When I sold my first book to a major publishing house years ago, two other published authors had the same name. One of them added her middle name to differentiate. I h...
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Kamy, I don't think you made a mistake at all by bringing up these issues they way you did & letting us all have a voice. Things aren't always peachy-keen in any c...
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Hi, Patricia!
Thank you for sharing your logline! Here's what I'd suggest:
Start with: "Mixed Messages, the first novel in my *** series, is a..." Okay, for the ***,...
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Lots of good industry info, but as someone who is an events director at an independent bookstore I take a bit of issue with the attitude you assume we have toward even...
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Julie Jeffs and Jenne --
I'm a little confused by your posts. What specifically would you be looking for from more established writers? I'm solidly in the emerging wr...
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I have always been a proponent of writing a complete draft before beginning to revise, in part to keep a sense of the story's totality and structure, and also so as no...
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The American so-called “democratic” so-called “election” has shocked and stunned the world. I too have found this bizarre turn of history beyond my...
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Kamy, I know that you and I have already had some conversation about question 3, and I still see no good, clear answer. As other commenters have pointed out, the inter...
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A few more thoughts...@Catherine thanks for bringing up the issue of foreign editions -- the title changes for those can be so illuminating. And I wish I knew more ab...
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I have to agree with Jane. Regardless of your publishing status, all of us continue to grow an...ect of emerging or established comes up, I seem to always err on the side of not being "est...
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