Guest Blog by Kater Cheek

August 23rd, 2010

Since I’m out of the office this week on vacation, I’ve turned my blog over to my clients, who wanted to share their thoughts with you on a variety of subjects. I let them have free rein because otherwise, well, just trust me, it’s for the best. Today’s post is by Kater Cheek, [...]

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One From the Archives…

August 4th, 2010

As August creeps upon us, and I get ready for my beach vacation, I thought we could periodically take a trip through the archives, and revisit some Ask Daphne! posts from the past. Here’s one from way back in January of 2008:
I have a finished paranormal romance and want to begin shopping it around. [...]

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Who are your early readers?

June 17th, 2010

As is one of the perks of my job, I often get to read my clients’ manuscripts at a relatively early stage — if it’s material that hasn’t sold yet, well before anyone else knows how awesome it is, but also, when we’re talking about books already under contract, either with or sometimes even more [...]

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Ask Daphne! About resubmitting a revision

April 27th, 2010

In the theme of resubmitting, revisions, and repeats, a re-post of one of my favorite pairs of shoes I’ve featured on this blog. And so on to Lisa, who asks:
Hi! I’ve sent out a several queries for my novel and have received quite a few requests for partials but never, after sending these sample [...]

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Ask Daphne! About Editing

April 22nd, 2010

I love these shoes. When I think of shoes to illustrate a post about editors, these are the ones that come to mind. And speaking of editors, (Not Intern) Jenny asks:
Do you work as an editor on in-progress stories? I understand that proposed non-fiction does not necessarily have to be complete. Memoir, however, [...]

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