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Mar.02.2009
Yesterday I read with great interest the comments of an editor for Scribners where she said one of her pet peeves is authors that submit short story collections that, "aren't really a book. They're not a cohesive whole...There's no vision to the whole thing that makes me feel like this person ...
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Feb.28.2009
Just a short post today to mention that I received my ARCs of The Third Sign on Friday (and without a whole lot of fanfare, sitting right next to the shipment of our dog's food, of all things...who says the author's life isn't glamorous?), and it was a lot more fun opening the box than I thought it...
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Feb.27.2009
This my friends is my cover:
Ain't it fucn awesome? My publisher truly rocks... and so does Anina at Stenvert who did the art work.
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Feb.20.2009
From Poets & Writers comes this telling article. We're a community, we writers and editors and agents, and we WILL ride this out. Very few of us, let's face it, are in it just for the money.
If the economic Tilt-A-Whirl of the past few months has proven anything, it's that this carnival life...
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Feb.16.2009
For the last four months there has been a lot of talk about how badly the publishing industry is doing. Mostly we hear about how publishers are losing money, how hard it is for agents to place manuscripts, and how authors are being abandoned by those who were their champions. What we don’t hear...
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Feb.15.2009
It's only around four hours since I left the Mark Hopkins Hotel atop Nob Hill after spending three very intense days at the 2009 San Francisco Writer's Conference, attending workshops, networking, taking in keynote talks from established writers, enjoying great meals, and getting feedback from...
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Feb.15.2009
This is the beginning of the story of an autobiography, from when it was accepted ( months ago) to the time when it will be published ( some months from now). The working title is Undue Process but I have decided I don't like that anymore and am going to change it back to Excessomania. Because that...
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Feb.14.2009
From Heidi MacDonald's comics blog in PW Weekly:
Another major magazine distributor has joined Anderson News in raising its rates to distribute magazine copies to newsstands by seven cents — regardless of whether the magazines sell or not, according to the Post. Publishers have resisted, but now...
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Feb.13.2009
Will the E-book replace ink and paper books?
No.
However, get used to seeing E-books share retail space along with a 1,500 page War and Peace. Portable electronic books are not about to invade the business or consumer world quickly as the Internet, cell phone, and PDA which have complicated...
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Feb.12.2009
Just as before, the gestation of my novel ICE SONG, drags on. Here I am practically filled to bursting, pregnant with anticipation and anxious for birthing. Just like the morning-after-delivery moment when you first wake up and realize there is a stranger living in the house, I anticipate the May...
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