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Agents Are Visions, But Only Illusions, and Writers Have Nothing to Hide…

October 4, 2011 by

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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 […]

Doing It Wrong

August 12, 2011 by

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I just realised I’m doing it wrong. I have to stop trying to sell the plot and instead try to sell the story. Or the theme anyway. Cause one of the reasons I’ve hated writing the query letters and spent so much time banging my head against the wall is because every time I try […]

Wizards in Space?

August 11, 2011 by

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So right now I’m nomming the Jim Butcher Dresden Files books.* They’re like popcorn with magic and hitting things. I totally recommend them. (And the audio books as read by James Masters, who is the perfect voice for Harry Dresden.) On a (probably) related note, I’m sort of accidentally writing this new thing. (Not in […]

The Paul Habit

July 29, 2011 by

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Why am I doing this? I’m asking myself this question… why put my entire work out for free, and even be considering self-epublishing? That isn’t something that many writers who want to be ‘taken seriously’ do. There are, of course, a number of high profile authors who have been doing just this, but too often […]

How NOT to Appeal to a Potential Agent (or Mate)

July 26, 2011 by

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Paul thinks I should update you on my search for representation thing. I think this may be the first step on a descending spiral of madness and despair, but what do I know? So. On Friday an agent (one of those at the very top of my shortlist of favourites) asked to see a partial […]

The Jam Tomorrow of the Writing Game

July 19, 2011 by

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I submitted my first batch of queries yesterday. Apparently I was supposed to tell people that. There. I’ve told. I didn’t say anything because it’s not time for celebration, it’s just the dawn of a widening chasm of hopelessness and despair *ahem* I mean, patient waiting period. There will be cautious optimism if one of […]

The End. The End. *dance*

July 18, 2011 by

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In between writing query letters I’ve been writing a synopsis. Where ‘writing’ is composing a sentence and then thinking, ‘well, that’s stupid’, writing another and glaring at it, and then deleting both and starting again. Which is made worse by the fact that I’ve already done this once. But that was back when the first […]

A good query letter is one that gets them to call you

July 16, 2011 by

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A query letter is a tricky piece of writing. It has to excite the interest of the reader while being informative, condense the basic plot to a couple of sentences that still give a clear indication of what’s in the book, be funny and sound like your book while still being professional, tell them about […]

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