THE EDGE is an Amazon First Read!
I’m thrilled, amazed, baffled, and terrified to reveal that my debut novel THE EDGE is included in this month’s Amazon First Reads selection for the UK and Australia! 1st November has been my release date for a long, long time. As I’ve discussed on this blog many times before, publishing is a long, slow slog of a process, and each writer has many secrets to keep along the way. Amazon First Reads was the biggest of mine. Because although November is still the official release date for the ebook and paperback, and that’s when it’ll release to the North American…
THE EDGE, Publishing November!
In my last post, I was heading off on submission for the first ever time with my psychological thriller I’M HERE FOR YOU, and I didn’t know what the outcome would be. Would any editors want to see the full novel? Would I get an offer? Would I be going back out on submission with a new book sooner than I realised? I just didn’t know. Well, as it turns out, submission was rather successful! I’m thrilled to announce (late, as I already broke the news on Twitter, then Instagram, then Facebook) that my debut novel, now called THE EDGE,…
On Submission
I’m pretty sure I ended my last post with the promise of posting another very soon — and then in true Lucy style, didn’t post again for two years. I never mean to do this. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a socially anxious girl and blog posts often feel like the online equivalent of running naked through town screaming “look at me, look at me!!”, so in times of stress, busyness, and pandemics, it’s generally easier to avoid them entirely. But I’m back! And I have news! While many people spent 2020 baking bread, training puppies, and getting into houseplants,…
That One Yes
Querying literary agents is often a slog, lasting multiple years and multiple manuscripts, generating dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of rejections — but in the end, you only need one agent to love your book. That’s it. One query, one agent, and one yes. Well, two months ago, I got that yes. I am incredibly happy to announce that I am now represented by literary agent Luigi Bonomi of LBA! I’m so excited to work with the LBA team on the books I love — psychological thrillers with dark twists, emotional arcs, and positive feminist messages — and I really hope we’ll…
Limbo
As I wrote in my last post, Just Press Send, I’ve taken the first step in my publishing journey and started querying: sending my work out to literary agents in the hope that one of them will want to represent me as a writer. While there are other routes to getting a novel in print — self-publishing, indie presses — I’ve always wanted to be traditionally published and see my books for sale in a real-life bookshop, and for that a literary agent is essential. So three weeks ago I got all my files together, wrote a kick-ass query letter,…
Just Press Send
On Friday morning I sat in bed with various empty chocolate wrappers around me and two dozen drafted emails on my laptop screen. After years of work on THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND, I was finally ready to go: book completed, literary agents researched, queries typed, email addresses copied, and files attached. There was nothing stopping me from taking this next exciting step in my life – except for me. I couldn’t press send.
The End
A lot has changed in my life in the past three years, but there’s been one constant: my novel, The Girl You Left Behind. It’s been my shadow, growing and evolving from a dream-inspired scrawl in a notebook to a first draft, a second, a third, a fourth, and now, finally, into a finished product. For the first time since 2015, I am no longer writing a book — I have written it.
2017 — Only the Good Stuff
A year is a big ol’ chunk of time. While 2017 easily wins the title of Worst Year of My Life So Far, these past twelve months have also been peppered with positives. Between the sobbing fits and long tearful walks and whole evenings spent pouring my heart out on Reddit, I did so much. I traveled. Danced. Made new friends. Reconnected with old ones. Went to shows. Saw movies. Played games. Read. Wrote. Learned to be happy again. Somehow, in the midst of crippling situational depression, I managed to carve out a handful of distinct happy memories that no one…
Daily Mail First Crime Novel Competition 2017
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been selected as a runner-up in this year’s Daily Mail First Crime Novel Competition for my psychological thriller THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND! [Cue confetti, champagne, and a whole bakery of cake.] The novel, which is set over a single day, tells the story of a troubled young woman taken hostage in her own home by men trying to rob her wealthy father — and her attempt to escape her captors before they uncover the dark secrets of her past. Being a finalist is surreal. I didn’t believe it at first. I found out when…
Holiday Healing
Despite being a heartbroken wreck who cries all the time and sometimes can’t pluck up the courage to leave the house, I made myself a promise in my last post. A promise that I’d try to enjoy my upcoming family holiday as much as possible. That I’d smile. Wear bikinis. Eat too many desserts. And I did. It wasn’t easy. I cried in the shower. In bed. In my dark room before the door even had time to shut behind me. I swam alone in the pool one morning, sobbing, because the “soothing” songs the hotel had picked were all…
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Lucy Goacher 