Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Smash!

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." ~Arnold H. Glasgow

This is a quote I found online today that pretty much sums up how I've been feeling about the whole query process. Trying so desprately to hatch the egg, when what I want to do is smash it with a frying pan.

I have searched every data base that I know of, trying to find agents who take YA and/or fantasy. The list is slim even in the secular market. Laughable in the Christian market. And so many of them that I find turn out to work at the same agency. I feel like I've about memorized them all!

So what next? Continue to hound the same agents over and over, with new and improved, revised and repolished query letters? Exhaust my savings by becoming a conference junkie? Self-pub?

The egg just seems to be sitting there. Doing nothing.

I should throw in something about slow and steady winning the race, or any of the multitude of Bible verses that address patience. But, I'm not in the mood. If anything, I'm developing a taste for an omelet right now....

6 comments:

KM Wilsher said...

Love the egg quote :) And where you took it!
Keep hope alive sister!

Dayle James Arceneaux said...

I feel your pain. Fortunately, this is one area of my life where my usual impatience isn't quite so prevalent.

Kat Heckenbach said...

You're lucky then, Dayle! I am, I can say, at least learning a bit of patience from this. But some days I just wonder if I'm misreading God's messages to me...

Only time (faith, and prayer) will tell.

Bekah said...

You're last sentence made me laugh!! Kat, your blog is amazing, and I love it.
Keep on doing what you're doing...I'm positive that God will bring a publisher for your book into your life.

Bekah

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Kat Heckenbach said...

Thanks, Bekah, for the vote of confidence, and for the info on the purity ring. Gonna check that out--my daughter is only six, but you just can't start too early teaching about self-respect and God's wishes for purity.