Wanna get a book deal?
Finding a Different Gear
Everyone has a baseline: for work, life, exercise, relationships. The definition of a baseline is a minimum or starting point used for comparisons. You know yours. It’s your typical pace; nice and normal and cozy and safe. But what good is a baseline if you never find its comparison? What if you remind yourself that a baseline—your everyday grind—is, in fact, your minimum level of effort? What happens when you click into a different gear?
"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm going to try to work on at least one of these today. Quote sourced from the beautifully illustrated Start Where You Are journal by Brooklyn-based artist Meera Lee Patel.
Wanna Get a Book Deal?
Sometimes we don’t do things because the next step is too hard. Too out of reach. Too complex. Getting a book published feels like that. But my friend Andrew Carter told me about Manuscript Wishlist, which rounds up literary agents and the kind of titles they're seeking. You still have to do the work, of course, but not every step is out of reach if you’re armed with the right information. Here’s the site and their helpful tweets.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara