![]() ![]() Gita: It took me about 2 ½ years from inception to querying. Tell us about your experience writing Enchantée. Gita: Exciting! But unfamiliar, like moving from behind the camera to standing in front of it. A MONTH! Here’s the scoop.įirst of all, how does it feel to be interviewed for The Winged Pen instead of writing a post? Gita is too modest to tell you this herself, but when she queried Enchantée, she rocked it! She had an 80% request rate, got her first offer after 16 days, received one request from an agent who’d heard about her novel through the rumor mill, and ended up with offers from six agents. ![]() It’s full of magic and romance, struggles to get by, and the excesses of Versailles. ![]() Gita Trelease’s Enchantée (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2019) is a gorgeously-written YA historical fantasy set in pre-revolutionary Paris. We’ll get an agent and sell a book…eventually! When revisions needed in our work-in-progress seem endless or a rejected query has us ready to give up, they’re the reminder that the next step will happen. ![]()
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