Category: Writing and Querying
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Querying – The Waiting Game
I’m an impatient person. I admit it. I’ve always been like this. I want results and I want them now. So the querying for an agent process has been rather frustrating for me. It’s a waiting game; the game nobody really likes to play. Here’s the conundrum: You send out a bunch of queries to…
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Querying: Blind Dating for an Agent
After years and years of people suggesting I write a book, I finally sat down to the computer and followed through. Not just once, but twice. Yes, I’ve written two novels. The first is a work of historical fiction based loosely upon my grandmother’s life. The second is a work of young adult fiction about…
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Query Ramblings
Recently I began querying the manuscripts for two novels I’ve written. At first I hated this process. You pour out your heart into your writing, then submit it to a select group of literary agents in hopes that one of them will snatch it up and say, “YES! I must have this!” Well, it doesn’t…
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It’s Pitch Madness Day! #PitMad
It’s Pitch Madness Day, and I’m so excited! What is Pitch Madness, you ask? It’s this incredibly fun game on Twitter, sponsored by a woman named Brenda Drake. Authors all over Twitter will pitch their novels to literary agents (and publishers?) in only the 140 characters allowed by Twitter. Holy buckets! YOU try explaining the…
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The Waiting is Painful
So I’ve finally done it: I’ve written a book! It’s not something I ever expected I’d really do; and – more than that – I never in a million years thought I’d write a book of fiction! But I’ve done it! The premise? It’s loosely based upon my father’s family during the 1930s Oklahoma Dust…
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