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Colorful Rejections: Landing a Literary Agent
A strange, graffiti-mottled carousel I photographed in Buenos Aires, Argentina Life over the last week has been a stark contrast of, well, everything: there’s gorgeous, sunny weather outside (yay for...
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Writer Communities and the Power of the Web
Just a sample of She Writes members and contributors If you’re a writer and you’re anything like me, you probably spend a lot of time doubting yourself. Is this novel I’m pouring my soul into really...
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A Lesson for All Authors
Kiera Cass's agent Elana Roth, calling a reviewer of Cass's book a "bitch" on Twitter As a reviewer, I’ve experienced an author’s wrath first-hand. In my particular case, my negative book review...
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Interview with Kelly Hashway
Young adult novelist Kelly Hashway (author of the upcoming Touch of Death, SpencerHill Press January 2013) let me interview her last week about a number of important, burning topics. Most importantly,...
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Productive Stall
Work on the last stretch of The Aeronauts has stalled in the wake of bachelorette parties, book club (John Green’s Paper Towns), applying for a fellowship with Literary Arts, and chomping through Beth...
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A Treatise on Not Getting Yourself Down, and How To Be a Professional I am hyper-critical of my work–as in, critical to the point that I actually burst into tears during a revision of Fire &...
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WWC12 Wrap-up
This year’s Willamette Writers Conference 2012 was a startling success. I pitched to four agents and one publisher, and received from all of them requests for more. I attended sessions all three days...
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Query Hell: The Fastest Way to Madness
photo by fmgbain Each new query letter I write is like learning to ride a bike all over again, with the accompanying falling, scraping, and toddler-esque shrieks of frustration. I don’t think it will...
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How to Revise Your Novel – Pt. 3
Part 3: The Nitty-Gritties of Book Editing Urban Textures at Dawn by Steve A Johnson (Flickr) Yesterday’s post was about spicing up your manuscript to be more engaging. Today’s post is about...
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Oh, god, it’s time to write a query again?
Yep, it’s that time again–a new manuscript, a new query. For me, writing a query is a long, long process; one that usually begins while the manuscript I’m querying is still in the early stages (first...
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