"Meg, great news! Congratulations! Now, on to query letters... do any of you know of or have a "query critique" group? I'm on my fourth draft of this bad boy and have recently had it picked apart by a prominent agent…"
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- Who I am:
- I've been a writer since I got my first diary with a lock at 13. Professionally, people actually paid me to write as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in the 1990s and then as a marketing exec. My memoir, "The Percussionist's Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal" comes out Aug. 27. I blog regularly at http://minnesotatransplant.wordpress.com/ and http://mindfulmonica.wordpress.com/ and I tweet semi-regularly as MNTransplant.
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- http://mindfulmonica.wordpress.com/
http://minnesotatransplant.wordpress.com/
Twitter: MNTransplant.
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- "The Percussionist's Wife"
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- N/A
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction, Memoir, Blog Posts
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- http//:minnesotatransplant.wordpress.com/
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Editing, short and long-form, with particular experience in websites and corporate communications.
- I found out about She Writes from:
- English Language Copywriter Subgroup on Linked In
Monica Lee's Blog
Interested in reviewing a memoir for a blog tour?
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:06am 0 Comments 0 Likes
When I was a marketing executive mingling in direct selling circles (think: Tupperware and Mary Kay), I heard a speaker once tell a crowd of salespeople that the secret to her success was “open your mouth.”
She didn’t have magic fliers or special gifts for hosts or exactly the right words to say, she just put herself out there and talked to people about the products and opportunity she had to offer (thanks, Lisa K.).
That’s how it is with promoting one’s book, too, I…
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Alison Kucich commented on the group 'Your First Novel'"Hello, writers! I'm looking for a "query critique" group... anyone know of one? I'm on my fourth draft of this bad boy and it still doesn't have the "special hook." I've taken a class, and had it…"
Niki Tulk commented on the group 'Novelists (Struggling or Not)'"Congratulations Meg!! That's fantastic!"
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Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here.
I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent. Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.
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