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:
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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Brown patent leather shoes for the patient Margay, who sent in her query for our review, as follows...
John Scalzi has another great post up on his blog today, called Why You Need An Agent, Foreign Edition. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Need something to give you a kick in the pants to actually sit down and WRITE that novel you have percolating around in your head? Well, you're in luck! Saturday begins NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. Sure, some'll say NaNoWriMo does nothing other than set an arbitrary target and deadline, but for some writers, that's what they NEED!
Guys, I don't want to do this. I WANT to respond to every query I receive. But if authors keep ignoring my advice to track their submissions, and keep resending queries I've already responded to, well, at some point I'm going to realize what a waste of my time and yours it is to keep responding to those repeats.
So I'm going through my queries today, and I notice the name of a professional editor popping up a number of times on letters to me. Which would be fine, normally -- I love the idea of an editor passing my name to clients whose manuscripts match my stated interests.
Fantastic five-star review for Evermore by Alyson Noel up at TeensReadToo.
Neil Gaiman recently posted about T-Mobile's fancy new G1 phone, and his aborted attempts to test one out. One day later, he alluded to the fact that a G1 may be on its way to him, and I, for one, can only say: WHAT ABOUT ME????
kt literary client Lili Wilkinson tipped me off to this post on Inside a Dog from Writer-in-Residence Brigid Lowry.