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Tweets for 2009-08-05

Spending the next few days reading the page proofs for King Trahan's story http://bit.ly/Vqq6w #Happy to say agent loved new series overview & wants chapters. Am writing as fast as grey matter will function & fingers fly. #Should add that overview was about 5K words, so lots to love! #Created series name this weekend! RT @shannonstacey: Wish there was place [to:] buy awesome series names, Bulletcatchers, Troubleshooters … #.@vibekecourtney did a FANTASTIC job on the new design!! RT: @ann_aguirre

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Tweets for 2009-08-04

Three books, three authors, a giveaway – including a book by @jillsorenson http://is.gd/20CAC #And may I say yet again that I do not understand authors making it HARD to find their web presence, ahem. #I don't think I've ever been actively writing on as many things as I am now. Have weird multiple character personality disorder going on. #Very cool writing workshop to be given in September by @RGregoryBrowne http://is.gd/20HiT #Yay! Dogs barely barked at the man in brown shorts. Wondering if it'

Tweets for 2009-08-03

WIP going so well I woke up thinking of it & got up to write instead of going back to sleep! Yay me! The magic is in the donuts! @cuppacafe #Have been doing Web design work with @hollykate while four canines fight it out for the top dog position. All toys now shredded and gutted. #.@KarenTempleton I want to make this cherry pie but have disease called lazy. http://is.gd/1ZyU1 #.@ginablack Have put this TexMex dish on this week's menu: http://is.gd/1ZzcI #Sent beginning of scary big book off to c

Publishing's Dog Days of August

August is the month when publishing takes a nap. It's a sleepy month, many industry types on vacation. My previous Blaze editor used to take off three weeks each August, and if I had a book or revisions due, I'd get things to her with plenty of lead time.

I've decided to follow suit and take a blogging vacation for August. I'm already on hiatus at GenReality, and Sasha has been great to schedule around me. Here, I schedule myself so I'm going to leave the August calendar open. If anything cool ha

Not only the New Yorker, but Cosmo, too!

My Kensington editor forwarded this email to me from the folks as Cosmo last week:

Please see the final excerpt attached. If you could pass this on for author approval and let me know as soon as she ok's it that would be great. Thanks!

After sharing the news with the husband, I had to Twitter it for everyone else!

The New Yorker Kindle article? Yeah, I'm there. ;)

This is too cool. My CIG is mentioned in Nicholson Baker's article on the Kindle:

To be fair to the Kindle, I had to make it through at least one whole book. Jeff Bezos calls this "long form" reading. I had some success one morning when I Kindled my way deep into "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance," by Alison Kent. There are, I learned, four distinct levels of intensity in the erotic-romance industry: sweet, steamy, sizzling, and scorching. This seemed like pertinent informatio

And the winner is . . .

Random.org tells me the winner of the "conference goodie bag" is Crystal GB. Congrats! Send your mailing info to ak@alisonkent.com and I'll get the box sent out.

Consider this your conference goodie bag

I used Random.org to determine the winners for the How-To Books That Saved My Life giveaway, and the winners' names follow below. You three email me your mailing addresses to ak@alisonkent.com and I'll have those shipped to you from Amazon.

Jean Lauzier – Story

Kait Nolan – The Writers Journey

V – Techniques of the Selling Writer

I apologize for not following through on my plans for the LB & LI workshop series. I started each of the posts, and so I will go ahead and use them at GenReality on upcom

How-To Books that Saved My Life – LB & LI #1

Over the twenty year course of my writing career, sixteen of those years as a published author, I've purchased thousands of dollars worth of how-to, craft and advice books, as well as workshop recordings. Some I've given away having never read through as I realized the author's take on the subject didn't resonate with me. Some remain untouched on my shelves. Others I've kept because I've gleaned a tidbit or two of useful information, or even a quote such as Anne Lamott's from BIRD BY BIRD that h