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Notes passed between award-winning author couple Nicole & Mike Comforto about parenting, OCD, and writing. Subscribe for weekly Modern Love meets The Vlog Brothers-style posts.
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ADHD, OCD, OMG (opens the original)
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Hey Honey,You have been prolific in your posts here! Me, on the other hand... not so much. I could fire off a bunch of excuses reasons as to why I’ve been slow to post, like my job, the kids, etc. But you’ve got your own list, and you’ve managed plenty. And I’m not going to deflect from the reality here. Over the past ten years I’ve been diagnosed with some... exciting mental conditions: OCD and ADHD. My mental health charts look like alphabet soup. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" h
My Agent Journey: Successful Query Letter #3 (opens the original)
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Hey Honey,We are up to my final query story and letter! It’s time to tell everyone the story of how I found our current literary agent.This story starts in December 2019, when you and I had the frankly insane idea to try co-writing a novel. At the time, our kids were 4 and 1 years old, and our youngest had a sleep disorder where he would wake up screaming in the middle of the night for hours. We were exhausted, but we still both craved a creative outlet.I had written my first novel, and you had
My Agent Journey: (Almost) Successful Query Letter #2 (opens the original)
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Hey Honey,Last week, I wrote about how difficult it is to find a literary agent, and how lucky I’ve been to successfully find two agents over the years.When we left off, I had decided to pivot to fiction after my first nonfiction book proposal didn’t sell. I’ve always wanted to write fiction, and figured I would start seriously trying to write novels at some point. I LOVE novels. I love falling into stories. I love learning about lives and cultures and time periods that are different from my own
My Agent Journey: Successful Query Letter #1 (opens the original)
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Hey Honey,Over the years, a lot of people have asked me how I’ve managed to get two literary agents. I know so many talented writers out there who are still struggling to get their first literary agent. I understand why. Agents typically get tens of thousands of queries per year, and may sign three or so new clients each year. Those are overwhelming odds!And it’s only gotten harder. I love Stephen King’s craft memoir, On Writing, from 2001, but I laughed out loud when I read his advice on queryi
How our 7-year-old sold his first books before we did (opens the original)
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Hey Honey,Writers don’t usually talk about how long it took them to publish their first books until those books are published. Then it’s a success story with a happy ending: It took me 20 years to publish my first novel and now it’s a bestseller! As writers, we hear this all the time.What we almost never hear, at least outside the sphere of writers commiserating with each other, is about how many of us have been writing for years and years (in my case, 12) and still haven’t published a book. The
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