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Apr.15.2013
The Moment I Got Offered Another Deal: In April, three months before my first book from the two-book contract came out, I was offered an additional three-book contract from my publisher. This told me they were so sure the first book was going to be a success, they wanted to nail me down for...
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Apr.14.2013
The Moment I Realized I Might Be Odd: Since the contract for The Thin Pink Line involved a two-book deal, we needed to come up with a second book. So I sent my editor three finished books to consider: Falling for Prince Charles, the romantic comedy about a Jewish cleaning lady from Danbury...
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Apr.13.2013
The Moment I Got A Lot More Blurbs: Some established authors advise sticking to authors in your own genre. But I say, wherever possible, diversify! When my debut novel came out – The Thin Pink Line, a dark comedy about a woman who fakes an entire pregnancy – I knew that the uberpink...
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Apr.12.2013
The Moment I Felt Like A Cheese: My publisher had a pre-holiday cocktail party and dinner in New York, so I got the chance to wear my long red dress with the slit again, to which I added black satin shoes with rhinestone stiletto heels. I passed on the cocktails – they looked delicious but I...
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Apr.11.2013
The Moment I Got My First Blurb: My editor called to say that she’d received a blurb for The Thin Pink Line. She explained that everyone in the office was surprised to see a letter come in from Nelson DeMille – they couldn’t understand why he’d be writing to Red Dress Ink. “This is a very...
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Apr.10.2013
The Moment I Realized Looks Might Matter: My editor asked if I could send them a picture of me to possibly use for publicity purposes. My response ran something along the lines of, “So you want to make sure I’m not butt-ugly before you decide whether or not to put my picture on the cover?”...
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Apr.09.2013
The Moment I Was Asked To Change My Name: Having previously said she’d never ask me to change my name, my editor called and asked if I’d change my name. It wasn’t her idea, she explained, but rather, it was the Marketing department asking for it. “We’re envisioning a time when you’re a big...
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Apr.08.2013
The Moment I Negotiated My First Book Contract: It took about six weeks for the contract to go from Canada to Switzerland and finally to me in Danbury. During those six weeks, I devoured three books totally seven hundred pages on publishing contracts, taking copious notes all the while on...
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Apr.07.2013
The Moment I Thought About Getting An Agent After The Fact: Having received the offer of a two-book contract from Red Dress Ink for The Thin Pink Line and A Title To Be Named Later, a best-selling author in my acquaintance strongly recommended I get an agent to handle the deal. He recommended two...
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Apr.06.2013
The Moment I Sold A Book, The Sixth Of Seven Novels I’d Written In Nearly Eight Years: Against the implications of Agent 3’s tone, that I was wasting my time, I submitted The Thin Pink Line on my own to Red Dress Ink. Over the next several months, I would phone to check on my submission. The...
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Apr.05.2013
The Moment Agent 3 Told Me What He Thought Of The Thin Pink Line: He said he thought it was very funny but he wasn’t interested in representing it because there was “too much like it out there already.” Really? Sure, a lot of comedic fiction featuring women was out there, but were any of...
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Apr.04.2013
The Moment A Well-Known Publisher Launched A New Imprint: In November of 2001, I began to see reviews popping up in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times for books from a new line called Red Dress Ink, an imprint of Harlequin. The reviews weren’t always necessarily positive, but I was certain...
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Apr.03.2013
The Moment I Got My Third Agent: A friend had been at a conference where he met an agent he thought would be right for Vertigo, so he pitched it on my behalf. Agent 3 read it, called me on the phone, said he thought I should make a few changes to the book, but other than that, he saw it...
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Apr.02.2013
The Moment I Got The Idea For Book 7: It was October 2000 and I was down in Florida, visiting in-laws with my nine-month-old daughter. As was my habit no matter where in the world I was, I went for daily hour-long walks. One day, while walking, a voice began talking to me in my head: For...
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Apr.01.2013
The Moment I Realized Agent 2 Was Even Crazier Than Agent 1: If you’ll recall from our previous episode, Agent 2 had asked if I’d mind if she sold If You Should Die Before I Wake as a film before selling it as a book, since she’d received a fax from Viacom/Paramount seeking just such a...
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About Lauren
Before becoming a published novelist, I was an independent bookseller and buyer, a Publishers Weekly reviewer, a freelance editor, and a window washer. My first book was published in 2003 and by the end of 2012, I will have had 28 books published. My most...
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