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Josh:
Josh Vogt here, fantasy author who has recently signed on with Folio Literary Management. My agent and I are prepping an urban fantasy novel called Enter the Janitor to send it around to publishers in the coming month.
Great to be here!
JRVogt.com
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meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Josh on September 13, 2010, 08:37:26 PM ---Josh Vogt here, fantasy author who has recently signed on with Folio Literary Management. My agent and I are prepping an urban fantasy novel called Enter the Janitor to send it around to publishers in the coming month.
Great to be here!
JRVogt.com
The Fiction Writer's Virtual Toolbox - 150+ links to tools and resources for writers
Follow on Twitter @JRVogt
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Welcome, added you to my tweet, but I hope that you'll shortly be moved into the Published Author on board section! What wonderful news and Folio is an excellent agency! Well done!
If you are willing to share your query that got the agent lined up, please do so! Just create a new thread that says..."Query that Worked!" and give us the behind the scenes scoop? How many agents did you query? Did you write the dreaded synopsis? Had you met the agent previously? Did you have a referral or climb straight up the slush pile? Just how many manuscripts did you write before this successful one? And JUST how many revisions did you agonize through before being accepted--and then what about that 'revisions the agent requested' go?
I'm sure you will have people lining up to ask you questions, if you are willing. If you have a writer's blog where you've discussed this--all the better.
Forgive me. Just call me the Parana sponge... That's what I call myself! Thank you so much for posting!
Josh:
Hi Meg! Thanks so much for the warm welcome. Yes, it'd be marvelous if I got to put a post in the Published Author board. Maybe, if all goes well, that'll be updated in the next few months. Who knows?
In the meantime, I will get over to the Query that Worked section and provide some more detailed info on how the whole agent things came about.
I do have a blog, which you can either access through www.JRVogt.com or JRVogt.blogspot.com. I'm also on Twitter most days, and would love to make some new connections and answer any questions folks have.
Lastly, my website also has a recently updated Fiction Writer's Virtual Toolbox, which, as you can see in my signature, includes 150+ links to writing craft and business resources I've collected over the years (a couple links to Jim's writing posts are included). I hope all that is some help to start.
GreenInBlack:
Evening, folks.
I'm an aspiring writer from Michigan, and I'm in the process of working on a series of books based in ever-notorious city of Detroit.
For my first book, it centers on the life and trials of the hunter (and high-talent wizard) William Ashton as he tries to help people who don't trust the Watchers, a UN-created policing organization, to protect them from the mortals (and para-naturals) that walk the darkened alleys of the world. Hell, Will doesn't really care for them either, even though he used to be a Watcher himself.
Now a freelance hunter, Will ends up being kidnapped and given an offer he can't refuse. If he can find and bring to justice an assassin hellbent on killing the vampire Queen, he'll be given enough money to have his comatose sister looked at by the best doctors in the world, to find out what put her in said coma (which he feels personally responsible for, since it happened while he was on a case as a Watcher and hence his leaving the Watchers).
However, there are a lot of different people that seem to be interested in making sure that Will doesn't accomplish this task, ranging from rogue wizards to repentant vampires and even a rock band interested in recruiting him to be their lead guitarist. What's a wizard/hunter/guitarist to do?
Be the good guy, stop the bad guys. It's a simple plan.
Terminalvelocityturkey:
Names Brad, from Texas. I've been dabbling with writing for a long while now but yet to try getting published, but I think this is the one I'm going to give it a shot.
Basic setup is magic, a re-imagined mash-up of Quetzcoatl, 2012, and a new dystopia. Just a few of the little ideas that I have weaving in and out of my plot line which, with the problems I have in mind for my protagonist, Alexander Walker, will hopefully stretch across a nice little set of books. :)
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