Although I am not a political fan, I do something that Ronald Reagan used to do. When he ran for election, he “ran scared.” It was his way of saying that he wasn’t going to lose because he was overconfident. When I write, I put my finger on the panic button, and I don’t let up until I’m done. That’s not my way of saying anything. It’s also not advice. That’s just the way I write. [...]
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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. [...] After signing a contract with literary agent Jane Dystel, my first task was to rewrite my non-fiction book proposal for her. I received in the mail an example of what she was looking for and also some specific changes in the proposal that I had originally sent to her. It was a pretty extensive rewrite. [...] |
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