I'm guessing that I'm one of your many RSS readers. I found your blog through Google Reader and found your query letter reviews over the holiday break to be a wonderful asset.
I write, and am constantly on the search to hone my craft, therefore, I go to those whom hold the keys. :) I read those who have found success, and try to learn from them. I find your blog very useful. So thank you.
I'm just a writer on a journey to a place of representation and publication. I'm honing my craft, dealing with rejection, finding acceptance and growing in endurance.
I get a lot out of your blog, and have been a fan for a while now. Thank you!
I choose number one, but there's lots of places to get publishing info. I read your blog because I like your voice and I like you - at least your cyber persona. ;)
Alice Pope gave a talk at the Writer's Digest Editor's Intensive a short time ago on the importance of blogging, and the value of twitter to an aspiring writer. After that talk, I was directed to your blog by one of the attendees.
I'm quite pleased that I took her advice. Blogs have given me insight into this industry, over what retreats and conferences have already provided.
Janet, thanks for your time. Your lessons and knowledge reach a lot of people.
I started coming here after following Query Shark for awhile. I don't write mysteries and you don't appear to represent comic urban fantasies or spec fiction, but your blog isn't heavily biased toward just one genre, so I find it interesting and helpful.
I also came here after reading Query Shark for a while. However, when I saw your post announcing that you liked my "Vile Pun" winner in the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton contest, I became a DEVOTEDreader.
I voted for #1 but wanted to add #2 as well. I also like reading your blog for the posts that aren't about the business even though that's what lured me here in the beginning.
I attended your master class at Surrey, and loved it (including my A+ - have I mentioned that before?). I'd read your blog a few times before then, but after that I became a devoted reader.
Miss Snark was the first writing blog I came across. After I went through her archives, I started looking for other blogs to read. This was one of those blogs. As much as I appreciate the information, I mainly read it because I like your writing.
Rants are some of my favorite entries, in that small souled so-glad-it-wasn't-me way. I also like the links to other blogs.
I am here because I have a blog (that is a memoir) that I think is hilarious. I want people to see it. I am a NYC retired teacher/stand-up comic. The blog with the memoir is: "marjorie-pentimentos." I also enjoy reading your entries. Yes, it's "time to move into the millennium"... that's why I am considering self-publishing my blog/memoir.
I am looking for information, sure, and am looking for representation. But that doesn't say yeah, but why HERE? Which is why I went with "none of these but still here."
The viewpoint here is edgy but amiable, and JR (IMO) doesn't post on uninteresting topics, and she doesn't mince words. I suspect, having found it for reason #1, now I'd come by anyhow.
I'm a writer who will have my urban fantasy finished and in submission by June. I started reading this blog after you posted an entry about having another book in the works while submitting the previous one (which I plan to do :))
I clicked looking for info about you and Find Print but thats only what brought me here in the first place. I keep coming back for information about Publishing.
I come to this blog because you're entertaining and a great resource for me. I'm another one of those author-type, seeking representation. I think you know the kind. :)
Well, I started reading as a writer looking for an agent, and now I have an agent, but old habits die hard.... so I still read you and Kristin and Nathan and Colleen and everybody. Because yer awesome.
I'm a writer and I found you when I began looking for an agent. After I realized you prefer mysteries to historical romance, it was too late. I was thoroughly addicted.
Poke me now, Pepper! I'm a new author, and my memoir will be published in March. Facebook usually comes in a close second to your blog when I'm in desperate need of a diversion. Thanks for the sparkle in an otherwise mundane day!
I'm an aspiring writer. I found you last summer when I began researching agents to query. Turns out, you don't represent my genre (darn it all!) but you DO represent all things agent-y. I've learned a great deal from you. So...thanks.
I am one of those who found this blog through Miss Snark withdrawal. I read it because it's informative, entertaining, and a good way to avoid actually writing. ;)
I feel I know you. I like the idea that my manuscript is only a click away from you.
When I publish this year (confidence is high), there will be a tribute to you on the 'Acknowledgements' page, because you are just so darned down-to-earth, like an old friend.
Been following your blog for a while now, I can't help myself. I write women's fiction leaning toward the humorous side, so I can't query you (darn it), but I have learned so much from hanging out here. Like the others have commented, you have a quirky fun voice, and I'm always drawn to that. It's how I write and it sucks me in. It's always interesting!
