Category: Querying

Friday Morning FYI – 7/22/2016

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Welcome to your Friday Morning Sunday Evening FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

I’m super late on this week’s FYI because I spent Friday getting tattooed and writing, and Saturday cleaning my place, doing a lot of yoga and meditation, and writing. I didn’t have time earlier in the week to think on this either because I was busy finalizing a short story for an anthology submission I sent out Thursday. I cry your pardon in advance for being both late and selfish, but that submission is this week’s FYI:

Send a brother some good thoughts for his submission, yeah?

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Beta Reader Archetypes

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I love my beta readers. All of them. If I could, I’d buy them Lexuses, just like artificial rich people do in those obnoxious say-I-love-you-at-Christmas-by-giving-them-a-car-with-a-bigass-bow-on-it commercials. Yes, that much.

If you’re not familiar, a beta reader is someone to whom you show your polished novel (not an early draft–that would be an alpha reader), and ask for feedback. In working with many of the same beta readers for my second novel I used for my first, I noticed things I hadn’t anticipated or previously spotted.

And when I notice stuff I think might be helpful, I stick in on here. You’re welcome, interwebz.

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Friday Morning FYI – 3/20/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is all about patience:

Sometimes we have to work on someone else’s schedule. Or with someone else’s schedule. Whatever. The point is, you can’t make your phone ring, and the Refresh button is not your friend. Walk away. It’ll come when it comes.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Aaaaaaaaaand ‘Send’: The Courage to Query

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WARNING – hastily-written, unnecessarily-long, thought-streamy post ahead.

 

So I’ve started querying for my 57,000 word high-concept Middle Grade Contemporary Fantasy (whew) novel. If you’ve never written a book, you couldn’t know what an emotional rollercoaster it is from start to finish, including the part where you pitch it to publishing professionals. Let me explain.

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