Nathan Walpow

Nathan Walpow writes:

I started writing in the early 90s. Within a year or two I had a couple of short stories published in the science fiction and fantasy short press. As soon as I sold the first, I started on my first novel. This was science fiction, sort of, though my wife insists it's a quest novel. (It takes place in present day Los Angeles and Baja California.) I worked on it for a year or two, then tried to get an agent. I still have the stack of 70 or 80 rejection letters. A few wanted chapters, one asked to see the whole manuscript, but the bottom line is I never got an agent and put the book aside.

I started a second book, a "mainstream comic novel," worked on it two years, never finished it. Then -- this would have been in '96 or '97 -- a friend convinced me I should try a mystery, and I did so. I only contacted two agents before meeting one at a writers' conference who loved the book. Two months later (spring '98) I had a two-book deal with Dell, and the first -- The Cactus Club Killings, the first Joe Portugal -- came out in May '99.

So I've been to both extremes: not even been able to get an agent behind a book, and selling one almost ridiculously easily. Of course, there've been tribulations since then. But that's another story.

Nathan Walpow is the author of Joe Portugal mystery series, including the upcoming The Manipulated.

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