{"id":530,"date":"2009-11-17T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/more-writing-advice.html"},"modified":"2009-11-17T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T01:28:00","slug":"more-writing-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/more-writing-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"More Writing Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SwH8WEWFI5I\/AAAAAAAADEY\/mJwWXXv5b3Q\/s1600\/pens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SwH8WEWFI5I\/AAAAAAAADEY\/mJwWXXv5b3Q\/s400\/pens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404878483874980754\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillarymantonlodge.com\/\">Hillary Manton Lodge <\/a>left the following comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/questions-from-writers.html\">this blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I think it&#8217;s important to add that, even as you shop books, it&#8217;s important to be writing others, and mention them in your queries\/cover letters. If an agent\/publisher likes your writing style but isn&#8217;t interested in that particular story, listing others can be a wise move.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for pointing that out, Hillary. I&#8217;ve come across lots of writers who do one book and work hard to find a publisher, but they don&#8217;t do another! You have to keep writing&#8230;start another project. Let those editors, agents, and publishers know that you&#8217;re working on another piece. If you meet an editor at a conference, and she doesn&#8217;t like your idea, you could always say&#8230;&#8221;Well, I&#8217;m also working on XYZ project, maybe you&#8217;ll like that idea better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth a shot. For the most part, I&#8217;m always working on something, and if you&#8217;re trying to get a contract with a commercial publisher, then you should always be working on a book!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Hillary Manton Lodge left the following comment on this blog post: I think it&#8217;s important to add that, even as you shop books, it&#8217;s important to be writing others, and mention them in your queries\/cover letters. If an agent\/publisher likes your writing style but isn&#8217;t interested in that particular story, listing others can be [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-8y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}