Thursday, 25 November 2010

At last!

My agent has just come back to me (about Basic Theology for Fallen Women), and she really likes it ("enchanting and different" she said. Yay!). I don't have to tell any writer out there how relieved I am - you all know what it feels like - but there were so many things she wanted changed that I was really worried that I wouldn't manage them all. She reiterated that the market is very difficult at the moment, which I knew, but at least I have one (professional) person on my side.

Phew!

(And good luck to others waiting, especially Alis and Aliya. I do hope you get your news soon.)
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11 comments:

  1. Tim Stretton25 November 2010 at 16:46

    Whew!

    That's great news, and a big hurdle overcome. Fingers crossed for future developments!

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  2. Teresa Ashby25 November 2010 at 16:51

    Great news, Frances!

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  3. no25 November 2010 at 16:55

    YAY Frances! And thanks for the good wishes.

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  4. Deborah Swift25 November 2010 at 22:09

    Oh brilliant, great stuff. Those adjectives make me want to read it! Hope it finds a good home soon.

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  5. Frances Garrood26 November 2010 at 09:31

    Thanks, everyone. Now for the next big wait! (We seem to spend a lot of our time waiting, don't we?)

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  6. Alis28 November 2010 at 22:50

    HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY! I'm so happy for you, Frances - well done! Good luck with the rewrites...

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  7. Frances Garrood29 November 2010 at 09:39

    Thanks, Alis. That's really sweet of you. Your turn next!

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  8. Alis29 November 2010 at 18:06

    I really hope so!! The waiting is beginning to drive me a little bit mad...

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  9. Frances Garrood29 November 2010 at 19:02

    Oh, poor Alis! I really think that waiting is one of the hardest things we have to do in life, from waiting for a dodgy medical test result to waiting for exam results to...well, you know what I mean. But your book is quite long isn't it, so to give it proper attention will take time, I suppose. But I've got everything crossed for you.

    To return to the Archers, we were right. There IS something wrong with Helen's baby!

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  10. David Isaak30 November 2010 at 23:43

    Woo-hoo!

    And, when isn't the market difficult? I read the published letters of Maxwell Perkins, and he was claiming, back in the 1930s, that the market was difficult, and that in fiction the publishing industry was overly devoted to the mad pursuit of the bestseller.

    PS. I thought The Archers was the film production company of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes, etc.). Obviously I'm thinking of the wrong Archers.

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  11. Frances Garrood1 December 2010 at 10:22

    Thank you for that, David.

    No - the Archers are a very boring (radio) farming family. The programme used to be called "an everday story of country folk". and that just about sums it up, especially the everyday bit. You don't have to listen to it too often as virtually nothing happens. So why do we listen to it at all? Good question. And at the moment, we - or at least, I - need to know what happens to Helen's baby.

    (If you want to know anything about cow noises on the Archers, Alis is your woman).

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