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It’s K-A-N-D-A… Wait. Where Was I? A-N… Crap.
Is it wrong that I’ve started to think of query letters as rejection requests? Even receiving them requires more concentration than I really want to impart. I mean, I have to read them. And they’re electronic so I can’t even set them on fire or impale them on a spike or anything. Worse than that, […]
Wednesday Poetry: Dogs in Love
October 5, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
Funnily enough, this particular poem has also found itself (as prose) in Playing the Dragon King as discussed on Monday. ~~~~~ Guys dance; lights splash across floating glitter. We move by the dance floor as dust on a struck drum clash by the bar, crowd barely a man deep— and stand watching us. Now I know […]
Schadenfreude All Over the Place
October 5, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
So the last couple of nights I’ve been watching a whole group of people fall apart emotionally. And laughing. Because I am a horrible, horrible person. Or because I’m a writer. Which, in this instance, I think is sort of the same thing. I mean, the falling apart is totally justified. It’s in response to […]
Monday Blurb: Playing the Dragon King
October 4, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
Yet another of my novels in a various state of drafting (1.5th in this case.) This one came from a simple decision to try and write a YA novel, and while I thought I’d gone off track a bit, I’ve been told it’s a great example of a problem novel. While my Mum won’t read […]
Agents Are Visions, But Only Illusions, and Writers Have Nothing to Hide…
October 4, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
I really want to have an agent already. And weirdly not so much because it’s the next step in my career, toward publication and so on. At this point it’s mostly just because then I wouldn’t have to do more agent research or write any more query letters and I could just write. (We will […]
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October 6, 2011 by Kandace Mavrick
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