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.
Update the comments template.
Add photos and jackets for clients.
Links to author websites.
Writer-tips links page.
News template needs ‘category only’ includes.
Main template needs ‘most recent’ excerpt.
… slowly but surely. Optimism Inc will publish again!
