http://letterhead.yuudachi.net The Author's encapsulated works Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:18:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I picked up a copy of the Writer's Market 2008 Deluxe Edition, complete with website access. Got it for $10 off at Barnes & Noble; the lady at the counter pointed out the online discount when I expressed some adversity to laying down 50 clams for the book. Shipping was ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=32 I liked the "Word of the Day" theme, but it's... cluttering up the main page, in lieu of the more important posts, so I've decided to cycle it back some. There'll still be more Words, but they'll be once per week or so instead of once per day. http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=31 It took place some years in the future; technology had progressed remarkably, but society was still the same old, same old. Specifically, I was part of a team doing a slum-raid - possibly a drug bust, it's hard to remember. We ended up in a firefight, and I accidentally shot ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=30 Today's word is the noun, "cockade." A cockade is a rosette (or a knot of ribbons) worn in a hat as a badge of office or as part of a uniform. http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=29 Maybe it's just me, but the articles in Writer's Market proper seemed less... helpful, I guess, than the ones in the Guide to Literary Agents. Perhaps this is because on the whole it is a less targetted, more general volume, but I don't really feel as if I got very ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=28 Here's what I learned, in brief, from the Guide to Literary Agents. First, while it's not completely necessary to have an agent, it helps an awful lot. Agents tend to specialize in certain types of books, and will not only know which editors and which publishing houses will be most interested ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=27 I've just finished reading the articles section in the 2007 Guide to Literary Agents. I'm debating which of the three I should tackle next, but I imagine they all share some articles, such as the one on drafting query letters and synopses... More information about what I learned, in brief, ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=26 Today's word is the noun, "ermine." It describes either a stoat, or a stoat's white fur. http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=25 My research materials have arrived - the 2007 editions of Writer's Market, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. They're library loaners (because I'm broke and unemployed at the moment) but there's a good moral to this story nonetheless - while ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=24 Last night at choir rehearsal, I met a recently-retired Harvard professor who had contacts with the Signet Society; she possibly was the head of it for a time, I'm not completely sure (need to clarify.) I introduced myself and told her of my book, and that I'm trying to get ... http://letterhead.yuudachi.net/?p=23