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Last Attempt at Links

Posted in Editing, Marketing, Querying, tagged on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Trying to empty my inbox before I move. Pick and choose what works for you … The big news last week was “Should you consider self-publishing?” Christian publishing house Thomas Nelson opened a self-publishing imprint called Westbow Press. Is this the future of publishing? If so, writers will have to put up a lot of [...]

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Belated Links

Posted in Marketing, Querying, Writing, tagged on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll be out of town for the next couple days, and then my parents are visiting this weekend. So in lieu of Topics and Frolics, I’ll leave you with an assortment of links to choose from. I’m way behind on sharing links and I need to clean out my stash. Sorry to overwhelm you, but [...]

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Week Links

Posted in Conferences, Querying, tagged , on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I wanted to share some links from this week while I clean out my inbox: An interesting post about typewriters and computers creating different types of writers. And yes, I occasionally wrote on my parents’ typewriter when I was a kid, though I preferred to write longhand. I think I was in junior high when [...]

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Writing a Synopsis

Posted in Querying, tagged , on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I sent my first-ever query letter to an agent.  I don’t know what I expected after I hit the “Send” button… fireworks, perhaps?  Confetti?  But the world didn’t stop, so I figured I should keep moving, too.  Still, I’m incredibly excited (and maybe a little nervous) to have finally reached this milestone.  I know [...]

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Rewriting Frolics

Posted in Editing, Querying, tagged , on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am done! At approximately 1 AM this morning, I finished rewriting EOL! Well, sort of. I sent the finished version to a couple people, so I’m hoping at least one of them will have time to read it over the weekend and offer some last-minute feedback. Most likely I’ll have to make a few [...]

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Frolicking Backwards

Posted in Book Reviews, Querying, tagged , , on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to the generous advice of a couple friends, my query letter now seems to be in decent shape. I can’t express how much I appreciate their help. Now if I only had a novel to query for. I suffered a setback this week. A friend kindly informed me of a problem with my manuscript. [...]

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Queries, Part Deux

Posted in Querying, tagged on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you’d like to discuss query letters, you’ve come to the right place. As promised last Friday, here is more information about the Excel spreadsheet I created to keep track of my querying process.  The headings I used across the top are: 1.  Agency 2.  Agent’s Name 3.  Address 4.  Email 5.  Website 6.  Include [...]

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Query Frolics

Posted in Querying, Writing, tagged , , , on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This was the most productive week I’ve had in a long time–in regards to writing, that is. It was not a productive week for cleaning the house or sleeping.  But really, those things are overrated.  Some of the credit goes to Jill, for babysitting my son so I could get some work done.  Thanks, Jill! [...]

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Quarrelsome Queries

Posted in Querying, tagged on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Over the weekend I spent a lot of time writing my query letter, though I probably should have been working on Book 1 edits.  I need to finish those; otherwise the query letter is pointless!  I’m both excited and apprehensive about editing.  Today I heard back from Marcy and Kim!  They gave me some fabulous [...]

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Planning to Frolic

Posted in Querying, tagged , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Since Tuesday’s dilemma, I’ve had a change of heart–based partly on the LiveJournal comments and partly on my own honest evaluation.  I know I had a lot of reasons for delaying the query process… but all the reasons involved my worries and zero self-confidence.  I don’t want to talk myself out of querying just because I’m [...]

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