By Judy Clement Wall It’s been a while since I’ve posted about my novel, BEAUTIFUL LIVES. That’s because I haven’t been querying agents, and therefore haven’t had anything new to report. But since the reasons I haven’t been querying are very tangled and logical and neurotic and interesting, I thought I would share them… First,…

by Judy Clement Wall 1. I’ve been thinking about (researching, dreaming of, obsessing over, attempting) publication more these days. It’s not an entirely new process for me. My work has been published in literary journals and anthologies, and on some really cool websites (like this one), but ever since finishing my novel in May, my…

Previously on j’s Journey… I have a theory. We attract people. All of us. All the time. We talk and tweet and blog and write, and we attract people. Best to attract people to the real me – not the neurotic, half-crazed me who worries about whether an agent will turn me down because I…

By Judy Clement Wall I did it. I sent my first query letter to an agent. It was an email, actually, constructed according to guidelines – a description of my book, a bio, the first five pages of my manuscript embedded (no attachments). It was as easy as hitting “send.” Which of course wasn’t really…