Tag: books
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Querying: Those Danged Rejections!
As an artist — whether that be a writer, painter, or even a musician — I don’t think there’s anything harder than the process of asking for “approval” from an agent. And, really, that’s what the querying process is; it’s submitting your hard work to a select group of people and asking them to like it. When […]
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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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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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Sex Sells and Apparently So Does “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Last week on this blog, I learned that “Sex sells.” That’s not totally true. I actually knew that, but y’all made me laugh when I hit an all-time-high number of blog viewers when the topic of last Wednesday’s blog was all about sex. You guys kill me! While I have no intention of changing […]
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Quips and Quotes and Giggles Galore!
Gimme Some Bling! I’ve decided that my 7-year old son thinks too much. The other day he came to me and asked, “Mom, how do I get a gold tooth?” “Those are called ‘grills,” I said. “Okay…” he responded. “But how do I get them?” I thought about this for a second and said, “I […]
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