Midsummer Madness II - Halfway there!
I started the Midsummer Madness II Workshop at Liberty Hall on July 5th. Now it’s July 26th. Time flies. Especially with one of the participants where their novel takes place in another dimension where Mr. Time (a former working name) lives.
What have we gone through? We’ve worked on novel concepts with 20 paragraph summaries. We’ve [...]
Herding my cats along
Somehow the four novels I currently have in WIP or finished form are running around in different directions. I find it necessary to herd these all together, but it’s somewhat like herding cats. They are all different and have different needs and are leading me in different directions. So I must set priorities. Still, I’ve [...]
June: Subs & Queries
So far since I started to submit again and sent out nine queries for Panix, I’ve gotten back two story rejections from big markets and two form query rejections. Nathan Bransford actually sent me two form query rejections in two days after I emailed them out. That’s fast turnaround time.
I’ve got about five short story [...]
Did I say tough?
Aw shucks. My writing sample request was rejected. I made it to first base (the request for a sample). That made me feel good. The rejection (your project isn’t quite what we want…) made me feel sad.
So what did I do? Wallow in my pity? Well, I did for a few hours. Then I submitted [...]
Poetry? POETRY???
Yes, poetry.
I was looking at some markets for short stories and came across a well known SF magazine that accepts poetry.
Well, after taking a good part of the day getting my blog headed in a new direction, I thought that I can bang out a poem. I’ve written hundreds of poems in my time… lots [...]
Query Letters
Significant work went into my query letter. I read what I could. I went to AgentQuery.com and used that as my primary source for agents as well as a prime source for query letters. I also found some good samples at agent Kristin Nelson’s blog Pub Rants. Trolling around the web will be productive in [...]
