[This post is imported from my old Livejournal account, where I blogged from 2007-2015.]
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve spent the last couple of months rewriting parts of my book, because a lovely YA agent said she was interested in possibly representing me if I could make some changes. I sent off the new draft a fortnight ago, and the last few weeks of my life have basically been on tenterhooks, and stressing out on everyone I meet, to see if my changes were enough for her to want to officially take me on. Drumroll, it turns out they were. Cue huge, two hour hysterical sigh of relief. I’ve been jumping around the house since about 4pm.
“I’ve now read the new draft, and you’ve done an absolutely fantastic job.[….]I’d be delighted to offer you representation at this stage.”
I’ve got an agent! Who is committing to represent me! ME!!! She’s going to take my story to publishers and try and get them to like me, THAT IS SOMETHING SHE THINKS IT IS WORTH HER WHILE DOING. I’m…..so hAPPY ARGHH.
I’ve got a few things to adjust, and I’m going to see her again next week. I just….
me, if i had popcorn. and a piano. and was a hamster?
oh, and I turn 21 on saturday? that’s happening, i guess?[This post is imported from my old Livejournal account, where I blogged from 2007-2015.]
Published by Wren James
Wren James is the award-winning British author of eleven science fiction & fantasy novels, including The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together (previously published as Lauren James). Their books have sold over 200,000 copies in ten languages, and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was optioned for film by Amazon MGM.
Wren is a story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper, which was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Also a RLF Royal Fellow, Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability steering Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling with a focus on providing optimism and hope.
They have won the Sustainable Story Award and been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Carnegie Medal and STEAM Book Award.
Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.
Their latest titles are Last Seen Online, a crime thriller set in the world of fandom, and The Victors, a cosy fantasy graphic novel illustrated by Beth Fuller.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Follow them on Instagram & TikTok at @wrenjameswriter or find out more at wrenjames.co.uk.
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