New York City (1993) “Details Magazine”

I wrote my first magazine article while I was waiting to hear back from agents regarding my novel GIRL (about a teenage girl and her local music scene.)  I was living in Portland at this time.  I was 32 years old. In those days, the way you got an agent was you wrote them a query letter (describing your novel) and mailed it to their office in New York.  If they were interested, they wrote you a letter back.  You then had to mail the xeroxed 400 page manuscript to them in a large padded manila envelope.  And then they wrote back, months later, telling you what they thought.  This took a lot of time.  There was a lot of waiting.