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Agent Kristin Nelson has a couple posts up about how to build and evaluate a novel’s pitch paragraph. You know, that summary thing you tend to see on the back cover that gives you a glimpse of the plot. And once you are able to do this, you can understand…

Dean Koontz recently came out with Odd Hours, the fourth book in his Odd Thomas series, which I have been a great fan of all along. And if you missed them, don’t forget to check out the four-part webisodes he released a couple weeks ago- Odd Passenger. So what are…

It’s going up for auction tonight. Don’t miss out. Yet another beautiful piece of artistry by http://www.alexcf.com/blog/ And yes, I know beauty is a relative term here, considering it involves a severed head. But the potential uses are endless. Serve it with cranberry sauce for next Thanksgiving. Put it in…

Well, we didn’t get eaten by bears (or grues) and it turned out to be a great weekend up in the mountains. Though our early start on Saturday was hindered by two flat tires, we finally made it up and ended up doing most of a 12 mile hike that…

And camping for the night. Should be back Sunday for a birthday dinner with the folks. Here’s to hoping we don’t get eaten by a grue…I mean bear. See you on the flipside.  Subscribe in a reader

For anyone who has ever been frustrated by the query writing process, you should head on over to literary agent Nathan Bransford’s blog. Aside from being a long-time fighter for strong queries that don’t start with rhetorical questions, Bransford recently posted his thoughts on why certain queries, even when they…

I am not a runner. Nor am I a morning person. I prefer to sleep in until noon and stay up until 3am. I prefer to work out with my martial arts, rather than loping around the block to end up right where I started. Yet for the past couple…

If you’re ever going to go down in a plane crash, this is the way to do it. Of course, the entire incident wasn’t escaped without casualty, but think about how it could’ve played out with just a regular passenger plane. Yet another example of events in life that if…

This could be an interesting or frustrating experiment. It all depends on you. In the summer of 2010, the SciFi Channel is going to release an online roleplaying game that will directly relate to a current television series. Whoever plays the game, and the course that characters and events take…

If, as we talked about in an earlier post, claiming divine inspiration doesn’t get copies flying off the shelves, this author presents another textbook way to get even major news networks to mention the upcoming publication. Step 1. Rent a small plane (also, please know how to fly it, or…