Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 15th, 2008
How Not to Sell a Book
ost people sell because they write a great book, write an awesome query, and then land an agent and an editor. Now, I won’t say anything about the book (at least not now), but I sold because I can’t write queries.
This is the story of how that happened.
After literally months of struggling with a [...]
37 Comments » - Posted in publishing by CM
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Pele pictures!
ook, it’s a puppy! Most of the pictures go after the jump so that those who are uninterested in puppies do not need to observe. Many thanks to all my wonderful friends who threw me a puppy shower in San Francisco. It was the last thing I expected at RWA–and as you can see, [...]
21 Comments » - Posted in fur by CM
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
First sale!
uppy pictures will follow soon–but I wanted to announce here that my awesome agent, Kristin Nelson, has just finished my sale to HQN at auction. PROOF BY SEDUCTION will be released in Fall of 2009, and the second book–still working on that one–will follow shortly.
I will have a longer post–with all the many [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, publishing by CM
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Tuesday!
ight now, the only thing I can think about is next Tuesday at 11 AM central. For years and years–since I was barely eight years old–I have dreamed of getting a dog. My very own doggy–not one shared by brothers and sisters, but MY dog. But I have also tried to be [...]
