so that it might happen to catch
someone's eye, but I'm not sure how effective that would be.
Were you able to get anyone else to
review your manuscript before you sent it off? My dad's reviewed my
manuscript, which was actually quite helpful and full of critique,
but no one else seems to want to. They keep saying they're worried
they'll offend me.
I've been passionate about writing for
a long time, and have been writing seriously for seven years now. I
was hoping you could help me because you've recently been through it
yourself.
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