Fun Five: Mindi Scott

Nov 24, 2011 by shanyn

Fun Five
Mindi Scott

Author of Freefall

1. What is your favorite winter accessory?
I’m definitely a scarf girl. They’re pretty and serve as wonderful neck blankets!

2. How many movies do you watch in a typical month?
Maybe one. I prefer television series and can rarely sit through a movie these days.

3. Where is your nearest umbrella?
About ten feet from me, mixed in with my basket of scarves. (Incidentally, I live near Seattle, but rarely use an umbrella. The wind turns umbrellas inside out, so I don’t bother.)

4. Tell us about your last shopping spree.
I haven’t been very spree-ish lately, but I did get new jeans the other day.

5. What color are your kitchen walls?
Er. White. But I do have more interesting colors in other rooms!

About Freefall:
How do you come back from the point of no return?

Seth McCoy was the last person to see his best friend, Isaac, alive, and the first to find him dead. It was just another night, just another party, just another time when Isaac drank too much and passed out on the lawn. Only this time, Isaac didn’t wake up.
Convinced that his own actions led to his friend’s death, Seth is torn between turning his life around . . . or losing himself completely.

Then he meets Rosetta: so beautiful and so different from everything and everyone he’s ever known. But Rosetta has secrets of her own, and Seth soon realizes he isn’t the only one who needs saving . . .

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From MindiScott.com:
After a few false starts with other manuscripts, I enrolled in a MediaBistro Young Adult Novel writing class and began a new project, The Fake McCoy (later Scratching at the 8-Ball, and later still Freefall). This story took over my life and I spent 18 months writing and revising it for 20 to 50 hours a week. This time when it was ready, I sent it to agents with the hope that I’d get representation in my first or second round of queries. Instead, after another nine months and 75 rejections (what are the odds of that happening twice?) I felt defeated, like I’d wasted my time, like this writing-to-get-published venture might not be worth all the pain.

I decided to do one more revision in December 2008 and sent out more queries. It was my last shot with this manuscript before I would put it away forever. To my surprise and amazement, Jim McCarthy offered representation January 6, 2009 (the day after requesting and receiving it) and sold the book to Simon Pulse that May. Freefall was released in October 2010, and I couldn’t be happier!