Last Saturday at this very moment, 5:10 p.m., I was standing in line at Crime Bake waiting for my turn speed-pitching an agent. It was pretty exciting, standing with five or so other writers, all of us wondering if the agent we'd gotten assigned would bite at our book ideas. Mine didn't, as I wrote last week. Fine. Chalk it up to learning experience.
Next morning at breakfast, we decided to gather all the Maine folks around the same table. One writer I had just met gave me her agent's name and some valuable info about the type of cozy mystery she writes. Some publishers will give you a book deal without a finished manuscript.
I was going back and forth wondering if I should take time away from my non-fiction beer book, and decided to go for it. I printed out the submissions guidelines from this agent's website, ticked them off as I wrote them, and said to my husband, "Wish me luck, I'm about to press "send."" And I did it.
Now I am scrambling to think up some pithy, pun-filled book titles and book jacket copy for the mysteries I want to write. One series will feature the subject I'm pretty well-versed in: beer. The other subject is a recent passion of mine.
Wish me luck!
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