My writing friend, Lyn Cote, has featured me on her blog today. She’s placed the first page of Chesapeake Weddings on today’s post. If you haven’t ordered Chesapeake Weddings, I encourage you to do so! Amazon has only one copy left, and copies are still available on Christianbook.com – the copies on Christianbook are a few dollars cheaper than elsewhere. Also, if you buy at least 3 copies from Christianbook.com, the price drops even more – $4.99 per copy! As I’d mentioned in an earlier blog post, the book is out of print and discontinued, BUT, copies are still available in some bookstores and some online stores. I just saw two copies at the Barnes and Noble in Bowie Maryland last Sunday!
Also, you might want to go to Lyn Cote’s website and check out the submission guidelines for most major Christian book publishers. I’ve found this information helpful over the years, and, one time, I used this information to submit to a new line at a publishing house and I ended up landing a sale at that publisher! The publisher didn’t acquire my book for the new line that I was targeting (the one I’d discovered through Lyn’s website), BUT, they did agree to publish my novel for one of their existing lines!
Cecelia,
You never told me that you used my info to make a sale. How exciting! That inspires me to keep doing this every year.
I also have a page on my site How to Publish that offers the advice ABOUT WHAT NOT TO DO to become a published author. And also some materials that have helped me.
Hope you sell gazillions of this book!
Oh, I never told you? I guess I forgot! I was pregnant at the time of the initial contact with the publisher, due within a few weeks, which is why I didn’t remember. I queried Rebecca Germany because I’d read on your Publisher Guidelines page that Barbour was starting a new Women’s Fiction line and the stories could be romance, too. My book was longer than a Heartsong and Steeple Hill had already rejected it. I queried Rebecca for the Women’s Fiction line and then she contacted me several months later, telling me that they WEREN’T interested in the story for Women’s Fiction, but were interested in the story for Heartsong, but she said I’d need to shorten it. It’s the first book in the novel series, Chesapeake Weddings, entitled John’s Quest! It was released as a Heartsong a couple of years ago.
Hi Cecelia: Thanks for the resource here. I have never really pursued my love for writing, I guess am just content with reading other people’s thoughts and getting to know other people’s characters.