First Book Friday: Lisa Shearin

[jimhines]

Welcome to First Book Friday, an ongoing series exploring how various authors sold their first books.

Today’s story comes from bestselling author Lisa Shearin (whose latest book Bewitched & Betrayed had a cameo in the new music video from The Guild - and yes, I’m jealous!)  Lisa talks about the excitement of getting The Call … both Calls, actually

Comments

[sandy_williams]

I love First Book Fridays!

"The frustrating part of getting The Call at the office was that while my co-workers congratulated me, they had no clue how freaking HUGE and MAMMOTH and HUMONGOUS this moment was for me."

Isn't that the truth? People congratulated me when I got my agent but they didn't realize it was a BIG DEAL and came only after years of hard work. And they had a hard time understanding I still wasn't guaranteed to get published.

Great story, Lisa! Glad your husband and puppies were around to congratulate you the second time. :-)

[jimhines]

Glad you're enjoying them! I've got two more authors' stories scheduled to go live, and several others I'm waiting to hear back from.

I was at work in the English Dept. at Eastern Michigan University when I got the call about winning Writers of the Future. I still did the bouncy-dance of joy, but it's not just the same when people don't *get* it.

[lisa_shearin]

Thank you, Sandy!

Lisa

[catephoenix]

I love reading how people finally broke through. Thanks, Jim.

[ladysaotome]

That's a great story. Thanks for sharing!

[lisa_shearin]

Thank you, everyone!

Lisa