Blog Archive
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Workshop Wednesday
Feb 22, 2012
Thanks to all of your contributions, Workshop Wednesday has been a success. We’re going to continue on with it for as long as we have entries and the energy to comment on them. If you haven’t yet submitted but are still interested, don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. […]
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Typos in Queries
Feb 21, 2012
Many times on Workshop Wednesdays typos are pointed out by fellow writers in the comments, and rightfully so: making your query and your manuscript as clean as possible is important. However, recently one commenter pointed out a typo in the first line and asked, “Would a typo in the first line not make you want […]
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Twitter Tips
Feb 20, 2012
I love getting book recommendations. I mean face it, I’m a book person, I love to read and I love it when someone emails me or sends me a Tweet to tell me about something new they have just discovered. That being said, there’s a big difference between Tweeting about your book release and spamming […]
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Working with Your Agent
Feb 16, 2012
I’m often asked what makes the “perfect client,” and the only answer I have is a great sense of communication. The desire to keep me posted on all things good and bad so that if something can be done (even if you don’t know it can) I can jump in and do it. One thing […]
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Workshop Wednesday
Feb 15, 2012
Thanks to all of your contributions, Workshop Wednesday has been a success. We’re going to continue on with it for as long as we have entries and the energy to comment on them. If you haven’t yet submitted but are still interested, don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. […]
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Feb 14, 2012
I have to admit, this is one of my favorite holidays. Who doesn’t love the idea of a celebration of love and friendship? For Valentine’s Day this year I wanted to change things up a little, and thanks to my public library I came up with this terrific idea. Okay, I stole this terrific idea. […]
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Choosing a Genre
Feb 13, 2012
I have written a novel where the main POV character is around 18 years old. There’s also a secondary POV character who’s 45 years old. This secondary character takes up almost as much page space as the younger character. It’s maybe a 60-40 split. There’s a mystery involved, and while the younger character gets involved […]
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Debut women’s fiction deal!
Feb 13, 2012
Lorrie Thomson’s EQUILIBRIUM, about a woman who, along with her two teenaged children, is trying to pick up the pieces a year after her husband committed suicide, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Jessica Alvarez at BookEnds.
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Updated Publishing Dictionary
Feb 09, 2012
It’s become an ever-popular post, my Publishing Dictionary. This is the fourth version I’ve done. Some of the words and definitions remain the same, but at your requests there have been a number of additions. For those who have been regular readers of the blog, I apologize for the repetition. But just like any good […]
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Workshop Wednesday
Feb 08, 2012
Thanks to all of your contributions, Workshop Wednesday has been a success. We’re going to continue on with it for as long as we have entries and the energy to comment on them. If you haven’t yet submitted but are still interested, don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. […]
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Why Agents Edit
Feb 07, 2012
my AGENT and I have just gone through this process (from a Blog post on Stages of Editing) up through lines – revisions early on and now just finished line edits. I know that a publisher’s editor will edit too, but I’m wondering if my agent only did this because SHE was an editor too? […]
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Ellery Adams on Being a Coauthor
Feb 06, 2012
Lucy Arlington Buried in a Book Publisher: Berkley Pub date: February 2012 Agent: Jessica Faust (Click to Buy) Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Coauthor? by Ellery Adams – ½ of the Lucy Arlington Writing Team Ellery Queen, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, David and Leigh Eddings, Frances […]
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