I was just thinking… I haven’t really gotten a chance to share what it was like to find a publisher for BLISS–what, in fact, the whole process of writing it and shopping it around was like.
Short answer? Like birthing 65 bowling balls without an epidural (or an explanation for why I would be pregnant with bowling balls).
But let me back up.
I’ve known I wanted to write novels since I was able to read novels. And I’ve never had a desire to do anything else, at least professionally. (I delight in being a dilettante with baking and crocheting.) When I was very young, right out of college I had the almost-too-easy experience of selling my first novel, a historical romance, to a major publisher without an agent and without shopping it around. That’s a story for another day, but I will say that it gave me a skewed-as-hell idea of what it was like to get published, how rare and difficult it is. Later, I worked in the industry as an agent’s assistant and saw firsthand how tough it really is–even for great writers, which I was not.
A few years and a few life left turns later, I… Continue Reading »
Hilary Fields 