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Nathan Bransford wrote:

BransfordGroupie wrote:I wonder who is filling Jacob Wonderbar's shoes.

Will Smith's son!

AWESOME!!!!!

I love casting my MS. This is for my YA.

For my hero, I need brooding with a wicked sense of humor = awesome smirks.
So I envision Ian Somerhalder

for my heroine, I see her as sassy, speaking her mind even when she shouldn't.
So I see Emma Watson.

Oh why not I'll play... This was the first query letter I drafted (hahahahaha it was terrible) Dear Ms. agent, Broken is a 150,000-word completed Young Adult novel that is a forbidden love story having the same intensity as Stephenie Meyer’s series with an urban edge similar to Holly Black’s or Alys...

Disclaimer ;) these are just my opinions and suggestions so take with a grain of salt. Just got back first two rejections, eagerly anticipating (ha!) more. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Dear SuperAgent, I agree with what someone else mentioned here - STRONGER HOOK - like - Sometimes life can depen...

Someone asked about wix.com, or other such free sites. The advice I've read is avoid these sites because they have ads and it makes it look unprofessional. I suggest trying Wordpress first. It's a blog site that you can use for free. They off lots if nice looking templates, and you can even design y...

Original Stars Wars!!!

You mean besides cruising through all your favorite forums and catching up and posting.....well, Tweetdeck distracts me because it pops up on my computer. My 3 yo daughter wanting to watch Harry Potter (I get sucked in every time). But my biggest distraction is my TBR pile. And it just keeps growing...

Top of my list is Harry Connick Jr's When My Heart Finds Christmas
Then Amy Grant's Tennessee Christmas (have to love the hometown girl)
And finally, I love Enya's Christmas album that was just released.

I posted on AW, and generally I like the forum. The only problem I have is how large it is - you can get lost, and read posts for days. But what I do like about it is that there are all sorts of genre writers there that are willing to help. The place I use the most is Romance Divas - you don't have ...

I have my own website - or blog - at my domain name. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but just remember to keep it professional. I have read that many agents will Google you as they read your query. So if you are ranting about the submission process or pub industry in genera...

I consider myself a reading whore, I will reading just about anything if it will "transport me off this rock" for at least a little while. But I find that I read more of what I'm writing at that moment. Right now, I writing YA paranormal and I find myself drawn in the bookstore to those ti...