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10 things to do while waiting 8 months to hear from an editor on a requested revision Waiting What would you add to this list? Check your email every 15 minutes. Alternately, leave your email program on and the volume set to high, so that it bellows at you, “You’ve got mail,” and you can [...]
Schools, conferences, professional development for teachers–I have a little bit of everything planned for this year. March 17 Pine Ridge Elementary, Maumelle, AR April 1 Cathedral School, Little Rock, AR April 4-6 Act 2 of Novel Retreat in 3 Acts, Nebraska April 11-12 Arkansas Society of Children’s Bookwriters and Illustrators, Conway, AR http://members.aol.com/ddpattison/scbwi/spring.html April 21 [...]
The great secret of education is to combine physical and mental work so that one kind of exercise refreshes the other. –Jean-Jacques Rousseau Exercise and Creativity I think you could substitute “the great secret of creativity” in the above quote. At least for me, I do better when I combine some physical activity with the [...]
Submissions This week, I’ll talk about submissions. Are You Still Submitting Before Revising? Are You Still NOT Submitting? Are You Still Submitting Blind? Are You Still Singly Submitting? Are You Still Not Tracking Submissions? Manuscript Tracking Software There are many ways to do this, including Excel or other spreadsheets. But I’m still using SAMM, written [...]
Get ready for my soapbox about submitting! Submissions This week, I’ll talk about submissions. Are You Still Submitting Before Revising? Are You Still NOT Submitting? Are You Still Submitting Blind? Are You Still Singly Submitting? Are You Still Not Tracking Submissions? Submitting a Manuscript is the Saleswoman’s Hat Think about this scenario: You are a [...]
Are you still submitting blind, to people you know nothing about and have never met? Why? Submissions This week, I’ll talk about submissions. Are You Still Submitting Before Revising? Are You Still NOT Submitting? Are You Still Submitting Blind? Are You Still Singly Submitting? Are You Still Not Tracking Submissions? Know Your Audience You should [...]
Do you write for yourself or for publication? Submissions This week, I’ll talk about submissions. Are You Still Submitting Before Revising? Are You Still NOT Submitting? Are You Still Submitting Blind? Are You Still Singly Submitting? Are You Still Not Tracking Submissions? Are you Still NOT Submitting? When a friend recently started writing, we talked [...]
Today begins a year-long series about those intrepid newcomers, The Class of 2k8. To help marketing efforts for debut novelists, these 28 novelists have banded together to create a group marketing effort. I’m thrilled that three authors in this group have taken my novel revision retreat; two of them sold the novel they brought to [...]
Before you sent off that manuscript to an editor, did you revise? Why not? Submissions This week, I’ll talk about submissions. Are You Still Submitting Before Revising? Are You Still NOT Submitting? Are You Still Submitting Blind? Are You Still Singly Submitting? Are You Still Not Tracking Submissions? Are you Still Submitting Before Revising? You [...]
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