Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Now, call me old school, but this doesn't really seem like a query to me. It's not a query. It's the first 500 words of her WIP. Query feedback is a few threads up! :) I think this works really well. I can feel Jim's desperation---Eddie's nonchalant replies are a perfect foil---and hear his voice. ...

Title: The Pigeon Drop Genre: Mystery The young man caught Judith's attention the moment he entered the library. It wasn't just the way his gaze skittered away from hers, never landing on anything for more than a split second, or the way he huddled inside his long black duster, which was far too hea...

At a friend's suggestion, I'm finding that the Review feature in Word helps me edit as effectively on screen as on paper--as effectively as I ever manage the process, anyway. I'm still scribbing in the margins, and <ctrl-F> makes it easier to mark the ripples of change than flipping through the enti...

Making Spirits Bright is one of my favorite Christmas albums (Dino makes any list on which I can logically put him). I will agree with the odd vibe in "Baby it's Cold Outside"--I always wonder if she'll be found in the spring when the snowman melts . . . My parents surprised me last year ...