Thanks to all for your best wishes during my crazy move. (We should be finally getting settled at the end of this week. Phew!) And thanks to all the commenters on the great guest post from editor Sherri Woosley. Sherri is giving away a copy of her Coffee House Fiction 2009 Anthology, and the lucky…
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Huge apologies for not being around. I’m still busy moving house, and my brain is fried with a bunch of things. But I keep thinking about all the things I want to write on here… then don’t get around to doing it. Lame, I know. I’ll be back really soon. But today, Sherri Cook Woosley…
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The New York Times reported on a new Kurt Vonnegut library that’s going to open in Indianapolis in the fall, and my favorite part of the article is a quote from his oldest daughter, Edie Vonnegut, who said, “We have boxes of rejection letters, letters saying, ‘You have no talent and we suggest you give…
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One says goodbye; many more say helloooo! Today is literary agent Colleen Lindsey‘s last day at Fine Print Literary Management and last day as an agent, and she will be missed. But she has written a great post on her blog about her departure, detailing everything she has been doing to make sure her clients…
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No writing update because … I’m ashamed to say I still haven’t been writing. My move has been taking it out of me. But my need to write has been tugging at me in the last week more than any other time this past month or so, and my novel’s character keeps knocking on my…
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Manuscript update: Current word count is 13,842. It’s coming along. A new young adult/middle grade writers group has started up in my area, and I went to my first meeting last Saturday and will definitely be going back. The second meeting of the new group, Saturday’s was focused on prioritizing techniques so we can all…
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One of the things I love best about this industry is how people come together to help others. Earlier today, I posted about some writerly auctions going on to raise money for diabetes research. Now I’ve got another for you. A bunch of writers have organized an auction to raise funds for flood relief in…
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Manuscript update: I’m at 4,276 words and need to write 1,000 words a day to make my goal of finishing by the end of May. Onward… I’m catching up on some blog reading — when I should be working on that 1,000 words for my book — and I found Cec Murphy‘s first two posts…
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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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