Listener requests for topics!

• Promo: Daughter of the Sun
• Writer Beware
• Preditors and Editors
• Promo: Things are Looking Up
• Pimping other projects, like This Day in Alternate History

 

 ISBW #73 - Listener Questions [29:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (454)

In a dream come true, I actually got to talk to one of my idols, multiple-award-winning author, Connie Willis.

Other things discussed:

• I sold three short fic pieces!
• Earth proceeds, as does a new story.
• Two agent rejections… from the same agency…
• Promo: Strangely Literal
• The interview was somewhat clipped by skype at the beginning, which is irritating, but it gets better.
• Promo: Aliens You Will Meet
• George Orwell’s 5 Rules of Effective Writing
• 52stories.net
• lazette.net/vision
• writing-world.com
• urbis.com - creative social networking
  
• Writer’s Talking discussion about personal wikis - I use voodoopad

 

 ISBW #72 - Connie Willis Interview [1:06:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (502)

This week I got two rejections… from the same agency. I must have queried them twice, but I can’t for the life of me figure out where I went wrong. The agency isn’t in my notes twice. But they had two SASE’s from me, so…

I haven’t done a huge bit of updating lately - I’m down to two agents reading fulls, and fourteen not responding at all. I’ve pinged one agent reading a full and he said to query again at the end of the month. Sigh. Man, they say writing is hard. Writing isn’t hard. All this frikkin’ WAITING is hard.

I guess I should go write more.

New ISBW this weekend. Maybe two!