Fantasy shoes for T.J. who found me via Twitter to ask the following question (the boots are a design by Michel Tcherevkoff, who has a book of these images. I just added it to my Christmas Wish List): I have been an avid reader of Terry Brooks, Dragonlance series, Lord of the Rings, etc. for [...]
Super fly shoes for Superfly, who’s sent us the following question: I write middle grade novels and also have written and illustrated a picture book. I have sent queries out to agents for both projects at different times and had some interest. I have a few fulls and partials out for my middle grade right [...]
Can you just LOOK at those shoes for a moment? Of course they’re being worn by Lady Gaga, in a picture courtesy of Jezebel, but… but… but… I don’t know, guys, I think I’m speechless. They’re TOE SHOES. With heels. And a platform in the front. Thereby negating the fact of them being TOE SHOES. [...]
The shoes to the left are pink, aren’t they? Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink. There are some (men) who believe that that’s all women care to read about — shoes (preferably pink), and shopping and sex and romance and cocktails, etc. Phooey to them, I say! What’s the cause of today’s diatribe? Something Maureen Johnson [...]
It’s very difficult to find narrow shoes (I know, I’ve gone shoe shopping with my mom), but these Stuart Weitzman beauties do come in narrow, for S.M., who asks: How narrow should the genre be in a query letter? Do I go for the most general genre (i.e., commercial fiction) or try and narrow it [...]
