News, links and thoughts.
Heaven nears the 20K word mark. New episode this weekend.
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Wanna publish a book? Don’t work hard, refine the craft, and impress readers with your dazzling turn of tale. Just be hot and have a TV show. Now, I love Desperate Housewives, but come on. In high school we drew the line. They could be hot and get all the attention, we could be brainy and impress people that way.* Does this mean I should start putting pictures of myself with my cover letters?
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I’ve talked about the importance of query letters and cover letters before, but Agent Kristin says it best: Honest, My Novel is Fantastic but I Can’t Write A Query Letter.
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More secrets from the inside: Confessions of a Cranky Lit-Mag Editor. The importance of first sentences and of editing.
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The excellent site Writer Beware has started linking to services writers might be interested in, from manuscript preparation to publicists.
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10 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Look Stupid
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Lastly, there’s a debate now on whether Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine is ignoring women’s stories. There’s a movement started to get 100 women to submit to F&SF on August 18. Who’s with me? (It’s somewhat of a controversy, I’ll talk about it more on the podcast this weekend.)
* I’m kidding. Mostly.
About the Author: I am a writer and podcast producer, writing for magazines and RPGs. I am a wanna-be fiction writer with several short fiction, comic scripts, and one novel sale. Playing For Keeps will be out August, '08.
Richard Crawford | Jun 15, 2006 | Reply
I bet it’s a ghost writer writing that erotica for Eva Langoria (who, in my opinion, is built too much like a soda straw to meet any definition of the term “hot” anyway).
Lambo | Jun 15, 2006 | Reply
@Richard,
I have concerns about how good of a writer she can be. I have never seen the show, so I can’t say how good of an actress she is. However, I do walk by the magazines in my book store. I have to disagree with your definition of hot. All I can assume you didn’t see the cover of last month’s Shape cover.
LOL
A Fan | Jun 15, 2006 | Reply
More pictures of you could only be a good thing. Don’t just send them with your letters, post them here.
Lisa, Paper Chaser | Jun 15, 2006 | Reply
I am TOTALLY signing up to try to be Antonio Banderas’s ghost writer! ME! ME! PICK ME!!! Oh! OH! MEEEEEE!!!
C.A. Sizemore | Jun 16, 2006 | Reply
Mur, I have seen a few of your pics, a good head shot would not hurt
BTW, you are way hotter then Eva and if we weren’t both married and living on opposite side of the country…
I’m going to stop now before I creep us both out.