I’m about 2 months behind on my self-imposed deadline for Black Desert. I was supposed to have a draft by next month, but it looks like it’ll be May instead, with heavy revisions and something of a caliber that could be submitted to my editor by September or so (yes, I’m a heavy rewriter. Not […]
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Song of the night, just gifted to myself from iTunes. Because everyone needs ridiculous songs to flail around wildly to during nights like this one. In fact, listen to it while you read the rest of this post. Cause I am. I have been informed that the following news has already been announced to the
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If you’re working on writing up queries or synposes, I’ve found it sorta fun and helpful to write up one of those “back cover” blurbs that you see on the back of books as practice. Writers tend to be huge readers, which means we’ve all read about a million of these. Not only is it
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Got an official 1099 from Hartwell for my Year’s Best SF sale. That was quite nice, actually. Most short sales don’t send you 1099s. I honestly couldn’t remember if I’d made $75 or $100 for it. Yes, all you dewy-eyed young writers out there: making a Year’s Best Sale will net you an incredible $100!!
I was doing some random googling tonight, and wondered what would happen if folks only had my first name and location. Would they discover my TRUE IDENTITY? According to Google, no. Cause there is apparently ANOTHER KAMERON IN DAYTON. And you all thought MySpace pages weren’t good for anything. Look at how perfectly my identity
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One of the details I put into GW was a nod to the fact that Rhys, my magician, was good at reading people. He knew a bel dame (a bounty hunter/draft dodger police type of person) just by looking at them. Trouble with this “detail” was, I used that whole “Well, he just KNEW” language.
The Copywriter’s Handbook, by Robert Bly. As noted, I write just about everything at my job, from intranet news to forum Q&A to magazine blurbs to policy documents to press releases. And this book shows you how to write, well, just about everything. So it’s a good fit. I love the versatility of this little
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I find it vaguely embarrassing that I have an epic fantasy series that requires a detailed character list. Not just to keep myself straight, but to unconfuse confused readers. I hate these things, because I feel like your characters should all be fleshed out enough that nobody gets them confused, even if you’ve got a
Number of queries my agent received this year: Approximately 8,000 Partial manuscripts she requested for review: 49 Full manuscripts requested: 18 Number of new clients signed: 5 One of those five was me. I think I’m going to take myself out to dinner tonight and just take some time to appreciate that.
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Snapshots from the life of a tech-writer-working-for-health-insurance (who also happens to be a freelance-fiction-author-working-to-pay-off-credit-card-debt-and-maintain-sanity): 5:35 am: Wake up, test sugar and check email. Take 15 u Lantus shot and breakfast bolus. Shots always come first thing. 5:35-5:50am: morning free weights and situps routine. I don’t wake up properly until I do this. 5:50-6:05am: Make today’s
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