Sunday, January 17, 2010

How does an Angel earn her wings?

I remember a conference many years ago when a very popular author told us she had wall papered her bathroom in her office with rejections letters. At the time I took that to heart and realized that, yes, I could keep receiving rejections and still publish. I still don't have enough rejection letters to paper my entire bathroom, but I think I could come close. Shortly after that conference I did publish with Kensington. I had a short but very memorable experience with Kate Duffy. Kate Duffy was an icon in the business and I will never forget that phone call from her when she offered me a contract. I had several other conversation with her and she was always so upbeat and postive. Recalling one phone conversation when she told me how much she loved my books but by hero and heorines were all frequent flyers. Yes, the stories I sent to her the characters did move around. Oh well, not all my characters move from place to place.

How did I get my wings? I published with Kensington in 1998. Dakota's Bride was my first novel and My Angel the second. I now have my rights to Dakota's Bride and it will be published by Rogue Phoenix Press this March. I have sense published the Highland series with Awe-struck and the rest of the Dakota's Bride series with RPP. I have another series with Awe-struck. It is a regency series, a spin off of the fairy tale about the twelve dancing princess.

I hope to publish more of my books with RPP.

2 comments:

  1. I remember hearing that now-bestselling author talk about rejections also. And you've obviously done quite well, Allana, so I guess perseverance pays off--and you have multi-colored wings to prove it!


    -Amber Angel

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