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WoTF???
I emerge from the grave this July 4th, because a) it's a holiday and I suddenly have time to check/post on LJ; and b) to let everyone formally know that a story of mine has been named a finalist in the 2nd Quarter 2009 Writer's of the Future Contest! I have to say, I'm fairly bursting with happiness about it-- it's extremely cool to be a finalist; ( Read more... ) -
Query-Aid
I emerge from the billowing mists of Work/Life to turn your eyes briefly to something special: Nathan Bransford's Agent for A Day Contest. This is really fantastic-- Nathan Bransford has posted/is posting 50 real queries throughout the day with 3 real published authors' queries hidden somewhere within, and your job is to find the three amongst the ( Read more... ) -
The Forest of Hands and Teeth is Here....
The Forest of Hands and Teeth is out on shelves now! Why don't you have a copy yet? Why, I ask? Quit lollygagging, go get it now!
I see you still lollygagging! Go! Shoo!
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Book Launch:30!
Two days until The Forest of Hands and Teeth officially hits shelves! I don't know if it's gauche to shamelessly pimp your significant other's book, but let's be honest, I don't know from tact to begin with so I would do it even if I did know it was gauche. I have watched this book go from being a shy little idea in carrie_ryan 's mind to be the amazing thing ( Read more... ) -
A Brief Memo to the World (and the Legal World In Particular)
Dear all,
The word "insure" means "to guarantee against loss or harm." The word "ensure" means "to make sure or certain." Thus, when you "insure" something, you agree to make someone whole for a loss. When you "ensure" it, you make sure it happens. The words are not interchangeable. Unless you are dealing with insurance, you almost always want the ( Read more... ) -
Is a Bad Story Art?
Imagine this: a young man, disaffected with life and its thousand daily stings, channels that raw emotion into a work of imagination. He dreams up a world where all the little cruelties of modern life are given a concrete form, where hope becomes a personified, unstoppable force, and where the future is a shining jewel whose mysteries, good and ill ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Group
So the other day, I wrote a story and even polished it up a little. Yay! And that’s when it occurred to me that in the last year of novel work, I have completely and totally lost all of my critiquing connections. Of course I still have my vaunted First Reader, and brother-man JED, to both of whom I am eternally grateful, but I used to frequent ( Read more... ) -
A Call to Arms
On Tuesday, I spent all day knocking on doors. Metal doors, wooden doors, doors peeling with paint, doors that creaked and shuttered when I banged on them until I was scared I might knock them down. Sometimes there were people behind those doors, more often not, more often we just left little paper hangers that said “Vote TODAY-- Obama ( Read more... ) -
A Time for Pride
I planned on writing a voting post about why I support Obama, but at this point, it's all down to the numbers. And I am extremely tired. Spent all day canvassing, knocking on doors, making phone calls, etc. It truly is amazing seeing so many people so excited, many of them voting for the first time, many of them excited about politics for the first ( Read more... )