cylonqueen asked: Fair warning: This will come across as impertinent, though I don't mean it that way at all. How many times was your first book rejected by agents when you first queried? (I'm asking because I adore your writing. I'm wondering how many people are now kicking themselves for 'what could have been'.)
I didn’t think to get an agent until I’d had my fourth book published.
My first book-sale was off an outline that I sent to about five publishers. Three said no, one bought it and one is still going to get back to me. My second I was called by a publisher and asked to write it.
About book four I decided it was time to get an agent, so I chose the agent who had just sold book four in the US for the UK publisher for a lot of money, and she’s been my agent ever since.