Also, if you come to this site regularly, you may have noticed things look a little funky right now. Rest assured, my genius Web Monkey is on the case, and things should be back to normal shortly. Especially now that we’ve both finished playing Mass Effect 3. (Don’t get me […]
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Just a quick note for those of my followers who may not have seen my recent tweets: I’m doing my best to stay up-to-date on my query responses, but because I’ve done so many lately, several of your email providers seem to have the mistaken assumption that I’m spam. If […]
So the publishing world is all abuzz today with news of Apple’s iPad, although — period jokes aside — I’m not yet seeing that this is THE THING that will change publishing as we know it. I’m certainly not ready to give up my Kindle, and since I’m not on […]
It's another one of my favorite holidays around here, and real quick, before I run over to Trixie's school for her Halloween party -- I come bearing butterfly wings and homemade cupcakes! -- I wanted to share my latest excitement:
Rexroth, superb web-monkey and all around awesome husband, just gave me a Kindle as a wedding present. Squee!!
Jean writes, "I have an email formatting question for your blog. Many agents want writers to send writing samples (synopsis, first few chapters) along with their query. Seeing as there are a variety of different email programs out there that see things like tabs and italics differently, is there a 'standard' or some advice that you can give for those of us who want to have our samples come out looking lovely (and readable) on the agent's end?"
I've been thinking about my time AFK -- Away From Keyboard, for those of you not up on your l33tspeak. Now granted, with one computer down here in my office, and another one upstairs in Rexroth's office, it's not too often that I'm all that far away from a keyboard. But occasionally, yes, it happens.
It's come to our attention that this site is a little wonky,albeit still readable, under IE 6.0. It works just fine in Firefox and in IE 7.0.