The Kinglet had a THING today, leaving me free for my first real coffee office in months. I took the opportunity to work on my query for TO THE TOUCH, which I realize now was all too vague in its first incarnation. This leaves me with the conundrum of just how UN-vague to make it, as agents love to advise, on the subject of novel queries, 1) ( Read more... )

I decided to sort the Kinglet's bookshelf into types of books - as opposed to size, like it always has been - so we could start addressing some of the talking-points in reading/literacy educational standards... for example, "this is a picture book, this is fiction, this is non-fiction, this is a poem ( Read more... )

http://kidlitdotcom.livejournal.com/109868.html

It's like saying "I am wary of endings because so many writers do them badly."

Really? So we should all just leave everything with a cliff-hanger because the LCD ruined it for the rest of us?