I’ll be forgoing the actual question this weekend. My reason for that is here. Instead I’m posting a mock query letter and I hope any authors who stop by will check it out, give a quick comment on what you think works or doesn’t, what’s worked for you, etc. NOTE: I’m not asking for critique [...]
Archive | February, 2008
Snow, earbuds and query letters
Another foot of snow. That’s one good thing about being on winter break—we’re not getting dinged for yet another snow day. Scalzi has confessed to having non-earbud-friendly ears. It’s so nice not to be the only person who can’t pull off that hip and sleek earbud look. I have to use full headphones, dammit. I’ve [...]
Riding, Chapping and School Vacations
My beloved children are now officially on winter break. It’s only been two hours since the tall one should have been dropped off and one hour for the short one, and I’m already thinking this vacation will have a high attrition rate. The husband did manage to get me one free day, though. There’s a [...]
Weekend Question: To stet or not to stet
The question for this weekend is… Would telling my editor where to shove her red pen kill my career? She corrected my grammar and caught my typos and pointed out plot inconsistencies, but then she goes on to “suggest” rewrites that change sentence structure. She likes long flowery sentences and this is a romantic suspense. [...]
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