Been sending the book to agents for two months now and half my friends don’t ask how it’s going anymore. Either they think its too painful for me to keep being reminded about or I’ve bored them all rigid about my book for the last two years and they daren’t risk starting me up again.
With the other half I tend to have the JK Rowling Conversation. Variants of this I’ve had at least ten times and it runs along the lines of:
'So, Rob, have you got an agent yet?'
'Not yet. I’m still working on it.'
'Good for you. JK Rowling kept getting rejected at the beginning too. And now she’s richer than the Queen.'
'Yes.'
'And did you know she had to write her first book in a café because she couldn’t afford to turn the heating on at home?'
'Yes, I’d heard that.'
'It just goes to show.'
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