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There is a cat trying to crawl into my lap and she is using all her cla—OW!

Oct 24 By Marjorie

Thank you everyone for your kind words regarding the cover of the next Dirk & Steele novel!  I should clarify, though—the fellow on the front is not Koni.  I’m not ready to write his story quite yet, though I have ideas for him.  Nope, The Wild Road is about someone entirely new. 

Kind of. 

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From Fangs, Fur, & Fey, examples of winning query letters, which are all pretty cool. A query letter is hard to write, so these are good to take a look at, whether or not you’re ready to submit your work to agents and editors.  Check back every day this week—this will be going on for a bit. 

I would show you my query letter (and it’s possible I already have, in some earlier post), but as every agent I queried rejected me, and I sold only when I finally submitted the first three chapters of Tiger Eye to the slush piles, I suspect that my skills in selling myself in only one page are rather lacking.

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Via Scalzi’s blog, The Big Idea with Jeff Somers, author of The Electric Church, a book I absolutely loved. 

Because of AC�s focus on weekly delivery of chapters, I began writing in a way I�d never tried before: Consciously viewing each chapter as a stand-alone reading experience that would have to maintain interest for a whole week while the reader waited for the next one. I started writing each chapter as almost a mini-arc, with a beginning, middle, and climax. Each chapter ends on a “beat,” which can either be a revelation, a new mysterious development, or, at times, just having the main character banged over the head and knocked out. I am overly fond of that last one, actually.

So am I.

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Finally, Glen Campbell.  Because it’s that kind of day.  And I love this song.

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About Me


I write comic books and novels about grumpy warrior women, eccentric demons, plucky fox girls, and men who can shape-shift into tigers. If a merman or gargoyle shows up, all the better!  To learn more about me, please go here.

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