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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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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Tricia Richmond has a great blog carnival of posts on children’s books today on her The Miss Rumphious Effect blog. The post has so much good stuff, like a post on ideas for reading with expression when reading to young kids, a post on snack and craft ideas to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday (cool!), lots…
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Query update: Done! After about 20+ versions of my story pitch, I have one I’m happy with. I’ll start submitting tomorrow. And, then I’m going to start my next book. I know which idea I’m going to move on with, and at the same time, I’m going to start researching one of my other ideas.…
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Revision update: On chapter 21/22 out of 30. I got chapter 21 done yesterday but wasn’t truly satisfied with it, nor the beginning of chapter 22. Then at the end of the day, when I was walking our dog (a great time to think), I figured out what I think is a solution. So I’ll…
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Revision update: On chapter 21 of 30. I had a productive weekend, and I hope to continue and be done in a few days. This will definitely be my last revision before I submit, but the question of when to submit a manuscript, when to know it’s done, always leaves me a bit nervous. I…
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Thanks for all the great questions you submitted to Bonnie Hearn Hill. Bonnie said she loved the questions and that they are her best yet! Today, I’ve got her answers. A quick reminder, Bonnie is the author of the new young adult Star Crossed series, starting with Aries Rising, released earlier this month. The book…
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First off, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hope you get your fill of green beer today. Next, manuscript update: I’m midway in chapter 8 or 30 chapters. So far, this polish is pretty much what I suspected, which is good. I’ve caught a few bad word choices and a few typos, but nothing major that I…
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I just read a great post on Elana Johnson‘s blog: Stop the Violins. In honor of this bumper sticker Elana saw, she is vowing to stop whining. I think this is awesome, and I vow to do the same. For the past week, I’ve been caught up with lots of other projects — including my…
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On a Yahoo group I’m a member of, someone asked about advice on the ending of their book and said they were thinking of moving away from one particular direction because in the current political climate, no one will want to read a book like that. I thought it was a good reminder to me…
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