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by longknife
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
by longknife
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.
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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 ...
by longknife
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?

Afghan Polo

Another excerpt from my Cold War Novel, Waltzing in the Shadows. This is a true story! Read it @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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 ...
by longknife
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.
by longknife
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,...
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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...
by longknife
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.