Wednesday 4 March 2009

Progress

Well I've agreed both the cover and the printing blocks for my book of poems. Should be receiving the galley proof in the near future.
On the agent front, no success. As usual, despite my wishes otherwise, my book was only scanned. They cannot seem to understand that scanning and reading bring forth entirely different reactions. There is so much hidden in my book that they just do not see when they scan. Still I asked the question 'Which parts didn,t you like and why?' As I suspected, ask an awkward question and there will ne no answer forthcoming. How am I expected to take my work and get it to the point where professionals will like it if they will not tell me what it is they don't like?

Still, that's all for today.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The agents don't really read the books. They pass it off to someone who reads it and summarizes it for them...Which sort of defeats the purpose of the agent who is supposed to be going to bat for you.