Wow! Congratulations Deepa! It brings me joy to see your smile as you clink your champagne glasses! What an inspiration you are to keep finding your way back to the querying table, despite the hurdles! I can't wait to read your book.
I'm a new member here (also living in NL!) and I'm starting to claim my identity as a writer. I've been in the process of writing my first non-fiction book..sloooowwllyy. I've taken a course on writing Book Proposals but am still not sure about the publishing/self-publishing route.
Question: Looking back now, what if anything would you do differently? Specifically, would you still go the traditional publishing route first?
Deepa! First HUGE congrats on everything in this. I'm so stoked for you on multiple levels:
- 1 because we met all those years ago when I worked at IG and was astounded by your brilliant website and sparkling copy, and
- 2 Because I'm stoked you are on Substack, and sharing your publishing journey here—where there are amazing book authors but not many like you sharing the depths you go to to get an agent!
- 3 because I'm a fellow writer and novelist, and my querying spreadsheet for my second novel looks ALARMINGLY similar to yours (down to the same columns, red filler paint for rejects and more!!) and so reading the ins and outs of your journey to being agented is like watching the one that escaped escaping and running free and cheering them on for everyone!!!
So excited to subscribe and find out more. Congrats again!!!
Went thru this with my mom some years back, when she was trying to sell a book she wrote. Drained the life out of both of us. She's still writing and this gives me hope :)
Ah! Congratulations!!! I read your work through Courtney maum’s newsletter and knew it was special. Thrilled for you, and feeling optimistic that my similarly painful journey will have a joyful ending.
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely amazing news!!! So many congratulations. Your hard work and extreme perseverance and resilience has paid off and is inspirational to all of us writers flogging away at the coal-face
Thanks for sharing, and congrats!! Also Malaya? My fave too!!
Wow! Congratulations Deepa! It brings me joy to see your smile as you clink your champagne glasses! What an inspiration you are to keep finding your way back to the querying table, despite the hurdles! I can't wait to read your book.
I'm a new member here (also living in NL!) and I'm starting to claim my identity as a writer. I've been in the process of writing my first non-fiction book..sloooowwllyy. I've taken a course on writing Book Proposals but am still not sure about the publishing/self-publishing route.
Question: Looking back now, what if anything would you do differently? Specifically, would you still go the traditional publishing route first?
Proost!
Deepa! First HUGE congrats on everything in this. I'm so stoked for you on multiple levels:
- 1 because we met all those years ago when I worked at IG and was astounded by your brilliant website and sparkling copy, and
- 2 Because I'm stoked you are on Substack, and sharing your publishing journey here—where there are amazing book authors but not many like you sharing the depths you go to to get an agent!
- 3 because I'm a fellow writer and novelist, and my querying spreadsheet for my second novel looks ALARMINGLY similar to yours (down to the same columns, red filler paint for rejects and more!!) and so reading the ins and outs of your journey to being agented is like watching the one that escaped escaping and running free and cheering them on for everyone!!!
So excited to subscribe and find out more. Congrats again!!!
WOOT WOOT
Went thru this with my mom some years back, when she was trying to sell a book she wrote. Drained the life out of both of us. She's still writing and this gives me hope :)
Ah! Congratulations!!! I read your work through Courtney maum’s newsletter and knew it was special. Thrilled for you, and feeling optimistic that my similarly painful journey will have a joyful ending.
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Wow, I had no idea of the behind the scenes. Congratulations!!
Feeling very differently about the book in my bag that I am reading today. And cannot wait for your book to be my book in my bag, my current read.
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely amazing news!!! So many congratulations. Your hard work and extreme perseverance and resilience has paid off and is inspirational to all of us writers flogging away at the coal-face