Jethro Weyman

Live and let live, tha’s mah motto.
Welcome Thea! How is your writing going??

Can I add something extra to this list, Jules?

By all means, give examples of how differently something could be written when you give feedback – sometimes seeing the work written differently helps you as the author to understand what difference that kind of change could make to your story. But don’t be tempted to completely rewrite the whole…[Read more]

My agent experience is somewhat limited, but I’d add that it’s not the end of the world if you don’t get one.

Although I worked with an agent for two/three years, when she decided not to work with me any further (bearing in mind that nothing was signed between us in all that time) it gave me the freedom to strike out on my own. Course, I…[Read more]

There’s this topic and a sticky FAQ page which is closed to comments, Barny. Otherwise it looks fine in my browser.

Hi Laure. please forgive me if I sound silly aking this question, but should I know you from the Word Cloud?

I feel like ýou’re talking from personal experience here, Ath 😁

Hahahaha! I got that, don’t worry 😀

**** Agreed that making mistakes isn’t the end of the world! Not agreeing that YOU had made mistakes!!!****

Arg.

Mosquito? Nope.
I got up from watching TV last night to help a bug about the size of this asterix [*] off my lap and outside.
I think, why kill it when it would take, like, 5 seconds of my time to save its life? I mean, just coz he’s little an’ all.
Don’t worry though, in other ways I can be proper horrible. … And sometimes, there are just…[Read more]

Agreed.

Oops! But the good thing is that making mistakes isn’t the end of the world – which you have proved! And I’ve had plenty of mistakes along the way too…

Hi Laure!

Yes, good to mention that you’re submitting to other agents, and to note any interest shown to nudge them along (generally. Just not specifically).

@Skylark – I meant naming specifically! All my cover letters said “the full MS is currently with Sarah Manning”. [face palm]
No agent commented on it (even during my one-to-ones at York), but they probably were a bit like… “I didn’t really want to know that”.