by Jennifer Trethewey | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
I hit the jackpot when Ruth Urquhart agreed to narrate my first novel, Tying the Scot. My wonderful literary agent, Cassie Hanjian (now with DeFiore & Company), wrangled a four-book dream contract with Audible for me. But those dream contracts don’t come with...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Oct 27, 2017 | Blog
The question I’m most often asked by my friends is, “What made you write Highland romance?” It’s a hard question to answer because I have trouble retracing my long, winding path back to the beginning and there were so many things that I fell in love with about...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
I was having fun writing romance novels. Then I got an agent and a book deal with Entangled Publishing. Sounds like a fairytale, right? Well, things just got real. My first novel TYING THE SCOT is due for release November 27th of this year. Yeah. Two and a half months...
by Jennifer Trethewey | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
I attended a writer’s conference last year during which presenters lit a fire under unpublished authors to get their social media ducks in a row before sending out query letters. Apparently, the first thing many agents and editors do is Google you. If you have no web...
by Jennifer Trethewey | May 6, 2017 | Blog
Five Things I’ve Learned About Becoming a Writer 1. Writers Write. Writing requires time and focus (and talent, but I’ll get to that). If you don’t have the drive to sit at your computer for hours and write, then you’re probably not going to...
by Jennifer Trethewey | May 6, 2017 | Blog
FQL: Fricking Query Letters This is how I feel about fricking query letters: I’d rather move back in with my parents than write a fricking query letter. I’d rather run my fingers through Donald Trump’s comb-over than write a fricking query letter....
