{"id":668,"date":"2009-10-02T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-10-02T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:12:00","slug":"finding-literary-agents-for-paranormal-romance-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/finding-literary-agents-for-paranormal-romance-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding literary agents for paranormal romance, and other things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m struggling to keep in edit mode right now with Arcadian<\/span>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing a bit of spit-and-polish on the parts I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve changed and extended or added in this draft, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m beginning to get lazy, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking a quick break to write a post and tell you what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been up to.<\/p>\n

In writing, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve obviously been spending too much time on Arcadian<\/span>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five weeks now since I began this draft and I have recognised that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to get lazy and that usually signals that I need to do something else and regroup or I just won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a good enough job. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve planned out everything that is left to do on this draft and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s around 2 weeks work minimum. If I go with a complete read through again, it could be a lot longer. I think I just need to do the changed or added stuff for now and save the complete read through for when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rested for a while.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to Japan again for 3 weeks in November, which means I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t participate in NaNoWriMo again this year either. I participated a few years back and it was a lot of fun, and I wrote the first draft of Cabin Fever<\/span> for it. I would like to do it again sometime. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n

My Japan trip is going to hopefully provide me some time to read through Arcadian <\/span>in paperback form again to find errors and fix it up for the final polish. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably go to the effort of taking it with me, and then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll end up just watching movies on the flights instead! You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think that with 12 hours on a plane, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be up for reading, but quite often they have good movies. I have a few long train journeys while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in Japan with the husband, so maybe I could squeeze in some time for editing then too. Again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably just stare out of the window instead. Hehe. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a holiday after all.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been searching for literary agents that deal with paranormal romance over the past year, on and off, and I have to admit that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rather difficult to find them in the UK. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really list paranormal romance as an interest over here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult enough to find ones that want romance. I have found some good ones in New York who accept emails, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be trying those as well as UK ones that I manage to dig up from somewhere. Unfortunately, Arcadian is longer than the maximum word count that a lot of publishing houses accept for a submission. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as though I can cut it down either. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 155,000 words because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the length it needs to be as it has a lot of plot and characters. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m being long-winded in any of it. All of the readers who received the second draft (six of them) have come back saying the pace was great, the plot was great, and they even wanted stuff added to it! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a few publishing houses on my list who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you a limit so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll send it to them and then agents too.<\/p>\n

I started going to archery classes again on Sunday. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a ten week course and I really enjoyed the last one that I did, so I thought I would give it a go again and see if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m serious enough to try for a club and do it every week, with my own equipment. I think I would like to. It is a lot of fun and, being very logic-minded, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite good at it.<\/p>\n

Well, I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s everything that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been up to. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve managed to fritter away the hour journey into work on the train this morning writing blog posts and even my time before work in the office. I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite an impressive bit of procrastination, although I could just say that it was necessary work, and I did need a break from Arcadian<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll spend probably spend lunch with work colleagues rather than continuing my editing work, and then on the train home, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably watch anime.<\/p>\n

(note: I did spend lunch with some work colleagues, but it was a damn nice Oreo milkshake and chips!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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