I, Eisley Jacobs, do solemnly swear to complete my MG novel by June 30, 2010. Why… because it’s so darn fun! I had the idea for this novel while driving around town. I think I was somewhere in Southeastern Littleton or Northern Centennial when I had the idea… and it hit me like a baseball [...]

That is me… and my new mantra. Read Edit Write Repeat It should the mantra of everyone who is attempting to ready a submission to an agent or publishing house. I have four completed manuscripts that need to be polished and run over with a fine tooth comb. I refuse to write another novel until [...]

I received a partial request… and I am immediately thankful I already started my first person rewrites… Sweeet! The funniest/craziest part of this request… I didn’t query for it. No, true story! Honest! I did query HER… sorta, if you could call that a query I sent. It was more like a “Umm yah, here [...]

Alright people… let’s talk goals. Significant ones, small ones, realistic, unrealistic… what type keeps you plugging? I made my 2500 daily goal, which I blew out of the water on Saturday. Over 8,000 words read/edited/written. (Yay me! *pat pat pat*) Upon posting that awesome goal breaker on twitter a couple people said, “Your goal must [...]

When I wrote RUNAWAY CHOICES, I started in first person and never left. It was an easy book to write and I felt like I captured the voice of Beck very well, as did my readers. After reading RUNAWAY CHOICES, my friend Debbie (*waves*)  said, “I couldn’t help but wonder what RINGS OF TIME would [...]

Well, my weekend away was awesome. I could have used a little more sleep (blame my stupid internal time clock, no one else) but it was an entirely fabulous weekend! We had great food, great company and some great writing times! Having sent a partial to an agent before I left, I knew I needed to [...]

I sent seven! And received a response from one in 12 minutes… That is some kinda record. The agent said he wasn’t the “most appropriate agent” for the nonfiction… Which was fine, it was a chance… I knew he did some NF but I just wanted to make sure… cuzz I liked that one. Anyhow, [...]

Some folks on twitter this weekend (in between me thinking I was dying from a 24 hour stomach bug… ya, fun) were mentioning names they would NEVER use in their WIP. Some of them are obvious to me, what with Pop Culture and whatnot… Like Brittany, Tiger, Lindsay, etc. But some of them weren’t! I [...]

It’s my birthday week… yes, I am turning older… a whole year older. How does that happen? In any event, if I don’t make goals for the week, things aren’t going to go as well as they could. Turning older takes thought and consideration. If I don’t have it written down, I just might think [...]

Now comes the hard part… wait wait wait. What am I talking about… well, so glad you asked. On Monday an agent (one we will call “Lovely Agent”) tweeted that she was being quite the pushover… so everyone should query her today. Ohh! Lovely Agent, it just so happens that you are on my top [...]