STATUS: Tomorrow I have an auction happening and late on last Friday, I got a first offer for a different submission I currently have out. Deals are in the fall, crisp air!
What’s playing on the iPod right now? CHURCH OF THE POISON MIND by Culture Club
What about all those publishing parties, say you? Surely that’s yet another advantage to being an agent located in
Snort.
Do you know what agents, editors, and other industry folks do at launch parties and other publishing events? They have fun. They drink. They eat and generally talk about all sorts of things that have nothing to do with publishing.
And there are all kinds of other secrets I could share about what goes down at those parties and who might have partied too much but alas, to paraphrase a line from ALMOST FAMOUS again, there are some things that’s good for a few people to know rather than millions. This would be one of them.
(And I know I don’t have a million-person readership. I just wanted to use the line!)
mmmmm there’s a little word there that kinda gives it all away…
down = and two spellings to a word starting with m. one of them is morale.
😉
Actually, I suspect that if you were to post an indiscreet piece of gossip, millions would find out about it pretty quickly. Gossip flies fast on the net.
And you have more readers than you think, I bet.
Ahhh…Culture Club. We must be the same age. Did you see they’re recording a new album and going on tour, without Boy George? Trust me, I have a life. It was a Yahoo headline for two or three days.
Don’t underestimate blogging, Kristin. December’s right on target.
I just wanted to say I enjoy reading your blog. It’s nice to see the agent insider view 🙂
all right already, we get it… you don’t have to be in NYC to be a friggin’ agent!
My agent spent my launch party asking my boyfriend why he didn’t get on the ball and snap me up. She’s such a great salesman. He proposed the next day. 😉
I think it’s safe to say that at most industry parties, regardless of the industry, fun happens rather than business. Besides, I usually learn more about what’s happening within my organization at a party that I ever would during the course of a work day.
Verif: tarzspt
Tar spit? hahahaha!