getting published | getting published
Apr.06.2009
As I delve deeper into the path of publication, I’ve encounter many different conclusions. One of which is that my writing sucks.
Okay, maybe not so harshly put, but as I tried to desperately prepare the best damn query letter and synopsis possible, I struggled so much that I realized my skill...
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Mar.28.2009
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Wong, Nellie, Breakfast Lunch Dinner [2012]
Ginzberg, Vilma, I Don't Know How to Do This [2011]
Cozart, Nicole, Heartstrings [2010] Khattab, Debra Grace, When the Phoenix Died [2010] McCarty, Terry,...
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Jan.28.2009
So here I am, five weeks away from the launch of my book on that auspicious date of 03/03/09.
I’ve managed to make it this far without getting too worked up. For the past few months I’ve been in a kind of blissful, ain’t life grand frame of mind: I’m healthy, I’m in love, I’ve got a book coming out...
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Jan.15.2009
Today's post isn't meant to discourage anyone; I'm just stating the cold, hard truth about writing that anyone who's ever sat down to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard already knows. Writing is hard work, it's lonely work, and a lot of the time it's unappreciated and misunderstood work....
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Nov.30.2008
Performing artists like actors and comedians know that timing is everything. Without the right pause, the right word, the right gesture, the piece falls apart.
Life too is all about timing. Turn a corner and bump into a stranger who will become your mate. Run back into the house to answer the phone...
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Nov.26.2008
When you want to be published, one of the things you need to do is grow a thick skin. I'm still working on that part, but I'm getting there. Or as I've heard it said: "Trade your skin for rhino hide."
The need for a thick skin doesn't start when you're trying to get an agent, or your...
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Nov.08.2008
An odd thought struck me this morning: what if people actually like my books? Over the past few years, I've racked up hundreds of rejections. I told myself the agents and editors were only rejecting my query letters, because what else could they be rejecting? None of the agents and editors I sent...
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Aug.08.2008
See my blog about my 12-year journey to publication at http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/
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Jun.04.2008
Today on LitPark.com,meet Xujun Eberlein, a tremendous writer and social commentator, who has just published her first book, Apologies Forthcoming. This collection of short stories features relationships that are complicated by China's Cultural Revolution: lovers who can't be together, a family...
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Mar.23.2008
The reason I attended the Maui Writers Conference that year was not because I’d dutifully saved my money, planned ahead, and was finally ready to put myself out there after years of hiding behind my fear of being rejected in a noble effort to publish my yet-to-be-written memoir. No, the real...
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