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Entries from December 2006

Crap-o-Meter, Part 3: Results

December 28th, 2006 · No Comments

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 attempts [...]

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Tags: Writing

Christmas Vacation

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

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

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Crap-o-Meter, Part 2

December 18th, 2006 · 1 Comment

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 the [...]

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Tags: Agents · Writing

Crap-o-Meter

December 13th, 2006 · No Comments

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 give [...]

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Tags: Agents · Writing