All Systems Stop

Posted by on Jul 3, 2005 in dish | 0 comments This is definitely one of those weeks where nothing’s going right. I’m mid-project for my chapter right now (a guide entitled The Successful Synopsis: Finaled, Agented, Sold!, which will be available at RWA’s Moonlight Madness bazaar in Reno, then from the CFRW website after National), and of course, I can’t line up all the information I need to put the darned thing to...
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It’s a Synopsis!

Posted by on Jun 21, 2005 in dish | 1 comment Finally! I’ve beaten the synopsis for my next book into shape. Thanks to some quick input from one of my fellow PowerPuffs, I now have a synopsis that doesn’t make me cringe. I like the story, but you know how synopses are. Difficult. Mine usually come out looking like narrative barbells–detailed opening, detailed closing, and a lot of um–er–something happens in the...
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Finally! Revisions!

Posted by on Jun 13, 2005 in dish | 0 comments I was beginning to think my revisions were coming by Pony Express. After the “dangerous fiction” episode with the Department of Homeland Security, I figured the trip down by relatively benign UPS would be, well benign.Wrong again, Fluffy.I get a call from a dispatcher on Friday evening saying that the delivery person had been all up and down my street and found the 1200 block, but...
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DANGEROUS Fiction!!

Posted by on Jun 6, 2005 in dish | 1 comment I’ve been waiting by the mailbox for a week now, hoping that today will *finally* be the day my revisions arrive from Dream Agent, but noooooooooooooo……..Then tonight, long after New York has gone home for the day, DH informs me, “Oh, Paige Wheeler called this morning right after I got off the phone with you.” Keep in mind that I answered at least five calls from my...
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Golden Heart Frustration II

Posted by on Apr 26, 2005 in dish | 0 comments A writer friend of mine who knows something about statistics took my GH scores and the quarter breakdowns and has concluded that I probably missed finaling by .4 of a point.Four-tenths.Ms. 5.5 is really on my s-list now.
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