Faith HunterA guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]
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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | I’m sitting in the waiting room at my mechanic’s, waiting to find out just what’s wrong with my car and how much it’ll cost me. Thing is — nobody knows anything just yet. Writing can be the same way. Sometimes things break down and nobody knows why. In all my years in this crazy business, I’ve [...] I’m in the middle of revising my third published book and my revisions tend to be Messy (yes, with a capital M). Sometimes I think about revising as being similar to cleaning up your office or room. First, there’s the easy stuff like collecting all the writing utensils in one place, throwing away [...] posted by read all posts by Special Guest Stars  Greetings, dear readers! I’m Jessica Wade, and I’m an editor at Ace and Roc, the science fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin. The lovely Faith (AKA Gwen) Hunter asked me to write a guest post for you all, and in this case I’m going to follow the age-old dictate that says ‘write what you know’ [...] It all came down to one paragraph. For the last 4 weeks, I’ve been on rewrites for my next book, Mercy Blade. It has been a rough, tough rewrite, because the plots (two of them) were equally important, interwoven, complex, and based on things that happened in 1912. And, the book needs to be intense enough [...] A few weeks ago I mentioned that working on editing projects is frequently like raising small children: you pay attention to the one that screams the loudest. Interestingly – and unexpectedly – the one that screamed the loudest this week was one I thought was dead: the specialty business magazine I’ve served as managing editor [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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