Voted for number one. I don't write in the genres you represent(or haven't yet), but I do like to read them. So your blog does double duty for me: I get insights from someone in the industry, and a heads up on books I might like to read.
I've been in publishing 25 years, the first 11 years as an in-house production editor and the last 14 as a freelance copyeditor. I will love the book biz (in whatever form it takes) for the rest of this life and on into my next several lives. ;-)
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I'm guessing that I'm one of your many RSS readers. I found your blog through Google Reader and found your query letter reviews over the holiday break to be a wonderful asset.
ReplyDeleteI write, and am constantly on the search to hone my craft, therefore, I go to those whom hold the keys. :)
ReplyDeleteI read those who have found success, and try to learn from them. I find your blog very useful.
So thank you.
Can't pick more than one? Fine. I wanted to mark #1 AND #2 but settled on #1. In case you were wildly curious or something.
ReplyDeletewhat? "I just like to stalk people" isn't an option?
ReplyDeleteI'm just a writer on a journey to a place of representation and publication. I'm honing my craft, dealing with rejection, finding acceptance and growing in endurance.
ReplyDeleteI get a lot out of your blog, and have been a fan for a while now. Thank you!
I'm e-pubbed and have enjoyed your blog for a long time. Who knows, maybe someday I'll write something you represent!
ReplyDeleteI choose number one, but there's lots of places to get publishing info. I read your blog because I like your voice and I like you - at least your cyber persona. ;)
ReplyDeleteI voted for the first one, but I'm really more of a writer following the publishing industry while I work my way toward query letters.
ReplyDeleteI read quite a few agent blogs, most of them for people I will never query because they don't represent my genre. I like the way they (and you) write.
I have you on my Google reader and could probably just read your blog that way, but end up clicking over here 90% of the time anyway.
ReplyDeleteMe?
Writer/queried Joanna with my last project/and I agree, she's amazing/ hope to query her with my next YA novel in a few weeks
Alice Pope gave a talk at the Writer's Digest Editor's Intensive a short time ago on the importance of blogging, and the value of twitter to an aspiring writer. After that talk, I was directed to your blog by one of the attendees.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite pleased that I took her advice. Blogs have given me insight into this industry, over what retreats and conferences have already provided.
Janet, thanks for your time. Your lessons and knowledge reach a lot of people.
How about "I'm a published writer sitting at my desk procrastinating by reading about the business."
ReplyDeleteOr 'you make me smile'?
ReplyDeleteI write middle grade and read your blog on JacketFlap.
ReplyDeleteI started coming here after following Query Shark for awhile. I don't write mysteries and you don't appear to represent comic urban fantasies or spec fiction, but your blog isn't heavily biased toward just one genre, so I find it interesting and helpful.
ReplyDeleteI also came here after reading Query Shark for a while. However, when I saw your post announcing that you liked my "Vile Pun" winner in the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton contest, I became a DEVOTEDreader.
ReplyDeleteIt's a mystery - a vile black tale of neuropathological abduction and pirating of a unctuous soul - as to why I'm here!
ReplyDelete(Actually, I was looking for another Miss Snark to play with)!
Haste yee back ;-)
I voted for #1 but wanted to add #2 as well. I also like reading your blog for the posts that aren't about the business even though that's what lured me here in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI attended your master class at Surrey, and loved it (including my A+ - have I mentioned that before?). I'd read your blog a few times before then, but after that I became a devoted reader.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Janet!
Ooooh! I like the procrastinating option.
ReplyDeleteMiss Snark was the first writing blog I came across. After I went through her archives, I started looking for other blogs to read. This was one of those blogs. As much as I appreciate the information, I mainly read it because I like your writing.
Rants are some of my favorite entries, in that small souled so-glad-it-wasn't-me way. I also like the links to other blogs.
You're the best substitute for Miss Snark I've found. :o)
ReplyDeleteI am here because I have a blog (that is a memoir) that I think is hilarious. I want people to see it. I am a NYC retired teacher/stand-up comic. The blog with the memoir is: "marjorie-pentimentos."
ReplyDeleteI also enjoy reading your entries. Yes, it's "time to move into the millennium"... that's why I am considering self-publishing my blog/memoir.
I am a writer, moderately clue-endowed (thanks to Miss Snark), and I mostly just find you enormously entertaining. (Both on the blog and at SiWC.)
ReplyDeleteI'm with Rachael: "I'm a published writer sitting at my desk procrastinating by reading about the business."
