GOSH. LUCKY.
STATUS: Throwing stones. Because I don’t live in a glass house. I live in a cabin. Down by the river. Lake. I mean lake.
I just read Ally Carter’s totally awesome blog where she waxes sentimental about how great her publisher, Hyperion, is and that made me think about how great I have it, too. I mean, seriously. Although I don’t know much about Putnam because I haven’t really worked with them yet (we still haven’t started editing DONUT DAYS), I have worked with my agent and I gotta say, she’s the cat’s meee-ow. Really.
So, not only did she read the first (really bad) version of DD and give me just the right feedback so I could make it what it needed to be, but she didn’t judge me for not getting it right the first time. PLUS, when I got married to Rob, she and the owner of LJK Literary, Larry Kirshbaum, picked up the tab for a really schwanky dinner at this place called the Collectors Café. And I’m talking a nice dinner, peeps. There was yummy champagne waiting at the table for us when we sat down, and there was all this cute little glittery stuff everywhere saying “congratulations.” Who does that? Really, who?
Plus, Susanna talks me off my many ledges, which, I’m just being honest, I go there sometimes. I get over-anxious, nervous, worried, scared, impatient (mostly that last one) and I freak out about stuff. Like when the book is coming out and will Putnam like my next book and when would that one come out and should I make a website and if I make a website does she want to see it and … blah, blah, blah.
It’s a wonder she puts up with me. Seriously. I am so, so lucky. Plus? You know what’s totally great? I like my agent. Genuinely. She’s smart, she has good things to say, she’s kind, she’s quirky but in a really good way (where she’s super level-headed, too) and she seems to really get my writing. Sometimes she seems to get it more than I do.
I honestly don’t know how I ended up in this place with the very best agent (and agency) ever. But you’d better believe that a.) I know how lucky I am and b.) I am thankful for it every single day.
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