Nancy's Golden Rules of the Road to Publication

by

Nancy Richards Akers

WILD IRISH SKIES (Avon, 6/97), her second book set in Medieval Ireland, 1394-1399, weaves the story of another generation of the Irish and Anglo-Norman families living in the mountains south of Dublin.

** 1. Plot is not storyline. It's the barrier that prevents the hero and heroine from living happily-ever-after at the end of chapter one, and the story is the resolution of that plot.

** 2. There is no such thing as perfect writing; the written word can always be revised, can always be better. 2a. The writing process never gets easier, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you and themselves.

** 3. Getting Published & Selling Your Cherished Story Are Not Necessarily the Same. Or: Don't beat a dead horse ... in other words, don't submit a rejected ms. or proposal to every editor in town ... and don't revise it for the third or fourth or whatever time .... set it aside and start something new ... if you're learning anything during the 'aspiring process' then the next project will be better than the last ... Ask yourself this, "Is my goal to get published or to sell a specific story?"

Originally from New England, Nancy has lived in Washington, D.C. for more than twenty years. When she isn’t taking readers to far off times and places, she’s mommy to Finny, Zeb and Isabelle, who swear their mother is the glue-gun & costume queen of the universe. Along with mommy-ing, she’s wife to an ex-but-always-Marine, weightlifting, skydiving, gator-hunting attorney, who brings too many pets into their home -- a macaw, an African gray parrot, a cockatiel, snakes (yes, snakes), cats, dogs, and a troublesome tank of salt water fish.

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