Since God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to a. give me a bout of mild insomnia/restless leg tonight and b. give me a bit of encouragement via email, I have decided to bestow upon you, my faithful readers – yes, all 4 of you! – a bit of a teaser for Unbreak Her Heart. Especially for those of you who have read earlier versions, but not this one. Yes, Angela and Penny, I’m Read more
Chip MacGregor point out on his blog yesterday that only about 15 agents represent 95% of the Christian books out there. Fifteen. Fif. Teen. Of those 15, a number (including Mr. MacGregor) only take on clients who have been previously published or are strongly recommended by their current clients or have something else going for them (it appears that the agency Karen Kingsbury works with, for instance, represented Sarah Palin and Going Rouge. Governor Palin Read more
I’ve read three books this weekend :). It’s been a LONG time since I’ve done that! Saturday, my sis and I took all three girls to get library books. I picked up three. Here are the reviews: Saturday night, I read Always a Bridesmaid by Andrea Boeshaar. It was… okay. Spoilers coming. It’s the only book I’ve read by this author so I don’t know if it’s the author or this particular book or what, Read more
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of Read more
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that Read more
I caved in and downloaded Liquid Story Binder. So far I can’t decide how much I like it. I haven’t played with it too much but when I went back and tried to outline and timeline and dossier [like how dossier is a verb there?] everything from Unbreak Her Heart, it just frustrated me. It could be that it will work much better when starting from scratch or when I’m not feeling the ‘I ONLY Read more
I think I may be falling in love, sight unseen, with Liquid Story Binder. It can, like, make timelines! Do you know how COOL that is?! I have an Excel table in a Word doc that I have literally torn hair out over trying to make the timelines work. To see if I had it right. And it has a character generator. And you can write individual chapter files [my preferred way of writing most Read more
It doesn’t take much to give me a crisis of confidence. It never has. They come more seldom and are over more quickly than they used to be, but they still occur way too frequently for my taste. I’m doing better than I was a couple hours ago. Becki helped me formulate a plan. It’s this: Continue to improve query letter and manuscript Send out a few more queries Talk [again] to a friend who Read more
Today is the day I (sort of) became an official author. I got my first rejection! Yesterday, sent my very first query ever to agent extraordinaire Nathan Bransford and, as expected, he rejected me today. He doesn’t rep my genre, but he has a fun blog and says that he loves query letters. One post is even labeled, ‘When in doubt, query me’ – so I did. He sent a nice, polite form rejection. So Read more