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Posts tagged 'agents'

Renegade A to Z: A is for …

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

… audio books, Audacity, agents and anxiety dreams. Myself and three other people got talking on Twitter t’other day (as you do) about how we regretted missing the A to Z challenge that has been playing out on blogs over April. The challenge is to write a post a day for each letter of the [...]

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An angry rant about query letter writing

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I saw a tweet earlier, and it made me absolutely furious. Now that doesn’t often happen to me, so I had a cup of tea. I was still angry. I had a shower. I was still angry. So here I am. I won’t name the tweeter, as I think this post could get me into [...]

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Prologue, progress and no procrastination!

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

First things first, the shiny new edited prologue is over there on the left, or in this link if you prefer. I hope it’s better than the last version. I’d like to thank the marvellous people at the Editor Unleashed forum for their support and critiques. I’m still digesting some of the advice (about the [...]

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Diverging in a wood

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I struggled to get sleep last night wondering if self-publishing really was the best thing to do. I resigned myself to the thought that these doubts will always be here, all the way through this process. When the book is published, they’ll be replaced by a whole new cartful of doubts, so I may as [...]

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