So a reporter called me today, looking for information for a piece (I can't tell you the specifics, but) on query letters--a very clever angle. We got to talking about whether or not she'd include the link to this blog--which is where she found me--in the piece.
"Well, we should mention something," she said. "Otherwise, they'll be reading this and think you're sitting at home and making pie charts for yourself...which could seem a little weird."
I laughed--it was one of those interviews where it felt like chatting with a friend, rather than putting words down that will become a matter of public (or Google) record.
"Yes," I said, not mentioning the poster boards and giant, smelly markers--the evenings before conferences that I spent in the living room, my roommate looking on as I tried to use a box of cereal as a straight edge--or the big, side table tabletop I use to make the circle that holds the pie.
"Yeah--that could sound pretty weird," I said.
3 comments:
I found you googling Literay agents too. The whole GATEKEEPER title sounded so ominous, so serious, dangerous even. Like, with a name like that, you know what you are talking about.
Plus I couldn't get that scene out of my head from Ghostbusters with Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver.
I said to myself, she seems pretty cool. LOL.
Let us know when the article appears. I'd love to read it.
Well, if you make the pie chart out of actually pie, that might actually be less weird... or just more delicious.
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