Jo Treggiari's Page

So, I’m sure many frustrated writers out there exhausted by constant rejection and all the tough aspects of breaking into the business find themselves considering self-publishing.
I admit I have a bias against it. I’m pretty insecure about my writing. And very serious about it. I like editorial feedback. I like feedback from my agent. Before I had either of those, I relied on my beta readers and a freelance editor (who happened to be my first agent). I know I’m a good writer but I’m never sure h… Continue

….like replacing ’s’ with ‘z’. I mean how 1987 lame is that?
One of the downsides to reading tons of very informative and entertaining editor and agent blogs is that I get a window into the business side of publishing. Useful certainly, but sometimes all this knowledge gets in the way of the writing part of writing.
Like this fascinating blog: Scroll down to the Thursday Oct. 9 2009 entry.
Susan Adrian Blogspot/Agent Suzie Townsend

One agent’s opinion, yes, but one who apparently knows her stuf… Continue

This is how I think it should be.
We rove (or drift) through life examining things of interest, finding them in books or movies or by direct contact. An acorn, a jet plane engine, bruschetta, a grand jete, a lemon meringue pie recipe, a chimpanzee in the wild, Leonardo’s machines, wolves, space travel, magic, herbal plants, gardening, fighting techniques, claustrophobia (for instance) and we let ourselves experience these things. Give ourselves over to the crush of having discovered something ne… Continue

When I was first published and still living in the hazy, warm dream of having a book out there, on book store shelves and in libraries, many of my friends told me that they had always wanted to write a book. They then proceeded to tell me at length about whatever it was. I am crap at synopsizing myself but let me tell you, there is nothing so boring as to listen to someone droning on about something big and amorphic that exists purely in the brain and not on paper where the lapses and faults wou… Continue