Try, Try Again

Nashville, Tennessee, author J.T. Ellison, whose first novel, All the Pretty Girls, will be published by Mira Books in November, tells interviewer Lance Carter from the Murder & Mystery Books 101 blog about her uneasy entry into the crime-writing field:

I began writing in 2003, latching on to crime fiction after reading John Sandford’s PREY series. I wanted to evoke that emotion, explore the darker side of life. I wrote a novella and submitted it everywhere, and got a ton of rejections. So I expanded it, altered the story and started over. I signed with my agent, but the book didn’t sell. It was back to the drawing board, but this time, a completely fresh book. All The Pretty Girls sold to Mira Books soon thereafter.

Read their whole exchange here.