Vampires Return! Beware, she is coming!

Jack_Roberts · Oct 30, 2006

Another agent replied to my query that she "absolutely loved the idea"! She wants the full before the weekend!
So needless to say, I’m psyched!
Will this be it? No clue. I’m a little wiser on that front cause I realize they could still say no, but I am still excited. My foot is once again in the door, this time up to my knee!
And it happened the day before Halloween. Ironic, huh?
* Looks outside towards the still, dark night. *
She’s not real, is she?

piscesgirl80 · Oct 31, 2006

Jack_Roberts said:
And it happened the day before Halloween. Ironic, huh?

A good omen (pun intended)!

Good luck!

Jack_Roberts · Oct 31, 2006

Thanks guys!

Haggis · Oct 31, 2006

Break a leg, Scott.

K1P1 · Oct 31, 2006

OOOoooOOOoooOOO! That's great!

Melina · Oct 31, 2006

Cool! Let us know how it goes!

CaroGirl · Oct 31, 2006

Eek! How exciting. I will cross my fingers for you (except when I'm typing, of course). Good luck.

sammyig · Oct 31, 2006

I'll definately keep my fingers crossed for you!

Jack_Roberts · Oct 31, 2006

Thanks guys!

Sury · Oct 31, 2006

Great news, Scott. You have to let us know how it goes.

GOOD LUCK!

Sury

David McAfee · Nov 1, 2006

Sweet! Congrats.

aruna · Nov 1, 2006

eeeeeeeek.......

That certainly is an omen. I've got my stuff crossed, so GOOD LUCK.
Looks like you're getting a weekend read. But I shouldn't be saying that, should I!

Jack_Roberts · Nov 1, 2006

What? She needed it "by the weekend, ASAP".
Weekend read? You know about this stuff, don't you?

Is that a good thing?
She seemed very excited to get it.

Oh man, if my muse Annabelle could grab and keep a pro agent like she did all the betas...

SLAP

Calm down, Scott. Listen to Sting, relax. Get back to work.
Dreams take time.
Breathe.

aruna · Nov 1, 2006

Jack I don't want to get you spilling coffee or anything or wrecking the car or anything. But everyone knows what a weekend read means. Just CALM DOWN.

And don;t get too wiorked up by Monday. Even if it IS a weekend read, she might not finish it over the weekend. Agents DO have lives, yanno.

Read the latest entry on Rachel Vater's blog and you'll see. VERY enlightening.

aruna · Nov 1, 2006

here's the link.
http://raleva31.livejournal.com/

Pisarz · Nov 1, 2006

That's a FABULOUS response to garner. Best of luck!

Jack_Roberts · Nov 1, 2006

Wow. So a weekend read is good? Sorry, my muse has me working so fast at all this, I forget how little I know. Does it mean the agent really liked the query enough to make it a priority?
But when others read it to edit it, they got sucked in and forgot they were editing it. What would happen if she's reading it to fit her tight schedule?
Btw, thanks for that article, aruna. I never realized just what they do. Sheesh. I'm going to have my wife read that.

But if she's reading fast (and who can blame her with a schedule like that?), she'll jump into the 5pg hook first chapter, then she drives through the mystery and intro chapters, then hits the grabbing stuff where everything changes, the part that hooked the betas the most, and... at that speed...
Thats like running onto an ice patch! She'll hit that conclusion like a cliff overhang!

Would that mean? Could it mean?

SLAP SLAP

Back to 8-5 drafting job, Scott. Don't live for that (yeah, right. Sure.) and focus.

GAH!

sammyig · Nov 1, 2006

I think you need to come up with a few things to distract yourself. Try to stop fretting! I imagine I would be doing the same thing in your shoes, but do try.

Jack_Roberts · Nov 1, 2006

Heh. Thanks sammyig. Yeah, I've got a website of crazy fan-fan fiction (stories about poster-name characters) site I write for. I'll write some stuff for them.
That is if the vampire Annabelle doesn't bang on my head again, shouting for more book 2.

sammyig · Nov 1, 2006

Maybe you can give her a Harry Potter style Blood Pop to keep her busy for awhile.

David McAfee · Nov 1, 2006

That really is incredible news. How many agents did you query, anyway?

DeborahM · Nov 1, 2006

Scott, go ahead and enjoy the high! They don't come that often.

Way to go and keep Annabella busy! :snoopy:

Jack_Roberts · Nov 1, 2006

sammyig said:
Maybe you can give her a Harry Potter style Blood Pop to keep her busy for awhile.

I don't remember any blood popsickles in the Potter books?

Naw, she's happy enough to wait... for a bit.

You'd think after 300 yrs she would have more patients but sometimes she's still a child.

Jack_Roberts · Nov 1, 2006

David McAfee said:
That really is incredible news. How many agents did you query, anyway?

Counting the first set that resulted in Jessica's partial, the set right after her rejection letter, then the set a week later after those, I'd say 37.

Yes, 37 quarries. One was to a small time publisher but I really don't want to go through them.

sammyig · Nov 1, 2006

They are blood lollipops and were mentioned in passing in the 3rd book I think when Harry gets to go to the candy store in Hogsmeade. If I remember right, Ron said "Yuk!" when they spied them on the shelf.

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