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New Chapter
I've been fiddling around more with creating a more interesting reading experience for my sample chapters using an informative sidebar to introduce characters or discuss something about the novel. Here's a link to my effor for chapter one of my suspense novel Deadworld. novel, suspense, sample chapterquery writing
Query writing sucks. No two ways about it. Funny how easy it is to give feedback on other's queries, but when it comes to your own, every thing you write sounds utterly blah. More amusing that the basics of queries are pretty simple. Structurally they aren't difficult at all. Easy peasy. Yeah, right. Nothing, to me anyway, points out more vividly ( Read more... )query contest
I had a fun idea about how to educate people about the difficulties agents have going through the slush pile every day to find worthwhile writing to request. I sent it along to super agent, Nathan Bransford, who was fabulous enough to create a 'agent for a day' contest. Go on over and participate (assuming you have actually found my blog in time), ( Read more... )book length
Interesting post at Brandon Sanderson's blog about his herculean efforts to finish off the Wheel of Time series for all of those obsessed Jordan fans out there. How often does one get a contract with a 200k minimum word count? I found that rather amusing given today's efforts by Publishers thanks to booksellers to put thinner books on the shelves. ( Read more... )Bleh
The flu. It sucks, and I have it. Bleh all the way around. To top it off, been having to finish up my school term while enduring said blehness. Have an essay to revise tomorrow. Bleh. Did I say it sucks? Could I whine any more? Sure, but too tired. Going to watch Life on Mars and go to bed.our place in the universe
I love astronomy. I used to out in the summer time and star gaze with my telescope that now collects dust in the back room, and I still plan to some day take the hobby up again, but the subject continues to and always will fascinate me. It's a humbling science. The sense of smallness one gets when gazing through the telescope, of just how vast the ( Read more... )getting free stuff
Read in the RWA newsletter today about a document sharing sight called scribd. It's a place where people can upload pretty much any kind of document they want and share it with the world. The article was about the concerns with copyright infringement, as they have had issues with people putting up books and such without authorization, but it ( Read more... )Virtualcon
Was reading a post by Lynn Viehl over at genreality about the availability of free learning for writers, and the fact that many cannot afford some of the ridiculously priced conferences and retreats that are available out there, and it got me to wondering if there was anything out there online that matched the content of an entire conference. Not ( Read more... )school winding down
My school term has entered crunch time. I have a dozen assignments to get done in the next two weeks. Procrastination at its finest! I swear, I would be in the running for any contest in this regard. I hate to think how this will play out if and when I sell and get another book to do on deadline. No clue how I will function under such pressures. In ( Read more... )the ebook market
le'sigh...one of these days someone will post a reply. Wish I had a prize for whomever that wonderful person might be ( Read more... )