Monday, March 07, 2016

Horoscopes for Writers

Pisces

You will receive four full requests on your manuscript.  Three agents will send you a form rejection within 48 hours.  You will never hear back from the fourth, in spite of working up your nerve and nudging them once every three months for an entire year. 

Aires

Put down the drink.  It won’t help the chapter arc like you think it will.

Taurus

Your critique group actually is stealing your brilliant ideas.  You are not paranoid; you are accurate.

Gemini

Landing an agent?  ahahahahahahahaha

Cancer

Feh.

Leo

You sent queries cc'd en masse bearing the salutation “Dear Agent Homeslice.”  Did you actually expect a response?  You won’t get one.

Virgo

Memoir is not hot right now.  Sorry. 

Libra

No one cares about vampires anymore.  Or dystopia.  Or zombies.  Or words.  Sorry.

Scorpio

You will receive kind, praise-filled rejections.  Your writer friends will tell you this is amazing, that this is progress even if you don’t think it is.  These same writer friends will land multi-book, six figure deals within the next two weeks. 

Sagittarius

Do you remember that girl from Calc?  The one you teased because she chewed on her hair?  No?  Well, she remembers you.  She now works at your dream agency.  Good luck with that.

Capricorn

The market is flooded with Capricorns right now.  Have you considered a major retooling of your day of birth?

Aquarius


You landed a book deal with a small but reputable press.  Your book comes out this month.  Oddly, three other books with similar plots and characters, all by renowned authors with bigger houses, are released the week before yours.  Your novel’s pages are not absorbent enough for your bitter tears.  

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