Tag: novel
group name: writespeak
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April 26, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
Some authors have made crafting a novel around the latest hot topic their particular specialty. The first one who comes to mind is Jodi Picoult. She has written engaging and deeply felt stories about . . . more
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August 30, 2007 07:18 PM EDT --
Town House is an amazing story by Toronto author Tish Cohen, whom I met in June with Gather member and author Patry Francis and Vermont author Jennifer McMahon. Not only did Tish write her book in three . . . more
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August 31, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
“Your opening scene was vivid,” The Donald wrote in his reply letter passing on my request that he represent my novel, Hollow Vengeance, “but that was not enough for me to keep turning . . . more
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September 21, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
Canadian author Tish Cohen and author of debut novel, Town House Town House by Tish Cohen - a book review (soon to be a movie, filmed in Boston), has published her first young adult (children's) . . . more
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August 19, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
From my novel, when the protagonist was waiting for the girl he loves, before proposal...
Waiting for you, I stood in the middle of the faint-lit room. It was too huge. Too dark, without . . . more
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September 04, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
As most people here know, Terry Shaw is the winner of The Gather First Chapters Writing Competition that ran last January. Geoffrey Edwards, another Gather member, is the runner up in the Gather First . . . more
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August 29, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
Anyone who's been near me recently knows I have lately become a big fan of "The Donald." Maass, that is, the New York literary uber agent; not the New York real estate one with the . . . more
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July 26, 2007 04:21 PM EDT --
Like most children his age, Thayne Davidson Miller, III, often said he hated his very existence. He didn't really hate it, but he didn't love it either. Thayne enjoyed some big advantages . . . more
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September 10, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
*Novel's title.
*Type” of novel best suited to this idea:
*Mainstream/ Main idea (Describe):
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*Category (Genre):
***check . . . more
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October 05, 2007 08:26 PM EDT --
What's your mission?
Like many of us, I have a book I want to sell, first to a publisher and then to thousands of people on the edge of change--I have defined my market. But I have not stated in a . . . more
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May 15, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
Book Excerpts from Bestselling Authors
JANEOLOGY by Karen Harrington
Janeology
by Karen Harrington
ISBN-10: 160164020X
Publisher: Kunati Books
CHAPTER ONE . . . more
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August 28, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
***This article only pertains to my experiences with electronic publishers. I have no idea how the "Big Boy" publishers in New York handle things (Del Rey, Bantam, Avon, etc.), but . . . more
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October 14, 2007 04:20 PM EDT --
Damian McNicholl is a long-time Gather member (February 14, 2006) (http://damianmcnicholl.gather.com) who grew up in Northern Ireland and went to law school in Wales; in the 1990s, Damian came to the US . . . more
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May 21, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
These are a very tiny part of my vampire romance. This part is about how Julian dfeels when he drinks blood.
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Quit drinking blood.
A voice. . . . more
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May 26, 2007 07:55 AM EDT --
Dialogue Should Fit the Characters:
Consider what your character is like and have what they say be in synch with their nature. You wouldn’t expect a rough and tumble, hard drinkin’ detective . . . more
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August 12, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
As an entirely unexpected surprise recently, I received an e-mail telling me Writer's Digest was making rebroadcasts of select sessions from the Pre-BEA Writer's Conference available to . . . more
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June 05, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
Well hallelujah, you've written your One Big Novel. Now what? Chances are you've been eyeballing some publishing houses while writing it. But hang on there, Tex. You don't . . . more
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August 21, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
By Saralee Rosenberg
www.saraleerosenberg.com
I 'm not rich, famous, young or drop dead gorgeous. But the minute people learn that I'm an author, you'd think I was all of the . . . more
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August 24, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
After thirty years of being happily married to the same wonderful person and 111 kid-years of being a parent of six practically perfect children, few things phase me anymore. I thought I had pretty . . . more
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September 18, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
Ted, it is amazing, as I read this piece, how much emotion this brings back to me. It reminded me of how everyone around me always thinking that everything is okay, fine and that all is well, including . . . more
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