Nathan Bransford - The Forums

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Latest blog Post about swearing
rebeccalandsoodak.blogspot.com

I've got a crafty post from last week! Crafts that will blow your mind with a kind of nerdy theme.

Teaser Tuesday! http://www.amandaplavich.com

Oh, you guys have awesome blogs. I'm trying to hit a few a day.

Today's post is: What We Talk About When We Talk About Querying

What it's actually about is the advice you don't get when it's time to send the query out, or: how not to screw it up at the last minute. I wanted it to be funnier, but was so stinking burned out after painstakingly querying (guess what - didn't follow my advice and sent out one query with a mistake in it - nice).

I'm giving away a signed copy of 13 Reasons Why. Check out my blog and enter!

http://freckle-head.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ummer.html

I have posted my first book review on my blog, for startlingly-good debut author Suzanne McLeod's The Sweet Scent of Blood (alternate history/urban fantasy).

With the popular E3 Game convention underway, I've blogged about video gaming and its influence on the world of writing.

Video games are a perfect example of how important immersion is, and how they can help a writer to forge authentic and organic settings.

http://blog.franciscossette.com/2010/06 ... games.html

You also get to hear some of the best trailer music I've heard in a long time, courtesy of Michael McCann!

How do you handle rejection?

Link in my signature. :)

Regan Leigh wrote:How do you handle rejection?

Link in my signature. :)

Excellent post, Regan.

HillaryJ wrote:

Regan Leigh wrote:How do you handle rejection?

Link in my signature. :)

Excellent post, Regan.

Thank you! And great comment. :) I just added you on Twitter, btw.

I wrote about one element of world building in fantasy - the 'national character' of the major human race in my novel. http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2010/06/t ... eople.html

Sure do and it's a killer. In it Hilary Wagner shares the query that landed her an agent for NIGHTSHADE CITY. Her novel that already has a very nice blurb from Rick Riordan.

Here's the link:

http://theqqqe.blogspot.com/2010/06/nig ... -city.html

My latest blog post asks the question, "What qualities in a leading man really do it for you?" There has been some lively discussion, but we can always use more input!

Cyndi Tefft
ctefft@blogspot.com

Ooo, fun! Can't wait to check out what you've all posted.

Today, after seven months of reading every blog my bleary, half-sighted eyes could handle (and only actually sending out three queries in total) in a moment of pure writerly angst over all the seemingly conflicting advice and disheartening stuff out there, I couldn't help but give a newbs perspective in the form of a twist on a classic...and I hope it makes you laugh.

Clueless in Writerland

I've been serious lately, writing about my Mom, and my years as a caregiver, on the fifth anniversary of her death in a post called Wildcats http://richardlevangie.com/blog/2010/06/06/wildcats/.

Then I decided to lighten things up by imagining all the Franklin the turtle books that could have been written if the series had continued into the awkward teenage years.

http://richardlevangie.com/blog/2010/06 ... -grows-up/