Sister Night Sister Moon Release Information

Sisyphus is officially looking for brand new rocks.

Agent B was Shana Cohen of Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She kept my partial for a while. Here’s what she had to say.

“…your (manuscript) had been set aside after an initial favorable reading. Unfortunately, despite the strength of your work, I’m afraid I didn’t respond strongly enough to be able to offer you representation.”

Again, we’re number 2!! We’re number 2!!! I do like the despite the strength of my work line.

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BUT in super positive news, Drollerie Press updated their schedule.

Sister Night/Sister Moon, Catherine Schaff-Stump
E-book review copies July 5th
E-Book release August 5th

After Wiscon planning, I’ll start figuring out who to send review copies to in July, and so forth. Anybody who has any ideas of good reviewers, feel free. Drollerie has a resource list that helps us out, but I’ll take any good suggestions.

By the way, it’s a steamy tale of a man, three muses, and betrayal. Yup, very YA. So, if you’re a romance or fantasy reader, it might be good for you.

And if you want a copy, and are willing to say things about it somewhere…

Right. Duty calls. I have 14 portfolios with an earnest need to be checked, grades to configure, and then I have to start on the Portus YA Author Reading Series.

I haven’t talked about this yet? I’m such a tease, I know. This will get its own entry VERY soon.

Catherine

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.

Prospect Agency

It’s been a grim week at Chez Stump for a variety of reasons. At least the snow is melting into dirty masses, which at night, can become all sorts of gremlins if you let them.

I needed to do something for myself today. After today’s weigh in, I discovered that that can’t be eating anymore (oh dear! Like I said, grim…), so I decided to get started on next week’s submissions.

Well, just the one.

When I was investigating agents to send to back in November, the Prospect Agency captured my attention. I love the look and feel of their website. It’s a gorgeous aesthetic. For me, it’s like being back at Iowa State, gazing misty-eyed at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall. The English offices used to be there, you see, and I spent a lot of time in its environs happily, getting educated about great books.

I loved my time at Iowa State. I had the best friends of my life there, including the man I married. I spent time being creative, getting a great liberal arts education (even though it was a state school, yes.) Sometimes I miss that time of my life keenly.

I get the same feel from the Prospect Agency. They seem a friendly bunch, and they seem to love books. One of them graduated from Carleton, as many of my good Minnesota friends have. Another is a Grinnell graduate, a stone’s throw from my home, and that’s a great liberal arts college. I like the sound of them, their philosophies, and just the general vibe. They sound like people I’d want to know in my professorial persona. Interesting people who read interesting books. English majors. Yeah. The English major vibe. God bless liberal arts!

Win, lose, or draw for me, I wanted you to see their site, because I appreciated it a lot. I would love to fit there. It would be like being back in college in some ways. Sure, I’m imagining and romanticizing, but I’m an author. If I can’t, who can?

Okay. Enough romance. Writing is a business, right? Not some vine covered brick buildings, where professors dressed in tweed and sweaters can slouch over laptops with a bunch of lattes in reach. But one can certainly dream…

Catherine

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.