One of the submissions I have out is to Dream Agent #1. Dream Agent #2 asked for the full today (also a resubmit). This brings the total manuscripts out up to 7 ( Read more... )

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I don't think I've ever asked for advice for this on my blog before.  Would you let me know how this grabs you - or if it doesn't?  While I've had some interest, I'd really like to drum up some more.  Thanks so much!

Sixteen-year-old Lovey James is a typical teenager; her small coastal town bores her, she's fallen for the new guy in school, she ( Read more... )

Wow, Query Shark has been rippin' em some serious new ones lately...and they deserve it.  Reading the queries agents get I wonder why the profession doesn't have the highest suicide rate.  Thank heavens for entry #75.

GAH! How am I supposed to choose from all the incredible workshops offered at RWA at the same time? Craft and career workshops tempt me at every turn. Which to choose? Advice on blogging/marketing/web presences, or how to layer your story/create voice/write in first person. I'm hyperventilating over it. Is anyone going? I would dearly love to meat ( Read more... )

Rejection from Stefanie von Borstel after reading the partial.  She said she liked the concept, but felt it needed to be geared more toward teenagers.

This is classic.  In college when I wrote the short story that became Ada, my creative writing class asked if it was written for children.  Here I was trying to write something that I thought was on ( Read more... )

Why does everybody keep asking me if I'm okay?  They look at me and say, "Are you all right?  You look kinda tired."  I'm not keeping a schedule that's any different from normal!!1!  I'm sorry people, I don't have an explanation for why I look like hell.  This is me.  Get used to it.

On a cheerier note.  I don't think I mentioned Jessica Regel asked ( Read more... )

Okay, here's a topic...does the advice that everyone "stick with it" really apply to everyone who wants to be a writer?....discuss amongst yourselves.

Here's the deal.  Are there some people that just really don't have what it takes to be a writer?  Or should everyone keep querying indefinitely?  Is it realistic that we keep encouraging each other ( Read more... )

Ann Behar sent me the best rejection yet (oxymoron, I know).   It is so helpful to even get a few sentences of personalized feedback.  Unfortunately, her comments confirmed my nagging suspicion: a major editing and plumping is due.

Sigh.