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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Hartwig on August 16, 2011 at 11:13am

Hey all, I voted for Cassandra Dunn's micro-fiction entry here; she's got a great opening line worth a read. Here's the link: her's is on the first line (or was). 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s​/GB2Q87S

Permalink Reply by Deborah Armstrong on August 16, 2011 at 11:52am

I voted, too. Great opening lines.

Permalink Reply by Cassandra Dunn on August 16, 2011 at 3:07pm

Thanks, Cynthia!

Permalink Reply by Emily Kennedy on August 16, 2011 at 12:59pm

Hello!  I am writing to you from my studio/office on my farm in Tennessee.  Besides being a writer, I am an artist, shell designer, freelance photo stylist, and gardener.  I am currently working on a myriad of projects and forcing myself to send queries for my first novel, Waking Sleeping Dogs.  I have had a handful of rejections over the past year and a half, but have gotten terrific feedback from agents and have tightened up my writing as a result.  The last agent who read my manuscript said that the market for fiction is so tight nowadays that it is almost impossible to sell it to publishers.  But, she added, she is enormously interested in a proposal for a non-fiction book I mentioned to her off the cuff.  I will get that proposal to her pronto, but I am not giving up on my First.  I believe in it more so now than ever.  And, I just read that The Help was rejected 45+ times over the five years Kathryn Stockett tried to sell it, so I happily trudge on.  Kudos to SheWrites for giving non-published authors a chance to work with an agent!

Permalink Reply by Brenda McClain on August 16, 2011 at 2:56pm

Hello Folks!  Bren McClain here from the hills of Tennessee, where I am looking out my window at a baby deer wanting to play with some crows that are eating the corn I left out for the baby's mother.  The baby is hopping around, wanting to play, but the crows have just taken to the skies.  No playmate today!

I am hard at work on a novel that feels like the work of my life.  It's called One Good Mama Bone and is about Sarah Creamer's journey to be the mother she's always wanted to be, despite what Sarah's mother told her when she was a girl of six. Proving her mother wrong and setting herself on new course is due to a most unlikely source, a mother cow that comes to live on Sarah's farm and provides the lessons she's waited for her whole life. 

Thanks for the opportunity, Kamy and SheWrites, for all of us unpublished novelists to have a shot. 

Wishing us all the very best!

Bren

 

Permalink Reply by Natylie Baldwin on August 16, 2011 at 2:58pm

Hi Brenda,

Being an animal lover, I'm totally curious about your story :) 

Good luck!

Natylie

Permalink Reply by Brenda McClain on August 16, 2011 at 3:06pm

Cool, Natylie.  Thanks!  I always love connecting with another animal lover.  You write about animals, too? 

And good luck with yours, too!

Brenda

 

 

Permalink Reply by Natylie Baldwin on August 16, 2011 at 3:15pm

Thanks, Brenda.  Actually, I haven't really included animals much in my novel in which the natural setting (Mt. Shasta area in Northern California) plays a prominent role -- I've mostly focused on scenery, trees and plants.  But now that I think about it, I should consider featuring some animal life. 

Thank you for inspiring the insight!

Natylie

Permalink Reply by Brenda McClain on August 16, 2011 at 3:19pm

You are most welcome, Natylie.  I write about what I care about, what opens my heart -- and that's animals.  It's helped me keep my butt in the chair -- and, I think, improved my writing, too.  What's your novel about?  Bren

Permalink Reply by Natylie Baldwin on August 16, 2011 at 3:47pm

My novel synopsis is:

Set in a small town near Mt. Shasta, California, this is the story of a twelve year old boy who is being neglected by his grieving mother after the death of his father.  He finds unexpected refuge in an eccentric drunk who lives in a trailer on the edge of town and tends a makeshift garden.   Their unlikely friendship leads to an unexpected turn of events in the town. 

Permalink Reply by Brenda McClain on August 16, 2011 at 3:58pm

Love it, Natylie!  I would love to read that.  You've got some elements that I love -- a child and the eccentric person!  I wish you all the very best!

Permalink Reply by Renee Canter Johnson on August 16, 2011 at 3:35pm

Thanks for the opportunity to submit an excerpt from one of my novels.  I am like a bat - working in the dark - no agent or publisher and three novels in boxes.  I'm comfortable with people seeing my non-fiction articles, but fiction says something about the inner workings of a mind.  Could be scary - just saying! 

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