Melissa West

For anyone that has not heard, GRAVITY’s release date has been pushed back to October 30 th . To celebrate, I’ve created a list of 5 reasons why the 30 th rocks the socks off the 16 th . Five reasons why October 30 th is WAY better than October 16 th : #5: October 16 th is National Boss Day, therefore it can never also be National GRAVITY day. #4: October 30 th feels more like fall than October 16 th , which in my mind means it is luckier. #3: There are no other Entangled Teen books releasing on October 30th. Yes, I'm bratty and want the day all to myself. Just kidding...sort of. :D #2: My launch party now falls on November 2 nd . A weird fact about me—I tend to prefer “2” over all the other numbers. It’s  just cooler.    And the #1 reason that October 30 th is better than October 16 th ? It’s the day before HALLOWEEN!!! Yay! I’m pretty sure this means everyone will be drunk off candy corn and generally happy. Happy people are more likely to buy bo...

I mentioned on Twitter that I wanted to do a post on actual rejections that GRAVITY received while querying, and let me tell you, this was painful. Painful! Some of the rejections were too personalized to post, but a few caused me to take pause and I hoped to share those with you. Just a little history... I wrote GRAVITY in roughly three months, revised for two months, and then began querying. My request rate was insane, so I thought I was onto something. Boy was I ever wrong. I queried too early. Way, way, way, way too early. I should have let the MS rest for a few months first. Well, after receiving valuable feedback from several agents, I rewrote GRAVITY from scratch. That was one of the best--and hardest--decisions I ever made. I began querying again a few months after finishing that draft and ended up with multiple agent offers and an offer from Entangled. Lesson learned. :) So...want to see some of the rejections that helped shape GRAVITY?  Here ya go! ____________...