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More Links

Posted in Links on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In case I’m not on the internets this weekend (I’m trying to limit myself as part of a “stop rewarding the procrastination and get more work done” plan, seriously, I haven’t even posted pictures from VP yet), have a good Halloween everybody.
eBear (matociquala) discusses the progress of novel writing. Yeah, and all that.
Ken McConnell [...]

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More Links – the Agent (mostly) Version

Posted in Links on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Rachelle Gardner discusses the process of getting and agent from the agent side. Knowing both sides of the board can certainly help your chances of success.
Agents do more than sell books, a post form the BookEnds agency. Yes, and this is why you want an agent. Sure, there are some authors who do the whole [...]

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Links

Posted in Links on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Elmore Leonard spills his rules of writing. The subtitle sums it up, “Easy on the adverbs, exclamation points and especially hooptedoodle.” (Grokked from Astrid)
Justine Larbalestier muses on hating female characters. That’s an interesting ponderable.
And then there were two (Cat Valente sells Fairlyand for publication as a YA book). Two do not a trend make, [...]

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VP, the emotional side

Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m just getting back to normalcy, so I’m almost ready to start talking about it.
First rule of VP, what happens at VP stays at VP. It’s just like Vegas, but without the strippers. Or at least I didn’t see any strippers, I was working a lot. I did get to see jellyfish though. Glowing [...]

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Blog Storm Gathering

Posted in Mystery, Publishing on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So my challenge this month is to write as many posts as possible across as many of my blogs as possible about the release of my latest novel. The idea is to spark a perfect storm of interest in the novel and in the author. I have decided to serialize the novel on [...]

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Writerly Linkee-poo

Posted in Links on October 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Staffordshire Hoard Flickr set. I love stuff like this. It gets my hack and slash geekery on. Of course, this year’s gift of choice for the little curtain pee-ers? Metal detectors! I expect to see a few hundred of those things in garage sales next year. (link grokked from Making Light).
Justine Larbalestier pontificates on [...]

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