Lightning Strikes (Twice)
Friday, June 22 : 11:25 PM : 0 comments :
I'm going to try not to jinx myself here but it looks like I have another book to write. I've been working on a new book proposal for the last few weeks (maybe months) and it's been a lot of back and forth but this week, we accepted a final offer from the publisher. I'm deathly excited and I feel like a real writer now. One book could be a stroke of blind luck -- which, in my case, it most likely was. Two books? I must be doing something okay, right?Aside from feeling like the luckiest guy alive and having a literary agency that's turned two (thin) proposals into two book deals, I feel like this whole writing thing could work out for me. In fact, Full Circle Literary is so good at their job that they got me a two book deal. Yeah, two. So if things go well, I'll be writing two books for this publisher.
What's this book about? It's a fiction book for teen girls. You heard correctly. That's right, I'll be leveraging my years of being an effeminate guy into writing a book for girls. I have to thank George here for opening my eyes to the addiction that is Babysitter's Club, Little House on the Prairie, Sweet Valley High, Anne of Green Gables, etc. It turns out I'm a chick-lit writer at heart.
I'm excited for this amazing opportunity because now I can have some literary (street) cred. Writing a non-fiction reference book was amazing but being able to branch out into fiction should make me that much more well-rounded. And, as I'm finding out, it's much easier to write fiction because it's all from your imagination. Your characters can do whatever you want them to do, the story is any story you wish to put to paper. It makes the writing more exciting and more personal.If possible, I'll be name dropping friends and their unique personality/habit quirks (as inspiration of course) into the book. Should be fun. So if you didn't read the blogging book, you better read this one!
We haven't quite signed the contract yet so the whole thing's not exactly signed, sealed, and delivered but from what I'm told, the contract is on its way to passing go and we're collecting $200.
Thank you Stefanie and Lilly, thank you!
