The offer from Simon & Schuster was not what I was expecting – because the offer wasn’t for the book that I had written about in my proposal. Jane called me (that would be Jane Dystel, my stellar literary agent, in case you haven’t seen the other posts in this series) and she went over the details before I spoke with the editor, Lisa Considine. [...]
From the outset, my query letter met with some amount of success. I’ll take some credit for having written a solid query, but it was also the right topic at the right time. The popularity of tattoos was soaring, many of the books that had been published about tattoos were older, and the tattoo book glut had yet to begin in earnest. [...]
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