David Weller Author Blogspot

These past few days I've been constructing a brand new author website to provide information about my writing journey. I've also constructed a new Facebook page. The following is a list of my social media links: Twitter. @DavidWeller06 Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorDavidWeller06 Author Website: https://davidweller06.wixsite.com/2021 I shall continue to update this blog as well. Featured at the moment on my Twitter page is a video of Georgina Keyes reading the first 700 words of Secret of Heathcote Manor.

I started this blog to chart the progress of my debut novel from first draft through to publication. However, Truthseeker has now been leap-frogged by another of my tales entitled Secret of Heathcote Manor which recently caught the attention of a literary agent. Over the coming months I will chart Secret of Heathcote Manor's progress as I work through the manuscript with my agent in preparation for submission to a publisher. That doesn't mean that Truthseeker will be entirely forgotten as that still features in my long-term plans. Should there be any further developments I shall document them. I hope you will join me on the next stage of my writer's journey

This evening, I received an offer of representation from Cindy Bullard at Birch Literary which I have accepted.

Since I completed the first draft of Truthseeker, it has been revised and rewritten several times. Even now, whilst the full MS is under consideration by a publisher, I continue to find things which need to be tweaked. The same is true of Secret of Heathcote Manor, which is on the verge of acceptance by a literary agent. It would seem to me that no story is ever really finished, and that the editing process could go on forever. 

An author's optimism soars whenever an agent or publisher requests the full manuscript. Then, as the days pass without any further response, pessimism gradually sets in. Waiting to learn whether or not an agent or publisher wishes to make an offer can be the hardest part of the querying process. When the answer is no, it brings with it a great deal of disappointment. A bad advocate is worse than having no advocate at all, so it is important that an agent or publisher is just as enthusiastic about an MS as the author. I find the best way to manage the process is to assume that the agent or publisher is going to decline and continue looking for other possible publishing partners. That way when the dreaded rejection slip finds its way into my inbox, I am ready to go.