Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: Is there are maket for alternative-lifestyle romances? AK: I have one that’s taken over two years. But it’s a good market. It’s got […]
Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 From here out, it’s mostly audience questions. Q: I’ve edited a lady’s memoirs. It’s a WWII story. I’m not qualified to be an agent.
Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: Some basic questions about contracts. First, do you have verbal or written contracts? What are the basic clauses? What should not be included
Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: What do you think about the trend for agents to request shorter fiction synopses of one to three pages? AK: I’m still old
I wrote furiously through the whole thing, but please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 A committee came up with the first set of questions. See Part VI and following for
The “Write Brain” session was held at Cottonwood Artists’ School, across from the new America the Beautiful Park. (I’ve heard talk the school was to be closed and razed to build a hotel. But everything was full speed ahead, as far as I could tell.) When I pulled into the parking lot, other cars were
…or two. On Wednesday, I went to a trial (for me) meeting of the Pikes Peak Writers group, “What Literary Agents Want, featuring Literary Agents Sandra Bond and AnitaKushen.” The writer’s group, among other things, holds an annual, 3-day Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Here‘s a link to the 2006 conference to give an idea of
by Jonathan Coulton and Our Friends at WoW. A delightful, somewhat-folksy plea by a zombie to his former co-worker. And here‘s his home site. (via Doyce.)
Mmmmm…..chocolate…. Heh. I’ve had this brand of chocolate (Vosges). It was waaaay to expensive. But this, I may actually fork out the $6.00 for, because what have you lived for in life, if you have turned your back on the ability to taste “Mo’s Bacon Bar”? (Via Accidental Hedonist)
Pakistan is a Muslim nation that split off from India in 1947. Wagah is a border crossing, in fact the only road crossing the border, between the two nations. Wearing ceremonial clothing that seems to mock the former British colonial rule than anything else, representatives perform a host of ridiculous postures and walks as the
