Writer's Digest pitch slam was much better than I expected, even though I was quite sick with a sore throat. I saw 40 writers in two hours and there were quite a few truly quirky ideas that I am hoping will prove to be wonderful.
Then I went out for drinks with my out-of-town agent buddies, which is always pleasurable.
Then out to dinner with writers.
Thursday I wrapped up my meetings for BEA and had one of my clients come into town to speak to my NYU class, where I teach a class on preparing your book for presentation to an agent or editor(we were doing the nonfiction book proposal and he had recently retooled a book concept he had been working on for 3 years, so he had a lot of insight on how to make your book stronger). Then we went to dinner. Then we went to the pre-BEA parties (they all seemed to be set for Thursday night).
Meanwhile, I received a call from Jenny Rappaport, the other agent at the agency, that she had an auction on her hands. She was very excited (and so was I for her). She's had a great year. I gave her suggestions on how to get more money for the book. She said she didn't think she could ask for so much. I reminded her that she is trying to come up with the cash to pay for her wedding. She got the money!
Hit the ground running on Friday. I had set up meetings with my foreign agents (who always come in for BEA) and out-of-town editors. I also had two meetings for clients from out-of-town who were meeting their editors or brainstorming.
I had a party to attend Friday, but my sore throat acted up, so I had an early night.
Back for meetings on Saturday all day and then I went out to dinner with some of my clients who were in town for BEA.
Sunday I just collapsed.
I'm up early today because I'm getting ready to run downtown for more meetings with out-of-town editors. This will go on for the next two days.
4 comments:
Okay, Lori. When do you sleep? And do you even go on vacations? How many of the 40 writers did you request materials from? That's alot of pitching in 2 hours. How do you do it? You made me tired just from reading about it. :*)
One word (and some letters): Garlicin CF. No, I don't work for them. Whenever I start to feel like I'm coming down with a cold/flu (the sore throat) I dose up, and often it just goes away. You can find the stuff at Health Food Stores. It contains garlic, echinacea, vit c, and zinc.
Wow, busy weekend, Lori!
I have absolutely no idea how you do what you do. It all seems rewarding, but very taxing. I respect that schedule immensely and never be able to say I am stressed out again.
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