Evil Editor's Blog, page 418

Q & A 172

Is this year as tough as it feels like it is with respect to publishing? Getting published? Becoming represented? I haven't really gone out on the trying-for-representation/publication limb too much yet, so before I do more, I'd like your opinion. Is this year a washout anyway? Are applicable publishing credits something that would actually help? Are some genres not selling, so don't shoot your own ass trying? That kinda thing would be nice to hear about.

My opinion isn't worth the electrons it's

Cartoon 449

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New Beginning 673

Ann could have driven home from the tennis club another way. She could have taken the tree-lined boulevard through her stately neighborhood in the suburbs. Instead she detoured four miles past No Limits. She had driven by it many times and wondered what it was like inside. The building stood fifty yards behind a high wrought iron fence and heavy gate. Far enough that details couldn't be seen from the moving traffic, yet close enough she could see the impressive entrance and the walkway from secl

Cartoon 448

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Writing Exercise

Bad Queries

Step 1. Use this random number generator to get one integer between 1 and 660.

Step 2. Search the blog for the Face-Lift with that number.

Step 3. Choose one of the fake plots.

Step 4. Write a query that focuses entirely on one thing that should be a very minor part of a good query, or shouldn't be included in a good query at all. Obviously you won't be bringing up the plot at all, but you also won't be mentioning--at all--anything other than the ONE area you choose to focus on. If you a

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Guess the Plot

Futurality

1. It's 2079, and the English language has been taken over by a band of rogue suffixes. Armed only with a bootlegged copy of Strunk & White, 5th grade Language Arts teacher Henrietta Fowler must go back in time to the early 20th century and kill Warren G. Harding, the man who coined the word "normalcy" and started it all.

2. As Rasbaum's new illustrated dictionary unfurls, he invents new words, based on novel combinations of Latin and whimsy -- but his crush, Georgette the

Cartoon 447

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Book Chat News

Cold Moon Rising
C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
Paranormal Romance

The book chat is scheduled for Saturday, August 29th, 10 AM eastern. Cathy Clamp, co-author will be joining us, which is sure to add a level of enjoyment to the chat. If you live outside the US and ordered it and don't have it by, say, the 25th, let me know and we'll try to get you a digital copy.

New Beginning 672

Today, given her current circumstances, the point where Murphy Road met Highway 90 felt like the intersection between heaven and hell.

Honk! Honk!! The car behind her screamed encouragement, urging her to react to the green traffic light ahead. She squirmed in her seat but kept her foot firmly on the brake. The impatient driver swerved into the right lane, and drove past, his middle finger in the air.

Finally she heard what she was waiting for, still a distant rumble. Shifting her foot to the acce

Cartoon 446

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