"The Dos and Don’ts of Query Letters"
Got this from Carol Woods of the Greater Dallas Chapter.
Monday, 20 August 2007
7-8:30 p.m.
Speaker: Maya Reynolds, a writer with a checkered background
Topic: Query Letters
Richardson Public Library
900 Civic Center Dr.
Richardson TX, 75080
Basement Room
Maya Reynolds tells all in “The Dos and Don’ts of Query Letters. Things I Did Right and Things I Did Wrong on the Way To Getting An Agent and Contract.”
Maya lives in a small town in north Texas. Her days are divided between writing, working in her garden, and chatting on line. She shares her desk with a one-year-old kitten named Bob who guards the right side of her laptop, making the letters U-I-O-P a particular challenge. At varying times, Maya has been a teacher, a stockbroker, a psychiatric social worker, and a crisis team interventionist. (Editorial comment: Sounds like a perfect background for a writer.) While plying those many vocations or maybe because of them, she sold short stories to romance magazines as well as non-fiction articles in other markets. In 2002, she began to write full time and finished her first manuscript in 2003. Anticipating that any editor who read it would immediately put her under contract, she sent it to only one publisher-and was astounded when that editor passed on the project. Half a dozen more rejections later, she decided she needed a new strategy. She became a member of Romance Writers of America and Sisters in Crime-and continued to write. She joined a critique group and took on-line writing classes. By 2005, she began winning contests and getting requests for full manuscripts. In January, 2006, she signed with literary agent Jacky Sach. In August, 2006, Jacky sold Maya’s manuscript, You've Been a Bad Girl, to NAL Heat, a division of Penguin. Maya is one of the founders and the Membership Chair for Passionate Ink, the erotic romance chapter of RWA. She also writes a quarterly column on the publishing industry for the Passionate Inc newsletter. This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, 20 August 2007
7-8:30 p.m.
Speaker: Maya Reynolds, a writer with a checkered background
Topic: Query Letters
Richardson Public Library
900 Civic Center Dr.
Richardson TX, 75080
Basement Room
Maya Reynolds tells all in “The Dos and Don’ts of Query Letters. Things I Did Right and Things I Did Wrong on the Way To Getting An Agent and Contract.”
Maya lives in a small town in north Texas. Her days are divided between writing, working in her garden, and chatting on line. She shares her desk with a one-year-old kitten named Bob who guards the right side of her laptop, making the letters U-I-O-P a particular challenge. At varying times, Maya has been a teacher, a stockbroker, a psychiatric social worker, and a crisis team interventionist. (Editorial comment: Sounds like a perfect background for a writer.) While plying those many vocations or maybe because of them, she sold short stories to romance magazines as well as non-fiction articles in other markets. In 2002, she began to write full time and finished her first manuscript in 2003. Anticipating that any editor who read it would immediately put her under contract, she sent it to only one publisher-and was astounded when that editor passed on the project. Half a dozen more rejections later, she decided she needed a new strategy. She became a member of Romance Writers of America and Sisters in Crime-and continued to write. She joined a critique group and took on-line writing classes. By 2005, she began winning contests and getting requests for full manuscripts. In January, 2006, she signed with literary agent Jacky Sach. In August, 2006, Jacky sold Maya’s manuscript, You've Been a Bad Girl, to NAL Heat, a division of Penguin. Maya is one of the founders and the Membership Chair for Passionate Ink, the erotic romance chapter of RWA. She also writes a quarterly column on the publishing industry for the Passionate Inc newsletter. This event is free and open to the public.
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