Lauren Baratz-Logsted | Lauren Baratz-Logsted
May.24.2013
The Moment I Was Called A Stupid Bitch: I was invited to write a guest post for a popular blog. I chose to write about one of my pet subjects; well, maybe pet peeve is more like it. I wrote about the misogynistic practices of the New York Times Book Review. Much of what I wrote focused on...
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May.23.2013
The Moment I Got Agent 6: So I had three things I wanted to sell: the Victorian suspense novel, Vertigo; the YA novel, Angel’s Choice; the proposal for the short-story anthology, This Is Chick-Lit. I let my writer friends know that I was in the market for a new agent and asked for referrals...
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May.22.2013
The Moment I Parted Company With Agent 5: Well, that was fast. Although Agent 5 had offered to represent me because she fell in love with Z: A Novel, her associates at her agency didn’t love it as much as she did and so she thought Vertigo would be a stronger book for her to go out with...
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May.20.2013
The Moment I Got Annoyed: I read the news that there was an anthology coming out called This is Not Chick Lit. The idea behind the collection was that there were too many pink books out there, crowding the bookstores, making it impossible for those looking to read more literary efforts from...
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May.19.2013
The Moment I Stumbled Into YA: Writers write, so I started writing a new novel, chasing an idea that had caught my fancy. But, me being me, the book I started to write was like nothing I’d written before. Angel’s Choice is about a girl on the fast track for Yale who, on the eve of her senior...
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May.18.2013
The Moment I Got Agent 5: An agent read Z: A Novel and fell in love with Zorro, which I appreciated. A comedy writer shouldn’t laugh at her own jokes, nor should she boast about her own creation, but I couldn’t help it, I was in love with Zorro too. So when Agent 5 offered to represent me,...
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May.17.2013
The Moment I Wrote Even Faster: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has long been my favorite novel by a dead author. I was reading it for the umpteenth time when the thought occurred to me that I’d like to do my own re-visioning of it, only mine would be a contemporary comedy-drama...
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May.16.2013
The Moment I Let Agent 4 Go: At one point, my publisher had asked if I’d write a short story for their website as a freebie for readers, a promotional incitement. They were willing to pay me three thousand dollars for it. So I did. If you don’t know much about the story market, back in...
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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
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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