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Philippa East replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
ps does anyone know about rescuing injured snails? I ran over one with the mower this morning, and it completely lost its shell. Now I have it in a Tupperware box next to me on the sofa, not knowing whether it would be kinder of me to just put it out of its misery :/
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Philippa East replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
Great stuff, John T! I wish you all the best of luck with it. Sounds like you’ve done your research well, and are targeting the right options. I did love the sound of your book when you told me about it at York last year. Have you read “Owl Song at Dawn” by Emma Claire Sweeney?
Raine – I seem to have crossed with you!
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Philippa East replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
Hello All!
Lovely to be here, and thanks for the cuppa. Just what the doctor ordered. 🙂Well, following on from my news back on the ol’ Cloud forum a few months ago, after signing with agent Sarah Manning, I completely wrote the book as planned. That was a real slog, but I got there.
I sent the initial draft of that to her in June. Thankfully,…[Read more]
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Hello! NOt seen you for a while- How are things going? Have you had comments back on the wip from agenty-agent?
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Hi Raine
Lovely to “see” you. I’m good thanks. Yes…. I got feedback on the novel re-write from Sarah. She was very happy overall with the initial draft (structure, pacing etc.), and then sent me edits on the first third, focused on ensuring all the characterisation, motivations, dynamics etc. were properly set up in the opening act. I’ve ju…[Read more]
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Yay, that all sounds so exciting, and you are getting closer and closer to going out on sub! Are Sarah’s edits big or not-too-scary? Will keep edity fingers crossed for you.
Me… ha. Sort of an indie pub deal, sort of an agent offer, sort of several agents who said dont sign till you hear from me, and still havent got back. So yeah. Lots of ugh.
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Oh man, you must be on tenterhooks!!! What does “sort of an agent offer mean”???
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Yes, the edits from Sarah are manageable. I had to rewrite the book pretty much from scratch, so I knew there would be plenty editing to do. I don’t mind. It’s nice to have time to transition between signing with an agent and going out on sub.
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That delay between agent and sub does sound good. I went out about a month after signing with agent, and was reeling a bit!
Agent… It’s a long story. He’s helping with current one, but wants to meet before signing for long term. It’s complicated and I’m still looking elsewhere.
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Philippa East replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Thanks for the tip, Daeds. Also trying to edit my profile pic…. might need to try on laptop rather than iPad.
Novel is going okay, thanks. Just sent latest round of edits to my (!!!!) agent.
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Philippa East started the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
I have packed my few belongings and scrambled over here. Looking forward to setting up camp (den?) with you all.
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