Dan Smetanka at Sisters in Crime L.A.
Dan Smetanka, editor-at-large at Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, spoke at the Sisters in Crime L.A. meeting on Sunday. Though he made fun of people who include unicorn stickers with their queries again...
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Holy Shit Moment #5: The Grammar of Backstory
Maybe I haven’t always wanted to be a writer, but I have always loved grammar. As a long-time lover of grammar, it takes a lot for me to be floored by a grammar rule. But when the lovely Jean Jenkins...
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Holy Shit Moment #4: How Writing in the Digital Age Affects Formatting
Holy Shit Moment #4 also comes from the great Jean Jenkins, who was just a phenomenal resource at this conference. If I hadn’t already been on the floor from her last holy-shit-inducing comment (that...
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Holy Shit Moment #2: A Surprising Reason why you may want to Hire an Editor
The keynote speaker of the Southern California Writers’ Conference was Selden Edwards who wrote The Little Book (A New York Times Bestseller, among other things). Selden started writing his Little Book...
View ArticleHoly Shit Moment #1 (Success Story included!)
It’s been almost six months since I started this blog, and my writing life has simply taken off since then. Six months ago, I was querying my first book, which, at the time, was my life. I’d spent...
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Keeping Neil Gaiman in Mind
The following is a list of truly great books: 1. American Gods 2. Wuthering Heights 3. Gilead 4. Ivanhoe 5. Mrs. Dalloway Now prepare to be hugely, HUGELY disappointed in me. Ready? I do not like any...
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