Selling My Soul #20
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I’ll keep this week’s musing short and sweet. Why? Because there’s not much to say. Nothing to gripe over that I haven’t complained about before*** and nothing worthy of a cheer. Given what […]
Selling My Soul #19
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. Sometimes, in this “adventure” of querying, I feel like I’m back in school and facing mid-terms or finals week tests for all of my classes. Every literary agent wants different information and materials. They […]
Selling My Soul #18
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. Dear Larry: Thank you for your query for FINDING JOHN MUIR. Although this sounds intriguing, I’m afraid it isn’t right for me. I have a lot on my plate right now and am being extremely […]
Selling My Soul #17
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I paid $99 for a history lesson. And it was a good one! A little over a month ago, I decided to spend a few bucks at the Manuscript Academy website and get […]
Selling My Soul #16
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. The blank screen I try to fill with good enough words to create a novel have often grappled with faith. Which means I live in the borderlands. Of the novels I’ve written and tried […]
Selling My Soul #15
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. To use an inadequate analogy, my query letters seem like planes circling an airport while waiting for instructions to land. I recall a New Years trip to visit my wife’s family in Wisconsin. Though […]
Selling My Soul #14
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I’d prefer to write about the positive. To craft words that are life-affirming. Accentuate the positive, so said song writers Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. It’s much healthier to embrace the writer’s battle cry of: […]
Selling My Soul #13
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. The first literary agent to represent me and my writing came by way of the lowly semicolon. You know, this little and infrequently used punctuation: ; One of Merriam-Webster’s explanations is: A semicolon […]
Selling My Soul #12
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I am worried. I am wondering. Now, with over thirty query letters launched into the wild and wicked and randomly wise internet, to people I don’t know, who live in places far from my zip […]
Selling My Soul #11
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. BEFORE I’m writing the first part of this week’s musing before my big date on Tuesday, June 24. After finding what appears to be a reputable website for writers (Manuscript Academy), I decided to take […]