the writing life | the writing life
May.14.2013
I am getting ready to send my current novel out into the world, so I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the process of submission. I don’t mean just the physical process of manuscripts, cover letters, and plot synopses, but the emotional process. The complex mass of conflicting feelings writers...
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May.14.2013
The Moment I Realized Something Was Wrong: Crossing the Line was about to pub and I noticed a strange thing – there were no reviews from the pre-pub trade magazines. This struck me as strange. Not every book gets reviewed by any means, but I had been a reviewer for one of the pre-pub trades...
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May.13.2013
I’m putting a few finishing touches on my young adult fantasy novel, and soon the work I’ve been laboring over for four years will be on its way to my agent, so naturally, I’m worried I’m going to die.
I do this every time I wrap up a long-term project. I start getting scared that, before I...
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May.13.2013
The Moment I Realized Just How Great Adriana Trigiani Is: I was at Book Expo America in late Spring 2004 because Crossing the Line was due to be published in a month or so. Scheduled to do a signing in my publisher’s booth in an hour, I was part of a long line waiting to have Adriana...
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May.11.2013
The Moment I Wrote A Book Really Fast: So it was the end of August and I needed to come up with and write a book that was due to be published 11 months later. That’s when I had my epiphany. Having never intended to write a sequel to The Thin Pink Line, which to me had completely addressed...
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May.10.2013
The Moment The Royal Family Screwed Me Over...Again: Book 1 was out, it was the end of summer and we were working on getting Book 2 ready for the following July, Book 2 being Falling for Prince Charles, my alternative-universe romantic comedy about a Jewish cleaning lady who falls in love...
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May.09.2013
The Moment I Realized Some Things Point North: One fun thing about being an author, if you’re lucky, is seeing foreign editions released of your book and the various covers your book winds up with. The Thin Pink Line was published in several countries, including England, France, Italy, Poland, The...
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May.08.2013
The Moment I Got An Option: My agent got in touch to say that a small production company wanted to place an option on The Thin Pink Line. I would get X up front, then Y if a TV movie got made or Z if it became a film. Really, it all sounded good to me. Here was this book that my previous agent hadn...
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May.07.2013
The Moment I Was Almost On TV: A woman at a TV station about an hour from me got in touch to say she wanted to interview me on a particular Friday in August – hey, I wanted that too! But a few days before the event, I began itching all over and breaking out in little red spots, so I went to the...
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May.03.2013
The Moment I Was Glad I Hadn’t: Most published writers know the moment. Your book is out there, it’s up on Amazon, a nasty review pops up, or there aren’t enough reviews, or you have plenty of reviews but you’re greedy and just want one more, and you think to yourself, ‘I’ll just post a...
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