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blatherings – J.E.S. Hays http://www.jeshays.com Author, Worldbuilder, Wordsmith Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:55:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 http://www.jeshays.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-sitelogo-32x32.gif blatherings – J.E.S. Hays http://www.jeshays.com 32 32 Blathering: A Nibble http://www.jeshays.com/?p=839 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:55:03 +0000 http://www.jeshays.com/?p=839

So at the Tony Hillman Conference, they had a session where you could put your name into the hat for a reading of your first page in front of two best-selling authors and an agent.

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I got lucky (gulp!) and my number was drawn, so I read my page, voice shaking with fear.

And they all loved it! I was so stoked, especially when I approached the agent after the session, and she said to send her the first 50 pages.

Just got an email from that agent this week, too. She wants to see the entire manuscript once she gets back from her holidays!

Wish me luck, guys!

]]> Blathering: Halloween and Fall http://www.jeshays.com/?p=798 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:24:25 +0000 http://www.jeshays.com/?p=798

This is my favorite time of the year! I love the weather – not too hot, not too cold – and I love that feeling in the air, the one that makes the wild geese take to the skies in search of new landings. The world is gearing down for the long sleep of winter, tucking itself in with blankets of fallen leaves.

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I love the colors of Fall: reds and oranges and yellows and rich browns. If you see me in person, I’m likely to be wearing some variation of those colors at any given moment.

I love dressing up at Halloween parties, too. Like writing, costumes are a way to get out of “the real world” and play around in an imaginary one for awhile. Go as your favorite literary character, or just be as spooky as you want to.

Halloween is a rip-roaring farewell party for summer, and a welcome back party for Fall. Hot cider and pumpkin pie, leaf piles and trees lacing the bright blue sky with bare branches …

What’s your favorite Fall memory – or your favorite Halloween character?

]]> Blathering: Rejections http://www.jeshays.com/?p=771 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:28:13 +0000 http://www.jeshays.com/?p=771

Just learned that the (small) publishing house I’ve had the anthology with is not picking up the rights for another year, due to poor sales.

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That smarts, I’ll admit. Even though I was secretly looking forward to the day I could cancel our contract and regain the rights to sell the book, I was thinking I’d be the one doing the canceling. This feels more like rejection.

On the plus side, this publisher is quite small, so they don’t have a good publicity budget (read: none!) and didn’t push the book like a bigger company was. Now, I can try to shop the thing around along with my novel, as in “If you like this, I’ve got an anthology with the same characters that I can regain the rights to….”

So … overall, probably a good thing, even though it’s going to mean the book won’t be in print after April, 2015 unless I can find a new publisher.

Any of you experience anything similar to this? How’d you handle it?

 

 

 

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