AHHH CHRONNERS I'M SO EXCITED
TOO EXCITED FOR SENSIBLE WORDS REALLY SO HERE'S A PRESS RELEASE (OMG MY FIRST PRESS RELEASE)
EMMA MAREE URQUHART JOINS JJLA
Emma Maree Urquhart has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Her new novel ALL THE BROKEN THINGS reads like Pacific Rim with a Scottish mythology kick. It might also be viewed as a twisted SF version of TWILIGHT. Disabled engineer Anna is metal from the waist-down, badass from the toes up, and Scottish through and through. She patches up glossy military war machines built to fight supernatural monsters. When a monster she saves becomes dangerously obsessed with her, Anna sets out to turn the tables on the increasingly violent Enli. But there are monsters on all sides, and her fight uncovers secrets about the machines that threaten everything she’s been fighting for.
Her debut children’s fantasy novel DRAGON TAMERS was self-published in the UK when Emma was 13, with sales of over 35,000 copies and has been traditionally published in Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Greek, and Portuguese. Emma is now in her late 20s and is a software tester, spending her days finding creative ways to break websites and apps and her nights finding creative ways to break fictional characters. She lives in the north of Scotland and on the weekends can be found learning roller derby, binge drinking tea and taking long brainstorming walks in the woods.
“The immediacy of Emma’s writing grabbed me straight away, from the first page,” said John Jarrold. “There were times I wanted to scream at Anna, others that I wanted to hug her. And the world and creatures that Emma has imagined are totally believable, while the story unwinds in ways that are entirely unexpected and heart stopping. Brilliant!”
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Okay, so you lot all know John Jarrold from the Traditional Publishing section of the board, right? He's answered loads of questions over the years and is amazing. Yeah, THAT guy. That's my new agent.
I CAN'T EVEN
I DON'T
I JUST
...I worked so damn hard to get here. So many manuscripts, so many revisions, so many rejections.
I can't believe it. I hope to see many more of you Chrons badasses with similarly awesome announcements soon—I can't wait for a publishing future where we can all share our worlds.
I'm gonna use the posts below this to share some info that might help others out, in an attempt to be pay it forward. Stay tuned for querying stats and my actual query!
TOO EXCITED FOR SENSIBLE WORDS REALLY SO HERE'S A PRESS RELEASE (OMG MY FIRST PRESS RELEASE)
EMMA MAREE URQUHART JOINS JJLA
Emma Maree Urquhart has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Her new novel ALL THE BROKEN THINGS reads like Pacific Rim with a Scottish mythology kick. It might also be viewed as a twisted SF version of TWILIGHT. Disabled engineer Anna is metal from the waist-down, badass from the toes up, and Scottish through and through. She patches up glossy military war machines built to fight supernatural monsters. When a monster she saves becomes dangerously obsessed with her, Anna sets out to turn the tables on the increasingly violent Enli. But there are monsters on all sides, and her fight uncovers secrets about the machines that threaten everything she’s been fighting for.
Her debut children’s fantasy novel DRAGON TAMERS was self-published in the UK when Emma was 13, with sales of over 35,000 copies and has been traditionally published in Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Greek, and Portuguese. Emma is now in her late 20s and is a software tester, spending her days finding creative ways to break websites and apps and her nights finding creative ways to break fictional characters. She lives in the north of Scotland and on the weekends can be found learning roller derby, binge drinking tea and taking long brainstorming walks in the woods.
“The immediacy of Emma’s writing grabbed me straight away, from the first page,” said John Jarrold. “There were times I wanted to scream at Anna, others that I wanted to hug her. And the world and creatures that Emma has imagined are totally believable, while the story unwinds in ways that are entirely unexpected and heart stopping. Brilliant!”
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Okay, so you lot all know John Jarrold from the Traditional Publishing section of the board, right? He's answered loads of questions over the years and is amazing. Yeah, THAT guy. That's my new agent.
I CAN'T EVEN
I DON'T
I JUST
...I worked so damn hard to get here. So many manuscripts, so many revisions, so many rejections.
I can't believe it. I hope to see many more of you Chrons badasses with similarly awesome announcements soon—I can't wait for a publishing future where we can all share our worlds.
I'm gonna use the posts below this to share some info that might help others out, in an attempt to be pay it forward. Stay tuned for querying stats and my actual query!
I've got the kettle boiling, some nice local Caorunn gin, and a bottle of Writer's Tears whiskey from Marks & Spencers. And pancakes, because omg, pancakes.
