Hi all! Just wanted to let you know that I'm moving. Well, not me personally. I'm staying right where I am. But my blog is moving. I still have a few boxes to unpack over the weekend in between work shifts (ie, I need to set up my blogroll and...

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I was doing my daily perusal of agent's blogs and learned--on PubRants--that children's editors are looking for: --voice and character driven fiction (isn’t that what all editors want?*) --a family-oriented story with complicated relationship...
Topics: publishing industry, ranting

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Back in the olden days, I used to go to bed early on turn-the-clock-back-an-hour night. I figured if the government was gonna give me an extra hour of sleep, I'd invest it and turn it into three. But this year I stayed up to write instead. I figured..
Topics: geekery, NaNoWriMo, writing

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I got an email this morning that cracked me up (figuratively speaking). It was from a lady who'd just finished reading Waiting For Spring . She wanted to know: "Were you high when you wrote the scene where Tess and Brian get stoned and get it on.
Topics: waiting for spring, writing

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Earlier today, I read (and thoroughly enjoyed, as I do all of her posts) Spy Scribbler's blog entry about (among other things) books we read over & over that "settle into our subconscious" and become a part of us. Meanwhile, Ms. Lynn Price..
Topics: writing

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