To my fellow writers:

Feel free to sing along above the original lyrics  Thanks to B.o.B., and the song goddess that is Hayley Williams, for the inspiration!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU

"Can we pretend that manuscripts

On the hard drive

Are like future ARCs?

I could really use an agent right now,

Agent right now,

Agent right now. (x2)

Yeah,

I could use an agent or a rep or a pub,

To get my manuscript some acclaim and some love

Cause after all the typin’

The editin’, re-hashin’

The late night sessions

Hard work in the trash bin.

SASEs and the standard rejections

There comes a time when you fade to the blackness.

Yeah, you stare at the phone in yo lap

And hopin’ but the agents never call you back.

But that’s just how the story unfolds

You get another lead

Soon after you’re told.

And when you get asked for a partial request

Will they all be thinkin’ that your work is the best?

So manuscript, manuscript

I think you’re dope.

I’ll send you away

So don’t lose that hope.

If I don’t get a rep

Then I’ll switch my sights

I’ll be back on Agent Query

By the end of the night.

(chorus)

Yeah,

Yeah,

Somebody take me back to the days

Before this was a book

Nothin’ but a blank page

Before it ever mattered what I had on Facebook

Back when I was trying to get my photos some looks.

And back when I was writin’ for the hell of it.

But nowa’days I’m writin’ to stay relevant.

I’m guessing that if I can make ARCs out of manuscripts

Then maybe oh maybe I’ll make top 20 lists.

Before my website was lookin’ super sweet

And back when ain’t nobody ever read my Tweets.

And back before I filled up my journal sheets.

But this is for New York,

What’s up Simon Schust?

So can I get a rep to fuel my author rep,

Get a contract and a proof on my step.

So here I sit

And again I say,

I’m hoping’ we can make some ARCs out of manuscripts."

(chorus)

~Scott 

"Live, Learn, Teach"

www.scotthbooks.com