I found TOR's submission requirements. It involves a brief query letter (Thank you to all those who looked at my first attempt for me - After looking at some online sources, and realizing I shouldn't synopsize in the query letter itself, I think I can make a good and quick one.), the first three chapters (by the time you've completed Chapter 2 of ( Read more... )

I think I've gone blind. I can't find them.

Okay, so I think I have something that may actually work for a query letter for Crimson Mask. So take a look at it and please critique it as honestly as possible. Please keep in mind that query letters are the LAST place you should be trying to spare my feelings.

Dear Agent,

I am seeking representation for my novel, The Crimson Mask, complete at ( Read more... )

I think this may be my new guilty pleasure. I love this show, I just can't help it!

Does anyone know of an easy, intuitive, web-page editor? I was going to try to use WordPress, but it's proven to be counter-intuitive and way to convoluted to be of any use. Is there a good, open source one (or cheap one) that anyone knows of?

Edit: A good Web-Design FAQ might be useful as well.

Posting two days in a row? My god, what is this world coming to?

Anyway, reannon posted this today. The short version is that fantasy and science-fiction readership is up right now. And while I'm not an urban-fantasy writer *, I am a fantasy writer. A fantasy writer, in fact, that has a dark, pseudo-other culture fantasy novel that it seems is in right ( Read more... )

So currently about three-fourths of the way through the edits on Crimson Mask. Upon completing them I will, hopefully, have the penultimate draft ready and will only have a few minor tweaks here and there until I have the official "Final." Then I'll have no way to procrastinate working on the query letter or the synopsis, which I would honestly ( Read more... )

The major plot shift I mentioned a few weeks back I was planning on applying to Crimson Mask completely derailed a scene shortly following it. This wasn't exactly a surprise, but it's been frustrating trying to write it and I constantly feel that the new scene is lacking. No drama, no poetry, no real strength to it. It's gotten better as I've ( Read more... )

So I'm borrowing internet from Sherlock's Books , an AWESOME independent books and everything else you can imagine (and some you can't) store, who was kind enough to host Sara's first signing for Convent of the Pure. So far, they've been incredible hosts and this is definitely a store that you should check out, if you are ever in the area.

And the Hewlett Packard AMD Machine loses by a knock-out in the first round.

Apparently, this is old news, but my chronic refusal to patch my machines saved me a lot of trouble - for about a year.

Anyway, the short version is that Windows SP3 causes an HP Pavilion running an AMD processor to go into an infinite reboot loop. This is what was killing ( Read more... )