I read this on Twitter a couple of days ago and I really like it. It’s so simple, and yet it answers so many questions.
Publishers want something completely new, but executed in familiar way, OR something familiar, executed in a different way. #agenttip
@jonnygeller
jonny geller
Isn’t that fabulous? Now all we have to do is write those books.
Here I am, writing…
So that’s what I’m doing wrong! I’m offering something completely new in a completely new way, which has a hint of familiarity, in a familiar sort of way, whilst still being completely new in familiarly new different way. Oh well. Back to the drawing board!
Claire, I’m glad to hear that you’re writing. About time, too.
Simon, thanks for clarifying that for me. I’m much more confused now, and so everything’s back to normal. Ha!
I am writing, too. But since I’m writing something familiar executed in a familiar way, I think I’ll cross Mr Geller off my list. And all the other agents too…
“I don’t know what I want, but I want it now!”
(V. Stanshall)
Surely, by the time you’ve written what the publishers want, they’ll want something different? To hell with it – I’ll make ‘em want what I’m writing!
In other words, they’ll know what they want when they see it.
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