Well, it's official: I've fired off Query Letters to 4 agents and I'm cooking several more (though I need a killer synopsis for the rest, and the synopsis is still an alien creature to me ( Read more... )

Well, I've taken the paltry leverage that Teddy Bears and Tea Parties's Nebula votes have afforded me and converted it into a few introductions and approaches to more established writers that I already knew vaguely in passing ( Read more... )

Lit Agent Rachel Gardener has an interesting post today about the subjectivity of the publishing biz, including a list of famous rejections that nowadays seem silly. She talks specifically about how agents and indusrty react, but in the comments there is also discussion about how little of the %age of population you need to have a best seller -- ( Read more... )

Cat Rambo has a great post about publicity.

I think I will be taking her advice. :)

Feedback came in and I sank myself deep into synopsis work from around 5pm to 10pm.

Definitely a learning experience.
( How-to-write-a-synopsis research links below cut )

Well, since I have a paid/pro sale now I feel a little bit more like a real writer than before. I am sorely tempted to buy a "rename token" and change the name of the journal to something more closely linked to writing ( Read more... )

I'm proud to say my buddy Mark and I (aka "Ninja Mime Games") have just received the first shipment of our first card game, "TriO(tm): Tic-Tac-Toe Gone WILD!"

What is TriO? (forgive the quick advertisement ( Read more... )

But good on the writing front. Sent out 6 short stories, one submission each. For those of you familiar with my line-up, here's a keyword description of the stories that got sent out (I'm superstitious about using full titles ( Read more... )

Ran into an outsourcer online that might help us.

I still need to do a lot more math and make a few profit projections, but this might just be doable. Or at least it might be a way to get the ball rolling.

Everything happens at once, I tell ya.

http://aaupwiki.princeton.edu/index.php/Book_Publishing_Accounting:_Some_Basic_Concepts