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  • It's really hard to be in waiting mode and I sympathize. It's something with which you really have no control and that kind of thing drives me crazy! :-) I'm waiting on my agent's rea...
  • Deb, thanks for your quick reply in the beginning. It was your advice that urged me to add more plot / conflict / wants of protag, and it all helped make the query bet...
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    I want to start featuring guest bloggers on my blog as a way to help spread the word about talented writers.  And I thought what better place to start, than here with...
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    Cedar Hawk Songmaker was born and lived all her life in Minneapolis. Yet she's never heard the music of ice breaking in the Mississippi River, and she’s seen just one...
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    Behind The Book American Family By Catherine Marshall-Smith “What a long strange trip it’s been,” pretty much sums up my experience writing American Family. What...
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    It was where movies stars used to go and rest up, be pamper...script their agents had just sent over. A series of modest bungalows set around a beau...setts. Back when his books didn’t sell or sold only modestly, they lived in a much sma...

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  • Not at ALL, Jenne. In fact, my "take" on current "traditional" publishing folks is that they LOOK to the self-published author -- who's also working her tale off to s...
  • Would someone care to define 'serious author'? Those two words are bandied about a lot. If by serious author you mean you wish to tag your work as literary fiction and...
  • This Twitter contest makes me think of something I learned long ago about pitching your business; it applies just the same for pitching and promoting a book. I used to...