It will be tomorrow, or more likely Wednesday, when the agents come back to their offices and face the pile of queries. I've seen to it that a few of mine are there, ready to go.
Until then, I could make a resolution or two, but what to resolve? Resolve to get an agent this year? Now there's a complete nonsense. I've been trying for too many years and I know how unrealistic it would be. What I can resolve to do is to keep improving. Year after year, I learn something new, spend some time studying what little is out there to give a writer a clue. So for 2007, I resolve to keep going. To keep learning, to keep mailing queries, to keep writing.
To that end, I resolve to read. Whatever is out there, no matter how nasty, I will try to read what is being published so that I learn what agents are looking for. Every book I pick up will be dissected and examined, to determine structure and pacing. Where does the back story go, what sort of opening is a hook to get an agent to read the next page and then the next chapter?
For 2007, I resolve not to go away.
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