Ask Daphne! When Is It Too Much?

Swank, vintage-looking party shoes for Jamie, who writes with a thought-provoking question about social networking: I am a big fan of social networking. No matter what I’m doing or where I am, I have my phone close by so I can check in with my twitter or facebook account to stay up to date on [...]

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Queryday!

Fellow literary agent Colleen Lindsay has once more spread the word for a day of tweeting about queries — no longer to go by the less-than-enthusiastically-received moniker of “queryfail”, today’s look at our queries is to be known as “Queryday,” and will be hashtagged appropriately. Honestly, I debated whether or not to participate this time. [...]

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You, Only Smaller

The charming Rexroth shared an interesting post this past weekend by Seth Godin about avatar pictures, and how to choose the best one. I’m not sure I’m one to really give advice on the subject, since my Facebook and Twitter avatars are shoes, but I do follow his guidelines on some of my more personal [...]

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Submissions Closed — for a little while

Not forever, just until I get back from my trip. As I mentioned in my live-blog yesterday: Please consider that any queries sent between March 19th and April 1st will not be looked at until April 2nd, at the earliest. I would consider it a great kindness if you just held off on any submissions [...]

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Queryfail!

Wondering what I’ve been up to today? I’ve been participating in the brainchild of Colleen Lindsay, an agent with FinePrint Literary management, aka Queryfail day on Twitter.

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