When Agents Ask You to "Revise and Resubmit": Episode 285 with Mindy Carlson

Querying and submitting is a jungle, campers&#8212;and yet if it&#8217;s done right, it can not only work out happily in the end, but seem as if it were meant to be. &#8220;Meant to be&#8221; after a year of additional work, anyway.<br/><br/>Mindy Carlson has just signed a 2 book deal with Crooked Lane Books. The first, Her Dying Day, comes out June 7, 2022. I asked her to come on to talk about her road to publication--because she revised and resubmitted her novel not just once but twice before signing with her now agent. Said agent was one of her top choices and among the first she submitted to, but it was a long road to that happy ending. Mindy tells the whole story in this episode, in which we also talk revisions, when editors know what&#8217;s wrong&#8212;but not necessarily how to fix it, writing conferences, thriller plotting and more.<br/><br/>Links from the Pod<br/><br/><a href="https://www.thebigthrill.org/">The Big Thrill </a>(the online magazine of the International Thriller Writers Association)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.thebigthrill.org/?p=71968">Mindy&#8217;s interview with Anthony Horowitz</a> <br/><br/><a href="https://amwriting.substack.com/p/episode-229-interviewing-with-nprs">Episode 229 #Interviewing with NPR's Celeste Headlee</a><br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Mindy: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781982163846">The Family Plot</a> by Megan Collins<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593336731">Dial A for Aunties</a> by Jesse Q. Sutanto<br/><br/>KJ: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062936172">No Bad Deed</a> by Heather Chavez<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984806260">A Special Place for Women</a> by Laura Hankin<br/><br/>And&#8212;got a burning question about a writing life issue? Something on your mind you&#8217;d love for us to help you with? Email us at <a href="mailto:amwriting@substack.com">amwriting@substack.com</a>. We can&#8217;t promise to answer everyone, but if we think we could be useful to you (or know someone who can) and if your i