Lara Zielin

Start spreading the news, people. I’m leaving November 2 to head to the Big Apple for the Backspace author-agent conference. That’s right! A whole day devoted to nothing but listening to and meeting agents in New York, all of whom will LOOVE my book and want to represent me. Right? Well, I’ll be happy if one of them signs me up. That will be one more than agent than I have right now.

Dan Lazar, who already has the first 50 pages of TD in-hand, will be there. As will Jennifer DeChiara to whom I sent a query (hard copy) but haven’t heard back. Jennifer’s lead time is 3 to 6 months to hear back on a query. Yikes! Six months? Please — in six months you can not only read a query, you can get to Mount Doom, throw the One Ring in some lava, and save Middle Earth. If you’re Frodo. If you’re me, you can rent the entire first and second seasons of Veronica Mars and watch them religiously.

Wish me luck! At the conference, that is, not watching VM.

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