Ask the Author: Mar Preston
Answered Questions (6)
Mar Preston
A friend told me a story and my little ears went ping, ping, ping! She'll be disappointed at the final story in A Very Private High School. But she gave me the element of the plot.
Mar Preston
I've got stories to tell and I'm getting old.
Mar Preston
Truthfully? Getting a literary agent. I've done as well as possible self-publishing but I feel lately as though I'm bleating out in the wilderness. I have a completed novel about an elite private school in Santa Monica coupled with an international Russian car theft operation. This time I'm looking for a traditional publisher.
Mar Preston
Crash through your story to the end any old whichway. Don't worry about chapters or spelling or grammar. Get the story down. Then hire a professional editor who has been recommended to you and listen to what the editor says.
Mar Preston
You get to tell fabulous lies and go to work in your ratty old bathrobe.
Mar Preston
So far it hasn't really been an issue that's hung me up for long. Sure, there are days when I'd sooner play Spider Solitaire but the voices of my characters are pretty insistent. Also I figure if you don't show up when The Muse expects you, she'll quit showing up. And I am very respectful of my muse.
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