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- July 18th, 2015, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 819041
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
Re-release of a Cold War novel on Amazon.com. The re-written and revised of Waltzing in the Shadows, Information Leaks Through the Iron Curtain @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
- July 7th, 2015, 3:00 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Blurb: Which is better?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7959
Re: Query Blurb: Which is better?
I like #2 also.
- June 30th, 2015, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23976
Re: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
The ironic if sarcastic or satirical point of these types of composition exercises is reverse psychology. Conquer your writing vices through giving them a full run of imagination. This is a kind of free-association, stream-of-consciousness activity. Let temptation flow wild and unfettered, so to sp...
- June 23rd, 2015, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23976
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
June 23, 2015 by Mark Shea @ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2015/06/10-steps-to-becoming-a-better-fiction-writer.html For those of you pursuing a writing life. Here are my tips: 1. Make stuff up 2. Use puns 3. Work the word “tergiversation” into your dialogue somewhere, preferably several tim...
- June 20th, 2015, 1:49 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Does this Blurb Make You Want to Read the Novel?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6468
Does this Blurb Make You Want to Read the Novel?
Walking in the Vienna Woods – with a target on his back. Bill Sampson thought the desk job in an obscure office of the American embassy in Vienna would provide him with a three year vacation. Instead, because of a friendship with a woman who's a member of the Austrian state police, he finds himself ...
- June 12th, 2015, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 819041
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
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Another excerpt from my Cold War Novel, Waltzing in the Shadows. This is a true story! Read it @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
Another excerpt from my Cold War Novel, Waltzing in the Shadows. This is a true story! Read it @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
- June 8th, 2015, 11:56 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query for Sonora Symphony
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4010
Re: Query for Sonora Symphony
Hi Longknife, I only have one small thing to add. PTSD is the acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I'm sure agents will know that, so just thought it will only help if you get that little bit right. :D Best of luck! It is not longer medically considered a "disorder" I know it's pic...
- June 6th, 2015, 7:48 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 819041
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
Many of you may be too young to remember or have lived through the Cold War. The big fear of NATO was that an overwhelming force of Warsaw Pact armor would invade Germany through the Fulda Gap and allied forces wouldn't be able to hold them back. My latest blog post is an insight into what a Russian...
- May 12th, 2015, 1:15 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: 18th Century Jesuit California
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8367
Re: 18th Century Jesuit California
Once I found a such books in my college library but the next day I haven't found that. Someone already took that book before me. Till then I am looking for some more books like those but I couldn't find any. If you click on the link in my signature to go to my blog, you will find a number of posts ...
- May 10th, 2015, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Connect With a Critique Partner
- Topic: CP request for crime/social drama
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3284
Re: CP request for crime/social drama
How many words?
I don't do editing or grammatical analysis.
I don't do editing or grammatical analysis.
- May 8th, 2015, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Indie Snippets
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9207
Re: Indie Snippets
The gunman looked at his friend and didn’t say a word. He knew it would do no good. Girls meant nothing in his society, only something to be used. Their age counted little. However, the abused girl was Roberto’s baby sister and he had looked after her from the time she lay in her crib. In addition,...
- April 29th, 2015, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query for Sonora Symphony
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4010
Re: Query for Sonora Symphony
Okay, after lots of great suggestions, here another version: Dear xxx, He jerks upright, fists clenched, stomach cramped in agony, He can't remember what roused him. He knows not who he is, where he came from, or how he came to be in a hospital hooked up to tubes and lines. I am seeking representati...
- April 28th, 2015, 12:40 pm
- Forum: Synopses and Plot Outlines
- Topic: Synopsis for Sonora Symphony
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6623
Synopsis for Sonora Symphony
Sonora Symphony A Warrior's Wounds Healed by Papago Indian Medicine Synopsis Staff Sergeant Ray Daniels is a veteran of multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his last assignment, his platoon was sent out to capture Taliban chieftains in a nearby village. Ray sensed it was a trap and tried t...
- April 28th, 2015, 12:40 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query for Sonora Symphony
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4010
Query for Sonora Symphony
Dear xxx, I am seeking representation for Sonora Symphony, a contemporary novel of 109,000 words. Your blog and agency website indicates your interest in the American west and spirituality. (This to be personalized for each agent.) Through the eyes of American Indians, this novel contains both. This...
- April 27th, 2015, 1:55 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 819041
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
Did you know that, before the arrival of the Americans, Native Californians did not have tribes?
Huh?
You're gonna ask what I'm talking about. Well, check out Father Serra's Legacy @ http://msgdaleday.blogspot.com and find out for yourselves.
Huh?
You're gonna ask what I'm talking about. Well, check out Father Serra's Legacy @ http://msgdaleday.blogspot.com and find out for yourselves.