Searching...



My dad finished reading my book this week. Phase Four: Third Draft is set to launch next week.

But, in the meantime, I've started searching for a literary agent. By "started searching", I mean logging into agentquery.com and swiftly scanning a few agents in the "middle grade" genre, before a few friends stopped by for a spontaneous movie night. Needless to say...yes, I got sidetracked.

I will get to it, eventually. Ok, sooner than later. After all, I only have 89 days until deadline. Can you believe it's October already?

As prep for my superhero series, I've started reading some popular bestelling series (how do you pluarlize series?) to sort of study the style and pace. I'm on Chapter Three of the Hunger Games. I've actually never read a book written from first person perspective AND in present tense. It's more difficult to get into the rhythm. But it definitely moves at a much faster, snappy speed, which is important for younger easily distracted readers. I also have The Lightning Thief and Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning to follow.

Also, I'm still in the middle of Francine Rivers' Mark of the Lion series. She is, by far, the most incredible writer I've ever read. She is a writing magician, and I'm not quite sure how she accomplishes it. Someday, I hope to be as talented.

I started this post to talk about literary agents, and strayed to listing off random books I'm reading...

Novel Update: "A Tale" has been read by two people, officially. Third draft is coming soon...