This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Like a lot of authors, for about as long as I can remember, I’d been scribbling down stories and embarrassingly rough drafts for novels. But then like most people, I just assumed that book deals were something that happened to … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Claudia Carroll
My Book Deal Moment
My Book Deal Moment by Louise Candlish
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. I’ve thought a lot recently about my first book deal moment because I’ve been revising and updating that novel – The Island Hideaway – for publication later this year and all the emotions of the time have been stirred up in the … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Louise Candlish
My Book Deal Moment by Claire Garber
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. A London Street. Torrential rain. A crazy lady struggling to open her office door; arms full of bags, a broken umbrella in one hand, coffee in the other. She spills coffee down herself, drops the umbrella, bags tumble to the … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Claire Garber
My Book Deal Moment by Jo Carnegie
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. It was summer 2006 and I was Deputy Editor at heat magazine. Those were the halcyon days of celebrity journalism and heat was the riding the crest, but I remember as the months and then years went by, I started to … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Jo Carnegie
My Book Deal Moment by Victoria Fox
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Relief. That was the overriding feeling when my agent called and told me we had an offer for my first book Hollywood Sinners. That makes it sound like I expected the deal, like I thought it should have happened, but that couldn’t … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Victoria Fox