Monthly Archives: December 2006

Crap-o-Meter, Part 3: Results

The results are in at Miss Snark’s page. I’m really, really pleased she didn’t eviscerate the thing. I’m looking forward to seeing some of the reader comments, too. I can retool my query letter a bit and maybe see some more positive results. Based on what I’ve read so far on the crap-o-meter, my early …

28 December 2006 – 9:37 am | By tlitchfo | Posted in Writing | Comments (0)

Christmas Vacation

I’ll be traveling for the next ten days, so posting will be sporadic at best. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

21 December 2006 – 5:12 pm | By tlitchfo | Posted in Writing | Comments (0)

Crap-o-Meter, Part 2

Here’s the hook I sent in for Miss Snark’s Crap-o-Meter. It’s number 492 on the list, so it’ll probably be Thurs. or Fri. when she gets to it, at the earliest. I’ll post a link. The day after Mark Roth graduates from the University of Washington he reads about the murder of his mother in …

18 December 2006 – 9:24 am | By tlitchfo | Posted in Agents, Writing | Comments (1)

Crap-o-Meter

Miss Snark is doing another Crap-o-Meter. This one will evaluate a writer’s ‘hook,’ which, presumably, is the meat of a query. The max. word count is 250, and she’s given us a twelve hour window to get our e-mail to her. The examples she gives all sound like book jacket copy, so I’m going to …

13 December 2006 – 3:00 pm | By tlitchfo | Posted in Agents, Writing | Comments (0)