{"id":18542,"date":"2011-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-02-26T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:07:00","slug":"wow-weds-lisa-and-laura-roecker-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transmediamutts.com\/blog\/wow-weds-lisa-and-laura-roecker-on\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW Weds: Lisa and Laura Roecker on Writerly Butt Kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/childrenspublishing.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/wow-weds-lisa-and-laura-roecker-on.html';\ntweetmeme_hashtags = 'amwriting';\ntweetmeme_source='4kidlit';\n<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" width=\"50\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Lisa and Laura Roecker are sisters-turned-writing-partners with a love of all things Young Adult. Some call it arrested development, but the sisters claim it keeps them young. Plus, it\u2019s cheaper than Botox. THE LIAR SOCIETY, just released,&nbsp;has been described as&nbsp;&#8220;a page-turning, pearl-clutching mystery.&#8221; It&#8217;s&nbsp;their first novel.&nbsp;Catch them <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LandLroecker\">on twitter<\/a> or on <a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-laura.blogspot.com\/\">their blog<\/a>. They are represented by Catherine Drayton at Inkwell Management<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>The Roeckers on Getting Their Literary Butts Kicked<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1402256337\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adveninchilds-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1402256337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" r6=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transmediamutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/liar-society.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-18543\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>Writing is terrifying. First, you have to battle your own inner-critic, who says your descriptions aren\u2019t\u2026um, descriptive enough, your characters two-dimensional, your dialogue stilted. And then, in our case, you send your chapter to your partner, who edits it to within an inch of its life. There\u2019s beta readers, agent feedback, editor critiques, line edits (yowsers), professional reviews, blog reviews, fellow writer reviews, the list goes on and on. <strong>Our biggest piece of advice for aspiring authors is to learn how to accept and apply feedback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sooner you thicken your skin, the better<\/strong><br \/>\nWe finished our first book in about two months. Naturally, it was the best book we\u2019d ever read. Oh, and it was the best idea in the entire world. Or so we thought until we got rejected by almost every literary agent in the United States. After over 100 rejections we were ready to figure out what we\u2019d done wrong. Luckily, some very kind agents provided some incredibly valuable feedback about our writing. Was it easy to hear our writing wasn\u2019t perfect? No. Was it easy to learn how to grow as writers? No. Was it important to grow as writers? HELL YES. These generous agents helped us identify our writing ticks that distracted readers and the tells that gave us away as a writing team. Who knows where we would be now if we hadn\u2019t listened. Probably slapping another band-aid on that mess of a manuscript!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beta readers, whut whut!<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ll never forget attaching our first manuscript to our dad in an email. We typed, \u201cHey Dad! Our friend is hoping to be published one day and would love a reader\u2019s opinion on her book. Do you have the time?\u201d At this point, we hadn\u2019t told anyone we\u2019d begun writing together. I mean, we still thought we\u2019d sell in some overnight, ginormous, mega deal and we couldn\u2019t wait to see the looks on their faces. But we were smart enough to know we needed outside opinions. So, who better than our dad?! Even better, he wouldn\u2019t know WE had written it! Win-win. Well, unless he writes back and says, \u201cNot my cup of tea.\u201d Yowsers. With our tails between our legs, we learned (the hard way) that beta readers who are not related to you are quite possibly one of the most valuable tools a writer can have. Even better if they\u2019re fellow writers! With The Liar Society, we were so incredibly lucky to find readers who weren\u2019t afraid to tell us we were missing an emotional core or the beginning seemed to drag on forever. We could never write without them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping<\/strong><br \/>\nTake. Your. Time. Okay, full disclosure: We STILL struggle with this advice. We have a tendency to rush and are constantly afraid our idea is going to be snapped up or we\u2019re going to miss the next big thing, etc., etc. The reality is, publishing moves at glacial speed. Your big idea today (if it\u2019s good enough) will be a big idea six months from now. Learn from our mistakes. Make your work shine BEFORE you send it out to hundreds of literary agents. As exciting as it is to type \u201cThe End\u201d and ship that bad boy off, resist the urge, take a step back and make sure you\u2019re completely, utterly, whole-heartedly proud of your work. Because you get one chance to make that first impression. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve got a friend\u2026er you need a friend<\/strong><br \/>\nUnless you want to turn to the bottle (or the bag of Hershey kisses), you\u2019ll need some friends to soften the blow of all this feedback you\u2019ll be applying. Plugging ourselves into the writing community has made us feel like we\u2019re a part of something bigger, like we\u2019re surrounded by people who understand, who care and share and want to see us succeed. There\u2019s absolutely nothing like a community of supportive writers. We love talking about our hope tank. This tank is constantly fluctuating and is at different levels for both of us. The best remedy for an empty hope tank are friends who make you laugh or listen to you complain or pick you back up again. We\u2019re lucky enough to have each other, but it still helps us immensely to be surrounded by likeminded individuals. They get us and that\u2019s saying something! So, if you\u2019re comfortable, plug in to the world of writers. It\u2019s such a wonderfully supportive place to be. Just don\u2019t forget to\u2026um, write. Yeah, this whole world can be a little distracting sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>We really appreciate being featured on Adventures in Children\u2019s Publishing. Thanks so much for having us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa and Laura Roecker are sisters-turned-writing-partners with a love of all things Young Adult. Some call it arrested development, but the sisters claim it keeps them young. Plus, it\u2019s cheaper than Botox. 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