Happy Tryptophan Day

November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Family. Gratitude. All that. You’ve been doing this for years and you’ve got it down pat.
Go stuff yourself silly.

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Make it easy on the customer

November 26, 2008 | 19 Comments

There’s a book I really really really want to read. However, it’s only available in e-format 2 ways: Serialized on the author’s blog (i.e., on the computer—no thanks) and via Kindle (no thanks). Now, I’m getting ready to email him and ask him if it’s available any other way, so we shall [...]

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25

I chuckle

November 25, 2008 | 3 Comments

Gawker Unsolicited: Spell my Damn Name Right, and Other Hot Tips for Agents.
Somebody give me a machete. I can’t get through all the layers of irony here.

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Moratorium on manuscript buying

November 24, 2008 | 8 Comments

From Publisher’s Weekly:
It’s been clear for months that it will be a not-so-merry holiday season for publishers, but at least one house has gone so far as to halt acquisitions. PW has learned that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying books. [...] Another agent who had also heard about the no-acquisitions [...]

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23

Why I go to church

November 23, 2008 | 4 Comments

Something happened this past week which greatly upset me. Trying to be stoic (Stoic isn’t exactly my middle name, right?), I did not cry. I attempted to put it out of my mind. I worked a lot. Last night, still trying to not cry, I dragged my Tax Deductions all over [...]

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22

Mormons and vampires

November 22, 2008 | 18 Comments

Again.
So I’m looking through my stats and come upon the search phrase, “is there a correlation between mormons and vampires.”
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Just like every other organized religion on the planet. And those who submit and bare their necks to the teeth do so willingly. Or not. Maybe. [...]

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19

Ah, homogeneity!

November 19, 2008 | 16 Comments

So I saw this in Publisher’s Weekly online yesterday and bookmarked it to blog about, but then Janet Reid beat me to the punch.
Recently, funny things have been happening in my slush pile. I find myself receiving well-written, correctly formatted, professional-looking query letters from bad writers. Imagine my chagrin: one minute I’m intrigued by a [...]

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