Susan is celebrating….find out why… Reblogged from S.K.Nicholls

Friday night Cocktail Hour, me and my husband milling through the crowd looking at all the pasta and potatoes we couldn’t eat, and holding up the pillars in the room. Me sipping a glass of red wine, while they called out the raffle winners. And then I spotted her. An acquisitions editor who had told us during the editor’s panel that she was looking for characters that were unlikely pairings in unpredictable situations and adores brassy, bad-ass, female protagonists. I approached her introduced myself, asked her about what acquisitions editors do and was invited to give her my pitch. Even though Brandi had not always been female…she assured me that she qualified, and asked for a fifty page manuscript and a synopsis. Score!

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