On this day last month, I got the call that I’d sold my first book. So, what’s happened in the first month afterward?
1. I decided on a pen name, Tricia Mills, for my young adult work.
2. I bought the Tricia Mills domain name.
3. I started a Tricia Mills MySpace page.
4. I talked to the young adult librarian at my local library branch about how to go about getting my books into the collection when they’re released.
5. I’ve started gathering information about contacts at bookstores.
6. I’ve communicated with my editor. Squee! I still love saying that.
7. I was invited to take part in a published authors breakfast with librarians and booksellers at the Moonlight & Magnolias Conference at the end of September.
8. I’ve been brainstorming ideas for a teen-centered blog to start building a teen readership even before my books come out.
9. In an effort to sell my adult fiction, I’ve been working on requested revisions to a manuscript for Harlequin American. I plan to have that completed and to my agent next week.
In the weeks since the RWA Conference, not only have I sold but four of my friends, all past Golden Heart finalists, have as well. Fellow Romance Bandits Jeanne Adams and Beth Burgoon, 2005 GHer Delilah Ahrendt, and two-time GH finalist Trish Cerrone all sold their first books. It’s been a great second half of the summer for the GHers.
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