Manuscript update: Terrible! Yesterday was the first day I have worked on my new book in two weeks. I’ve been busy with www.discdish.com. But, who am I kidding, I’ve also been just a little — ok a lot — intimidated by this story. My first two novels are plot-driven adventures, but this is a quiet…
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Manuscript update: Still nothing new as I’ve been too busy with www.discdish.com. But I’ve got lots of ideas for I get back to the book. Some quick agent news: Bree Ogden has been made an associate agent at Martin Literary Management. She will represent children’s, young adult and graphic novels. Here’s some info on Bree,…
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Manuscript update: Nothing new to report as I’ve been swamped with Disc Dish updates, but I hope to get working on my new book as soon as I’m done with this quick post. Some news from Publishers Weekly: Marcy Posner, formerly agent and foreign rights director at Sterling Lord Literistic, has joined Folio Literary Management…
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Manuscript update: I haven’t written anything yet today, but wanted to get this blog post up. Then it’s back to writing my story. Got some done, 486 words to be exact. I’m at 2,964 words out of 40K total. 37,036 left by the end of May. I need to write 714 a day. First, I…
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Manuscript update: I’m up to 2,480 words after writing yesterday and today. Gotta break now. My dog is complaining that she hasn’t been fed and walked. It’s like she has a clock in her belly. Just a quick post to say Writer’s Digest blogger Jane Friedman has compiled a great list of writing advice posts…
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Manuscript update: Nothing new to report yet as I haven’t had a chance to work on my new book since yesterday. But I wanted to share a link to a great interview with prolific mystery writer Sue Grafton (the alphabet series). In the Writer’s Digest article, Grafton explains that she finds writing hard with each…
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Manuscript update: 812 words so far today, including scraping what I did yesterday because it… well… sucked, and redoing it. 🙂 So, I’m starting my new book, and I’ve got the basic idea, the character, the rough layout and the ending. With all that in mind, I jumped in. Eight hundred words in, I started…
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Manuscript update: 291 words so far on my new book, and I hope to do more this afternoon, between loads of laundry. I wrote my second book in three months, so I’m setting a tentative goal of two months for this one. So, I hope to be done by June 1. I’ll keep you up…
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With query letters for my current manuscript out to some agents (I’ve had my first response and it was a request for the full — Yay!), I’ve been trying to catch up with some other work. After the DVD magazine I worked for was closed, a colleague of mine and I decided we’d start our…
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New agents trying to build their list are a great opportunity for writers seeking representation. The Rights Factory has announced that Ali McDonald is a new associate agent. She began at the agency in January 2009 in an editorial capacity. Focusing on young adult and middle-grade, Ali says: “The fantastic worlds of children’s literature transformed…
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