Writers from across the blogosphere – The Writers’ Block carnival

Welcome to the September 30, 2007 edition of writers from across the blogosphere!

Hungry Writer presents R-E-S-P-E-C-T posted at Writing For Food.

‘Colorado’ Gumi presents Chap. 1 – ‘Proto-Gin’ posted at The History of Gin, saying, “This Blogger, who ‘claims’ not to be a famous writer, says it’s a biography of a young woman in [...]

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Writing Is Rewriting

I have been hard at work on a complete revision of my novel Reply All. It started when I got a thoughtful and constructive rejection from a really great agent whose main issue was that he didn’t know where the book would go on a bookstore’s shelves. He also had some problems with the basic [...]

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Among the Bills calling, Mr. Pulitzer called as well

I ordered 4 of my books, “The Mango Tree Cafe, Loi Kroh Road” and submitted them to Columbia University in New York City.
I will find out if my fateful collaboration with Alan Solomon will win a Pulitzer for ‘Best Fiction next spring. Crossed appendages all.
Here is PART TWO OF THE MANGO TREE CAFE, [...]

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What’s the Secret?

I have been busily marketing myself these days. I have made videos that advertise my skills and posted them on You Tube. I’ve done “cold emailing” to my clients, applied for temp work at agencies, which I swore I would never do, but my mortgage is calling me.
The writing season has been EXTREMELY [...]

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A sad month for the fantasy world indeed (RIP Robert Jordan)

From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/17/obit.jordan.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
“‘Wheel of Time’ author dead at 58
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Author Robert Jordan, whose “Wheel of Time” series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies, has died of a rare blood disease, his aide said Monday. He was 58.
Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., died Sunday at the Medical [...]

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In and Outs of Book Promotions

by Clary Lopez
The time to think about your book promotion is before you start writing it. When you consider your book subject you should consider how big an audience the book might have. Then you need to know where and how to reach that audience. After doing your initial research and deciding [...]

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RIP Madeline L’Engle

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/07/obit.lengle.ap/index.html
I would count Madeline L’Engle as an author who got me into writing. I read her books as a kid, yes and deeply loved them. But it wasn’t until I read “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art” several years ago that I began to seriously think about writing again. I had always meant [...]

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Time has come today…TIME!

So September is upon us. I’ve been feeling like I’m in a back-to-school mentality mode, though I have no reason to–my only child isn’t in school yet. And I’m not planning to start the edits on my novel until October, giving me a full three months for it to sit and percolate.
I haven’t been completely [...]

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