Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like. I found an article at Associated ContentContinue reading “Writing an E-Mail Query Letter to a Literary Agent”
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Writing an E-Mail Query Letter
Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like. I found an article at Associated ContentContinue reading “Writing an E-Mail Query Letter”
From Idea to Bookstore
This may be just a tad tongue-in-cheek. I love the footage of the trees being cut for the paper.
Synecdoche
In case you missed it, there’s an interesting post on edittorent on the film, Synecdoche. Alicia makes some interesting points that a writer needs to be mindful of. 1. “Art isn’t life… Life is about living. Art is about selection, conflict, focus.” 2. For art, “[a]udience makes meaning.” No audience, no meaning.
Hello 2009
I thank JA Konrath with providing a list of resolutions for writers that I could edit for my 2009 resolutions: I will finish revising the damn book. I will start on the next book. I will listen to criticism. I will update my website. I will master the query process and find an agent. IContinue reading “Hello 2009”
Twilight Deconstructed
Okay, we’ve had our joke and poked fun at Stephenie Myer’s Twilight . Well, like the da Vinci Code, it works. Theories? Eve Porinchak over at The Disco Mermaids deconstructs Twilight. It’s all about tapping emotions, isn’t it?
Hook ’em Danno
Think about how you are drawn into a book and then the story—especially by an author you’re not familiar with. Perhaps you saw a book review, perhaps you heard how good it was from a friend, or perhaps when you walked into the bookstore (or Costco) you saw the book on a table. First, youContinue reading “Hook ’em Danno”
Hook 'em Danno
Think about how you are drawn into a book and then the story—especially by an author you’re not familiar with. Perhaps you saw a book review, perhaps you heard how good it was from a friend, or perhaps when you walked into the bookstore (or Costco) you saw the book on a table. First, youContinue reading “Hook 'em Danno”
Mephistophelian?
Look, selling books is a business. No different from selling cars. Novel Adventures may simply be another way to place a product, in this case, Saturn cars, it looks like fun and may get people reading. Daphne Zuniga stars in the webisodes. Four female friends will take off on adventures inspired by classic novels. TheyContinue reading “Mephistophelian?”
Cassius, is that an ides of March in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Why wasn’t I taught this in high school? I may come to enjoy Shakespeare. Finally, a book about what we all think about constantly, namely sex. At least most guys do, Lexi Revellian on her blog differs a bit with this in Men and women, sex and writing… … men appear entranced by the mechanicsContinue reading “Cassius, is that an ides of March in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Nullius in Verba 