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  • Hi everyone! I recently joined the group and am exploring all it has to offer. I live and write in Atlanta. As a way of introduction, I figured I would post my first p...
  • That's a really helpful answer... I certainly don't want to come across as disingenuous.  I don't mind and even enjoy constructing a theme for a posting (if you want t...
  • Last reply by Sarah Pinneo
    Ladies-- I hope I'm doing this correctly----  sorry for posting in the wrong place before .    Anyway, I have recently completed my first novel and am trying to negoti...
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  • Lisa, I forgot to mention that I constructed a new blog for the sole purpose of putting information, stories, correspondance, recipes, etc. for my memoir. Not every th...
  • Lauren ~ What caught my attention is "...I hope that I don't sound too fake...shaping an obviously constructed narrative, but from pieces of my life that are hopefully...
  • Here's a pitch that I've been working on for my novel, The Other Side of 30: The Other Side of 30 is a story about a woman who, after what was supposed to be this one...
  • Tamara this is fun but hard. I had to really think about which parts of the story were most relevant to the plot. Robert Coover’s The Dead Queen is a bildungsroman of...
  • Dear Jackie,   I enjoyed reading the chapter, but I know what you mean - it does need some help.  Usually, as soon as a person opens a book, s/he knows immediately wha...
  •  Sarah, is this any closer? The Narrow Gate is a 57,000 word book club fiction spanning three generations of the Banfry’s, an Irish-Catholic family in Queens, New York...
  • Started by Ashley Leath
    Last reply by Ashley Leath
    Hi all, Below I've pasted the query letter I have mocked up for my recently completed YA contemporary novel. I'd love to have some feedback on it before I begin the qu...
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