tarotbear
Tomorrow I am sending out the completed Men's tarot manuscript to my present publisher; I have been working and rewriting the book proposal and the book questionaire part (Why should someone buy this book? etc.) and I am going to pack it up and mail it off tomorrow and hope that my super-charged cover letter where I remind the manuscript readers that I already have a well-selling book in print with their publisher gets their attention!
It took two years of work (with lots of time off, believe me) to compile and write this manuscript; my first book took nine months. What with printing hard copies and making copies of the cards for the illustrations and the packing and the packaging, this manuscript represents a lot of time and $$$; the postage alone can get expensive.
When I was getting the contract for the first book, my editor asked if there was anything else I was writing, and when I told her about this project, she said 'this is not exactly something the company would be interested in.' It was too focused, she said. That's exactly why I am writing it I think I replied.
I did send a sample of it to my current publisher and heard naught. I submitted it to a gay publisher and received a rather well-written rejection where they nicely said they weren't sure what to do with it; that, too, was an incomplete sample. I have not heard from a third and I sent them the sample in August 2004.
This is not a sample; it is a complete manuscript with sections on shuffling and sections of spreads, and all that basic stuff. I have 180 pages of text. I am sending this off and ask that you all "do do that voodoo that you do so well." I need to get this second book accepted so I can move forward with my other writing projects. Thank you for your intercessions.
It took two years of work (with lots of time off, believe me) to compile and write this manuscript; my first book took nine months. What with printing hard copies and making copies of the cards for the illustrations and the packing and the packaging, this manuscript represents a lot of time and $$$; the postage alone can get expensive.
When I was getting the contract for the first book, my editor asked if there was anything else I was writing, and when I told her about this project, she said 'this is not exactly something the company would be interested in.' It was too focused, she said. That's exactly why I am writing it I think I replied.
I did send a sample of it to my current publisher and heard naught. I submitted it to a gay publisher and received a rather well-written rejection where they nicely said they weren't sure what to do with it; that, too, was an incomplete sample. I have not heard from a third and I sent them the sample in August 2004.
This is not a sample; it is a complete manuscript with sections on shuffling and sections of spreads, and all that basic stuff. I have 180 pages of text. I am sending this off and ask that you all "do do that voodoo that you do so well." I need to get this second book accepted so I can move forward with my other writing projects. Thank you for your intercessions.