Finally Breaking Ground
Last year, I wrote how I was finally finding my way in romcom. At the time my camping YA was doing pretty good out in the query trenches. I'd spoken to an agent who was new-ish, as she wasn't so much new to the industry but new to taking on her own clients. I was one of the first queries sent to her the day she opened. She read the book in a matter of days and we were on a phone call and I was doing an R&R, a simple one really, and then another call and then... she left that agency, went to another, and her content request was absolutely opposite of what I was writing. Wa-wa-waaaaaa. Oh the suckville!! I started to do the doubts. All the doubts. But, I also started to see that adult romcoms were fairing way better than YA. A lot of agents were complaining about low teen book sales. I told my writer friends that though it was tempting to want to write to the niche that was booming, I wouldn't fake it. Unless an idea came to me that was that crack in the sky. The next d...