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arcaedia. There's nothing more I can do on this story until I hear her comments, and then it gets sent off to Bantam at the end of the month.
( Musings on the writing process )
Last night I went to our RWA chapter meeting and gave my annual presentation on "How to pitch to an editor or agent" to help folks get ready for Reno. Hysterical laughter erupted when I gave the example of my first pitch to an editor, which began with the hook "It's a classic English love triangle, involving a guy, a girl and a sheep." After the pitchjennifer_dunne and I role played a pitch, and then other members of the chapter had the chance to practice their pitches.
In other news, it's time to use the hiatus to catch up on the rest of my life. There are books to read, movies to see, and I have to get serious about training for the bike trip in July.
Reading: Startedmizkit's Urban Shaman. I have dozens of books in my TBR stack all the way back to books I bought from Larry Smith at Arisia in January. Yet somehow my most recent purchase crawled off the stack and demanded I read it. Enjoying it very much so far-- I was sucked in from the first pages describing the special hell that is the end of a long plane trip.
One more note--upgraded to a paid LJ account (whee, new icons!).
Good news is that The First Betrayal is done, and is making its way to
arcaedia. There's nothing more I can do on this story until I hear her comments, and then it gets sent off to Bantam at the end of the month.( Musings on the writing process )
Last night I went to our RWA chapter meeting and gave my annual presentation on "How to pitch to an editor or agent" to help folks get ready for Reno. Hysterical laughter erupted when I gave the example of my first pitch to an editor, which began with the hook "It's a classic English love triangle, involving a guy, a girl and a sheep." After the pitch
jennifer_dunne and I role played a pitch, and then other members of the chapter had the chance to practice their pitches. In other news, it's time to use the hiatus to catch up on the rest of my life. There are books to read, movies to see, and I have to get serious about training for the bike trip in July.
Reading: Started
mizkit's Urban Shaman. I have dozens of books in my TBR stack all the way back to books I bought from Larry Smith at Arisia in January. Yet somehow my most recent purchase crawled off the stack and demanded I read it. Enjoying it very much so far-- I was sucked in from the first pages describing the special hell that is the end of a long plane trip. One more note--upgraded to a paid LJ account (whee, new icons!).
