Melinda R. Cordell is up today, so please leave your thoughts in the comment section. Remember: all snark will be destroyed! Spread the word so Melinda can get tons of helpful feedback! ~~~ Dear Nice Agent Person: I’m querying you because you’re so awesome, et cetera. After being bullied for the millionth time in seventh […]
Put your hands together for Holly (my fab crit partner!). Her query is below for community feedback, so please leave your thoughts in the comments (no snark permitted). Spread the word so Holly can get as much quality criticism as possibility! ~~~ Dear Agent Sooz, Because you are fantastic and wonderful and have a love […]
Darke Conteur is up today, so please leave your thoughts in the comment section. Remember: all snark will be instantly incinerated! Spread the word so Darke can get tons of helpful feedback! ~~~ Dear [agent name] Amelia Saint thinks she’s losing her mind. Demonic visions have left Amelia doubting her sanity. When she learns her […]
Okay, peeps! Laura Wardle is up today, so please leave you thoughts in the comment section. Remember: all snark will be instantly incinerated! Oh, and spread the word so Laura can get lots of helpful feedback. Also, be sure to check out Janet Reid’s latest post on query letters. Lots of great information to be […]
So, I decided to go ahead and throw my friend Yahong‘s query up for community feedback! Please leave your thoughts in the comments (nothing snarky — it will be instantly deleted). Spread the word so Yahong can get as much quality criticism as possibility! ~~~ Dear [agent]: When a bizarre circular imprint appears in the […]
UPDATE: All queries must be received by 12:00 AM Friday (Jan. 21, 2011) — so Thursday night! I am (no surprise) receiving a lot of these, and I don’t want to be SO inundated that I can’t give everyone a quality-critique. So, I said I’d be open until Friday, and I’ll wait until the very […]
Last Friday’s QOTW was about avoiding a contrived plot. At the time, I took this to mean a copy-cat plot, but the responses of Mandy and Julie made me see what the question could have meant: how do you avoid a forced plot — a turn of events in the story that doesn’t feel natural. […]
5 out of 5 stars. I first read Patricia C. Wrede’s and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecelia almost fifteen years ago (as young Yahong kindly pointed out recently, I am old) when it still had the cover you see to the right. It has since been reprinted, given a snazzy new cover (see below), and […]
Thanks to Julie for this award and to Meredith for reminding me it exists. I get to share 7 “random” things about myself… 1. I’m a marine biologist with a focus on data analysis — in other words, statistics. So I can’t use words like “random” or “significant” without thinking of them from a math […]
Fellow writing buddy, Katharine Owens (a.k.a. The Insect Collector) has issued a challenge to do good all year. Since we’re going to read so much, why not donate to charity at the same time? It’s called the I Dig Reading Challenge. Katharine says: Over the month of December I participated in a Read-a-thon where participants […]
