Just a quick note to let you know I’m guest blogging over at YA Bookstop today. I feel honored and privileged to be part of Dystopia Month. So, please head on over and check out my post on the top reasons we love dystopian fiction.
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So, on Tuesday, I started this series because I’d been accepting/rejecting edits and thought I’d throw out some mistakes I’d made, in case you were making them too. Today, we’re finishing up (read Part I). I called today’s post nebulosity sucks because I wanted to use the word nebulosity. (I mean, really, how often do
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So, I’m finishing up the copy editing process on my book and have a bunch of corrections from my editor to either accept or decline. As I was going through them, I wanted to clarify before I made a decision on some because they weren’t cut and dry errors. Below, I’m listing some of the
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When you’re writing a novel, there’s a tendency to want to immerse yourself in the work of writing a novel. But, in this modern age, with blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest and who knows what else, it’s hard to find time to do it all. So, the question is, how does one find balance, and
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On Saturday, I attended a brief workshop on legal issues for writers, sponsored by CityLit and the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (MDVLA). The speakers were Cynthia Sanders, president of MDVLA and agent/attorney Laura Strachan. Here are some of the highlights of the informative presentation/discussion: If you use copyrighted material in your work, you
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I live in Maryland, and the motto of the University of Maryland is “fear the turtle.” It’s the most clever thing you can do when your mascot is a Terrapin (the state turtle). Don’t sleep on the turtle, peeps; they’re vicious. I feel like we need some type of saying like that for writers, too.
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