So begins the search ...
I purchased the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2010 today (to discover it is exactly the same as the 2009 edition I already own) and have seived through the list of literary agents. It's tres depressing when an agent doesn't consider unsolicitated manuscripts - so you're expected to have someone represent you to the person you hope will come to represent you?
But the longer I put it off, the less likely I am ever to send my work off. There's no point dwelling on how improbable it is. I knew it was improbable when I began writing the damn novel a year ago; the circumstances haven't changed.
In the meantime, I shall continue with this screenplay. It's taking shape.
I also need to find out whether MNFF are going to publish A Porcelain Doll because if they aren't, there's a good number of anthologies I could send that to. It's a bloody decent story. I was dead proud of it. The Molly Malone story isn't quite as good. And I haven't had any new short story ideas since then -- prompts, anyone? Perhaps I should take one of the River Song prompts and try to write some original fiction, haha!
Anyhoo... got to poo pick in the rain. Pity me!
But the longer I put it off, the less likely I am ever to send my work off. There's no point dwelling on how improbable it is. I knew it was improbable when I began writing the damn novel a year ago; the circumstances haven't changed.
In the meantime, I shall continue with this screenplay. It's taking shape.
I also need to find out whether MNFF are going to publish A Porcelain Doll because if they aren't, there's a good number of anthologies I could send that to. It's a bloody decent story. I was dead proud of it. The Molly Malone story isn't quite as good. And I haven't had any new short story ideas since then -- prompts, anyone? Perhaps I should take one of the River Song prompts and try to write some original fiction, haha!
Anyhoo... got to poo pick in the rain. Pity me!