My food blog on eGullet!
I’m blogging at eGullet this week about my other passion besides writing: cooking! If you have any interest in food (or snow) come check it out! [db]
Jan 15, 2008 Book news
Crazy Query
I found on my hard drive a folder called “Queries in Progress.” Thinking there might be a few salvageable ideas in there, I read through all the forgotten queries. At the end of one from 2002, lacking a real conclusion, I had written:
I have near-godlike powers, and should be given this assignment without hesitation.
I am …
Jan 13, 2008 Query letters
You Ask, We Answer: Selling Reprints
Sarah asks: I’m wondering how reprints are viewed by editors today. For example, I had something published on a storyblog (not my own). I would now like to submit the same essay to hard copy magazines. I can’t find anything mentioned about reprints in the writers’ guidelines for these publications. Should I mention that it …
Jan 8, 2008 Advice, You Ask, We Answer
One Space, Not Two
For my e-book Editors Unleashed: Magazine Editors Growl About Their Writer Peeves, one of my editors told me about a pet peeve that many of us commit every few seconds: She hates it when writers insert two spaces after periods. The “two spaces” rule is a holdover from the days before proportionally-spaced fonts, but many …
Way North Writers Post #2: Achieve your dreams in 2008
A day or so ago, Linda posted a notice about our second meeting of Way North Writers, a group for New England writers to network and share leads, inspiration and advice. I’m happy to say that we have a wonderful coach coming to lead us through a workshop on clarifying our dreams and achieving goals …
Jan 5, 2008 Classes, Networking, News you can use, Opportunities, Self improvement
