Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, conferences, jubilation, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, The Edge of Memory on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kristin Nelson rocks. Seriously.
I attended her workshop on Query Pitch Blurbs at the Chicago-North RWA Spring Fling. Using her suggestions, I crafted a query letter and sent out an equery on Monday night.
Tuesday afternoon, I got a request for a partial.
She has been blogging on the same topic. Well [...]
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Warning! The following post is slightly spoilerific. So you’ll have to click “continue” to read it.
In case you read about my first agent meeting and wondered what my 60-second pitch was…
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Posted in What I've Learned, novel, tagged agents, conferences, genres, jubilation, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, The Edge of Memory, wordcounts on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, I’m back to my regularly scheduled doctorhood today.
I got in late last night and I’m working a 24+ hour shift today. So I didn’t have a chance to finish blogging about the conference.
Wow. What a crazy, wonderful experience that was!
Saturday, I drove in early for more workshops. I had a great session [...]
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Well, last night got interesting.
First, I attended a great lecture on the nuts and bolts of publishing from agent Christina Hogrebe and author Maureen Lang.
After the lecture was the “Chocolate Reception”. There, I recognized agent Kristin Nelson from her blog picture and hovered nearby like a star-struck teenager for about ten minutes, but there never [...]
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Well, here I sit on break from my very first writing conference. A surreal experience to say the least.
After working up a vigorous lather of panic and caffeine this morning, I arrived at the Spring Fling conference muttering my 60-second pitch to myself and trying not to puke.
Much ado about nothing, like most panic. [...]
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In my continued quest to figure out how to get published, I’ve been researching writing conferences. The Chicago Spring Fling conference I’m attending at the end of this month is sneaking up on me faster than I’d expected.
In addition to cooking up a verbal pitch, I’ve read that I also need to prepare business [...]
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I love Caribou Cafe.
Between the writing and the editing, I have probably done about 1/3 of the work on my novel there.
I should list them in my acknowledgments.
The editing is going gangbusters now. I’ve made some changes to chapter 7 that make me happy. I wasn’t really digging the whole journey thing; [...]
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