From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Need help with your grammar?

29 December 2005

I found a terrific site with grammar lessons, everything from verbs & pronouns to predicate nominative to whatever you need help with.
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Title Scorer

25 December 2005

LuLu has a nifty little title scoring program. For curiousity’s sake, I ran a title from one of my novels through it…
Black Light… This book title has a 69.0% chance of being a bestseller title.
Cool!
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Best sellers

20 December 2005

I enjoy reading Andy Zack’s blog – he’s got a lot of great advice for writers, given that he’s an agent.
In one of his entries, he talks about what it takes to make a best-seller, not that he necessarily knows, or that anyone necessarily knows.
This brings me back to something I read a long time [...]

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Submitting to the Black Hole

10 December 2005

You submit something to a publisher and then you wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. Sound familiar?
They frequently have guidelines on their site or in a Writer’s Market book, but how close to truth is that?
Now you can find out.
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