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WisCon Synopsis Link

For those of you who are stopping by from the WisCon synopsis panel, here's that link:

Joshua Palmatier's Plot Synopsis Project wherein a bunch of us put up synopses of books that went on to sell. Oh, and here's the link to my WebMage Plot, and another set to a series of post I wrote on the subject a while back: Pitching and Synopses parts 1, 2, and 3. Plus, what a synopsis should do[image error]

"You must become the wolverine, Logan."

It hurt when they put the adamantium in.

Avulsion fractures in the ring and middle fingers. This is slowing me down a lot; for those of you looking for me in Madison, I won't arrive till Saturday afternoon at the earliest.[image error]

A Bunch Of Authors

Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors



I love this song, and it seems long past time it should show up here.

Ooh, and a live version:



More generally, Moxy Fruvous is a hell of band. Here's the song that initially got me hooked, King of Spain:

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Two Things of Note

First, I'm going to be starting a "so how do you get into this writing thing, anyway," series over my Tate blog. I may cross-post here from time to time, but the first one is up and it's called: "Getting Started the Tate Hallaway Way." I suspect many of those who are faithful readers of our blog here are well beyond what I'm going to chat about with this series, but it seemed apropos, so what the hey.

Second, while at a reading at the Eye of Horus on Saturday night, a woman in the audience handed

Online "Reading"

If anyone's interested in hearing me read the first chapter of Dead If I Do, you can catch it on the podcst of Vampires, Witches & Geeks here: Tate Hallaway Reads (Out Loud!)[image error]

WisCon

Hey, it just occurred to me that I'm going to be at a con this weekend and people might want to be able to find me. Here's my schedule:


Fri 9:00 - 10:15PM
Does Google Find The Real You?
Although a variety of social media tools permit you to make online spaces which feel personal, the result is visible to millions. If you’re online, you’re creating an online reputation. We’ll discuss "online reputation management" that ensures your future employers, colleagues, friends, and self are finding the rea

Self Promotion

First of all, thanks to Kelly for all the cat pictures; and I hope we are going to get a Wisconsin Dells report.

I agree with everything Kelly says about sell-promotion. Every once in a while I read a story about someone who loads his or her van with a zillion copies of a self-published book such as The Best of Norwegian Humor, and then drives through the Upper Midwest pitching the book at Lutheran church dinners and actually ends with a modest best seller.

Doesn't happen often. I have never per

Friday Cat Blogging

Black cat on a near black background. Or: Eyes.



Basket cat says: "go-way!"



Big head? Moi?



If I were bigger, I'd eat you. You know that, right?



Why yes, I am a sun worshipper. How did you guess?

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Prosposals, Done!

I finally finished the proposals for the next three Garnet Lacey books last night. And after my partner checks the last one over to make sure it's not full of stupid and/or tons of typos, I'll sent them off.

A lot of writers like to complain about getting stuck in the "never-ending series." But, as I said in a recent podcast, I'd be happy to be writing DEAD & RETIRED fifty years from now. As I was fiddling around with the potential plot skeletons of these next few books, I was struck by the fact

Proposals, My Take

Like Kelly (with whom I seem lately to be having a strange parallel existence,) I've been working on proposals this week.

I've always enjoyed writing proposals, actually. I think that synopses are most difficult when you're faced with the new writers' challenge of having to distill an already written novel into something snappy and marketable to send along with that first agent/editor package. I've been very lucky in that my first agent did that for me, and I've only rarely had to try to do that