My Book Deal Moment

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. I was 50 years old and since I’d been a teenager I’d had two wishes (well, okay, more than that, but these were the two most unattainable): I wished for a book deal and to see Kate Bush in concert. I knew both were a long … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Catherine Simpson

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. My first inkling that maybe a book deal was about to be offered to me was when I received an email from Claire at Bookouture about a week before Christmas 2014 saying that they would like to talk to me about my novels. At that … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Nigel May

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. My agent rang to ask me if I would go and see a publisher that afternoon. I was in bed at the time, wallowing in depression, which I was trying to recover from. I jumped out of bed, showered, changed and was in the car in a New … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Kate Forster

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Getting a book deal is like winning the lottery. You don’t believe that it will ever really happen but you still lie awake at night wondering what it would be like anyway.  And, for some reason, you always picture yourself … [Read more...] about My Book Deal Moment by Ella Griffin