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Published on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Michael Stevens
October 25, 2007
I’m just about through dealing with the edits Kimberley has suggested. Most of them are easy to handle. It is tedious plowing through the manuscript page by page to change a “he” to a “the” or “peace” to “piece” – I am amazed at how many of these changes there are – but they’re not challenging. I use a blue highlighter to ...
Published on Friday, March 12, 2010 by Michael Stevens
September 24, 2007
The Buckeye Roadhouse is located just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. It has been around a long time – who would name a restaurant “The Buckeye” today? - but the menu has evolved under the influence of its sophisticated Marin County customers, the ex-hippies who grew up to become therapists and contractors. We are shown to a table upstairs...
Published on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Michael Stevens
September 24, 2007
Fog blows across the winding road as I climb the hill to Kimberley’s house, which is located in a town called Tiburon, once a sort of hippie enclave and now a bedroom community for wealthy individuals. I park at the top of the hill, then navigate the steps on the side of her home down to the separate structure that is the office of Reece-Halsey...
Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Michael Stevens
Sep 6, 2007
Dear Kimberley,
Fortuna is ready for you. (Can't believe it's been six months since we met at SFWC!)
Exactly what would you like to see -- first 50 pages plus synopsis?
Regards,
Mike
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Dear Mike,
Yes, that sounds like a good start.
Please email it to me...
Thanks,
Kimberley
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Published on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Michael Stevens
I have had a fling with Another Agent. This is how it happened. At the San Francisco Writers’ Conference there’s something called “speed dating.” For an additional fifty dollars, you get to have a series of 3-minute meetings with as many agents as you can do in an hour. The agents are located behind tables positioned against the walls of a relatively large bal...
Published on Friday, February 26, 2010 by Michael Stevens
February 16, 2007, The San Francisco Writers’ Conference
There will be two opportunities to meet agents face to face at the conference, the Friday night cocktail party and the “speed dating” sessions on Sunday, where you get three minutes in front of an agent under less-than-ideal conditions. So here I am, at the cocktail party, Chardonnay in hand (a Marketin...
Published on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Michael Stevens
February 16, 2007, The San Francisco Writers’ Conference
My elevator story needs work.
For readers who are unfamiliar with the term, imagine you are the CEO of a small, Silicon Valley start-up company in 1997. You’re at a conference in Boston, it’s early evening and you’re headed down to the lobby where you will meet your chief engineer and marketing VP ...
Published on Monday, February 22, 2010 by Michael Stevens
This blog is about getting published. It’s not a set of instructions about how to get published. It’s the story of how one person actually did get published. Me. And like my novel, Fortuna (OceanView Publishing, May 2010), I’m going to start in the middle of the story, and I’m going to focus on marketing.
February 16, 2007, The San Francisco Writers’ Con...
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