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Random Acts of Writing: Sunday In The Park With…
In honor of NaNoWriMo, I’m spending the month of November offering you all some writing prompts! Here’s the game: A few times each week I’m posting a picture and a setup. Your task is to write 500...
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Random Acts of Writing: Clockworks
In honor of NaNoWriMo, I’m spending the month of November offering you all some writing prompts! Here’s the game: A few times each week I’m posting a picture and a setup. Your task is to write 500...
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Random Acts of Writing: Omnivorous, Arboreal & Marsupial
In honor of NaNoWriMo, I’m spending the month of November offering you all some writing prompts! Here’s the game: A few times each week I’m posting a picture and a setup. Your task is to write 500...
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Publishing Internship
Associate Agent Linda Epstein at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency is seeking an intern starting January 2014 for 15-hours/week, 5-hours in her Long Island home office reading queries, doing...
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Results of November’s Writing Prompts
Thanks to those of you who sent me your responses to this month’s writing prompts! Well done, people! It really takes something to just pull stories out of thin air, on just a picture prompt, even if...
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Writing Prompt Result: J. M. Cooper
“Tally.” Mom reached into her monogrammed tote bag. “You mind telling me where this came from?” “A match?” I asked when her hand was finally revealed from her bag. I was expecting a paint can or a...
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Writing Prompt Result: Heather Hawke
I have to find out if I can take Nat with me. Although winter air stings my nose, I can remember the scent of him. When warned of the gruesome consequences of taking passengers, I’d shivered with the...
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THE PLACE GRATITUDE FILLS IN A FINE CHARACTER From the Philadelphia Press, Nov. 27, 1884 by Walt Whitman Scene.—A large family supper party, a night or two ago, with voices and laughter of the young,...
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Inside Scoop: Dish from the Literary Agent Intern
Dear Linda… Are You My Agent? by Cindy Francois On the list of things I didn’t know, or that didn’t occur to me prior to interning with Linda, is the importance of looking for the best agent/publisher...
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Literary Agent Wish-y (Washy) List
Happy December! I’m (almost) done eating turkey and I’ve given out (almost) all my Hanukkah presents. I’m still searching for some topics to blog about this month (a little help, people?!) and figured...
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How I Create a Submission List
I’ve read my client’s manuscript; gone back and forth with them a number of times, making sure it’s in the best shape I can help them get it into; and crafted a submission letter (which is the agent...
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Writing Yoga Retreat 2014 Registration is Open!
You guys, I’m giddy with excitement! Seriously. I just spun around the room, smiling and laughing… Maybe I’m losing my marbles or maybe I’m really, really psyched for the 2014 Writing Yoga Retreat!...
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Inside Scoop: Dish from the Literary Agent Intern
Oh, na, na, what’s my [genre]? by Cindy Francois As I worked through this final post (my internship ends at the end of the month), whose topic – in case the title didn’t give it away – is knowing the …...
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10 Irksome Things to Avoid When Querying Me
irksome [ˈɜːksəm] adj causing vexation, annoyance, or boredom; troublesome or tedious irksomely adv irksomeness n— Linda Epstein (@LindaEpstein) December 12, 2013 1. when your email address is...
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Tools to Make Your First Pages Stronger
There’s nothing more boring (to me) than a manuscript that starts off with nothing happening. Or starts off with the main character staring at themselves in the mirror (and hating their eyes or fixing...
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Shelfies: Posting Pics of Our Bookcases
In response to 2013 being what some have called “the year of the selfie,” The Guardian requested “shelfies,” pictures of bookcases! So I’d like to share some of the spots where books live in my house,...
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Shelfie: Rhode Island Writer
Head for Cooking is in my living room. It holds about about one third of our cookbooks, a couple of reference books, and a very small sample of my collection of disembodied doll parts. Also a gorgeous...
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Shelfie: Singaporean Writer
This is where my books live. The shelf is three books deep. ~Lesley Cheah~
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What are you doing here?!
Get off your computer, iPad, smartphone, or other electronic device! G0 give someone a gift. Read a book. Make a pot of tea. Practice speaking French. Take a walk in the woods/on the beach/in the...
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Shelfie: Self Proclaimed Nerd Writer (Just Outside Kansas City)
It’s far from the only bookshelf in the house but it’s the biggest. The wall ‘o books. ~W.E. Larson~ Tagged: steampunk author, W.E. Larson
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