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When The Publisher Calls You
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
Hold on a sec, I got some thoughts about your memoir You open your email, and O frabjous day! A publisher has come calling! They’ve seen your work in a literary magazine and wonder if you have a chapbook, or would like to be in their anthology. Or you…
Balticon 52
Originally posted on WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS:
No query corner this week: instead here’s a quick review of Balticon 52. I’ll be going into more depth on some of the panels later. After a long week away from home learning about Aeronautics, my bed got me for one night before I hit Balticon 52.…
Reading Links…5/29/18
Originally posted on Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author:
woman, fantasy setting Reading Links…5/29/18 Traci Kenworth ? Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://coldhandboyack.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/the-yak-guy-project-our-review-originalfiction-distopian-virgilante/ When you’re rescued by a talking yak, the situation gets exponentially worse. You have obviously lost your mind. The immediate needs of a ride off the salt pan and searing heat, along with a drink of water,…
Tips for Better Fiction Writing: Write FAST
Originally posted on DAN ALATORRE:
your humble host I’m writing a book series called Tips For Better Fiction Writing, in which I tackle all the rookie mistakes new writers make. And hey, I made them, too. Which is why I’m helping you not make them. Until the next book in the series comes out, you’ll see these gems here…
Creature Feature
Originally posted on From the Pen of Mae Clair:
If you’re a regular follower of my blog, it’s no secret I have a love affair with creatures—a passion I developed early, thanks in part to my older brother. He had a Creepy Crawler maker when we were kids. Remember those? You poured colored goop into…
Design Your Own Logo In Seconds!
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As many of you know, in my day job I work as a web developer. Most of my skills I’ve picked up in the past 25 years of web design, from Internet marketing to social media, have proven useful once I started writing. One of them was logo design:…
Birds eye view
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
There must have been thirty starlings, mainly youngsters, in the garden at my son’s home today. The great tits and blue tits are very tame and happy to peck away at the feeding stations even when you are very close. Robins, thrushes and blackbirds are regular visitors,…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 