Where’s ISBW?

Hey everyone-

I have a raw ISBW I need to edit and get online. My computer locked up right before I went on vacation, so there was considerable radio silence on this end, and for that I’m sorry. I PROMISE I will get a pre-NaNoWriMo episode up before November 1! It may be raw and without effects, but it’ll be up!

(And THANK YOU again to Christopher for the interview with Kim Harrison so the podcast wasn’t so bereft of content!)

In the meantime, check these pages out:

• Agent Kristin talks about pitches - but something more important surfaces in this blog post. You can take your pitch from the first 20-30 pages of your book because that’s where something happens that sets the book in motion. The event. But for editing your novel, look at your first 20-30 pages. If it’s all backstory and setting, and you can’t imagine writing a pitch from anything but the cool thing that happens in Chapter 3, then scrap 1 and 2.
• If you’re a language junkie, you might be interested in this fascinating blog post about the half-life of verbs, or the evolution of language.