ReplyDeleteThanks.
JJ
I am looking for information, sure, and am looking for representation. But that doesn't say yeah, but why HERE? Which is why I went with "none of these but still here."
ReplyDeleteThe viewpoint here is edgy but amiable, and JR (IMO) doesn't post on uninteresting topics, and she doesn't mince words. I suspect, having found it for reason #1, now I'd come by anyhow.
And oh yeah, the NYC-ophilia helps!
I'm a writer who will have my urban fantasy finished and in submission by June. I started reading this blog after you posted an entry about having another book in the works while submitting the previous one (which I plan to do :))
ReplyDeleteJust a writer lost in the blogsphere! I follow the blog because it's interesting, a little bit quirky at times, fun, and full of useful information.
ReplyDeleteI voted No. 1, but I really keep coming back because like your writing voice, and your posts are always entertaining.
ReplyDeleteI also voted number one, but wish it could be number two. But alas, you don't represent SF&F. Even so, your posts are entertaining and informative.
ReplyDeleteI clicked looking for info about you and Find Print but thats only what brought me here in the first place. I keep coming back for information about Publishing.
ReplyDeleteI also have another reason for being here. (My meds just kicked in and I have this idea for a book).
ReplyDeleteTEACHING YOUR AGENT TO SIT AND FETCH - No choke collar required!
I figure, if it'll work on Miss Janet. It'll work on any agent from NY City to... well, Bee Sting, Arkansas!
Haste yee back ;-)
I come to this blog because you're entertaining and a great resource for me. I'm another one of those author-type, seeking representation. I think you know the kind. :)
ReplyDeleteI am a YA author looking for all different perspectives in the writing market.
ReplyDeleteManiacScribbler =^..^=
Well, I started reading as a writer looking for an agent, and now I have an agent, but old habits die hard.... so I still read you and Kristin and Nathan and Colleen and everybody. Because yer awesome.
ReplyDeleteI'm a writer and I found you when I began looking for an agent. After I realized you prefer mysteries to historical romance, it was too late. I was thoroughly addicted.
ReplyDeleteAnother procrastinating writer. Hmm. Maybe we should start poking each other with sharp sticks so we can get some work done?
ReplyDeletePoke me now, Pepper! I'm a new author, and my memoir will be published in March. Facebook usually comes in a close second to your blog when I'm in desperate need of a diversion. Thanks for the sparkle in an otherwise mundane day!
ReplyDeleteNice to know I'm in the majority.
ReplyDeleteBesides being helpful, your blog is also entertaining.
I'm an aspiring writer. I found you last summer when I began researching agents to query. Turns out, you don't represent my genre (darn it all!) but you DO represent all things agent-y. I've learned a great deal from you. So...thanks.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those who found this blog through Miss Snark withdrawal. I read it because it's informative, entertaining, and a good way to avoid actually writing. ;)
ReplyDeleteWriters do not procrastinate -- it's called 'letting the ideas percolate at the back of one's mind'.
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself that.
I feel I know you. I like the idea that my manuscript is only a click away from you.
ReplyDeleteWhen I publish this year (confidence is high), there will be a tribute to you on the 'Acknowledgements' page, because you are just so darned down-to-earth, like an old friend.
Like a lot of the other folks, I'm a writer what loves your voice, as well as finding the info you dispense very useful.
ReplyDeleteBeen following your blog for a while now, I can't help myself. I write women's fiction leaning toward the humorous side, so I can't query you (darn it), but I have learned so much from hanging out here. Like the others have commented, you have a quirky fun voice, and I'm always drawn to that. It's how I write and it sucks me in. It's always interesting!
ReplyDeleteAlight, so here's the thing:
ReplyDeleteI'm a writer, and I started reading here for the information about publishing.
HOWEVER, now I'm here just because it's bloody entertaining.
Thanks, Janet.
Voted for number one. I don't write in the genres you represent(or haven't yet), but I do like to read them. So your blog does double duty for me: I get insights from someone in the industry, and a heads up on books I might like to read.
ReplyDeleteWin-win!
I've been in publishing 25 years, the first 11 years as an in-house production editor and the last 14 as a freelance copyeditor. I will love the book biz (in whatever form it takes) for the rest of this life and on into my next several lives. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why I love this blog . . .
ReplyDelete"Remind me to never ever try to be nice to anyone ever again."
A quote out of one of your more recent post.