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My only excuse is holiday madness, plus I will now freely admit I did too much during WFC. I had no business trying to have a party -- because I think the people who came enjoyed themselves, but I couldn't enjoy it. I didn't know the banquet was Saturday night, or I would have had a much smaller affair -- gotta have two nights for editors and agents to do their thing with clients. (I don't currently have an editor, and my agent never comes to these things. So I don't do that sort of thing.) and I never do banquet because I can't eat most of that they offer. So --

Party went well, enjoyed meeting people, and IncanDragon and BevHale were excellent hostesses, too, and I thank them for their care of my friends and acquaintances.

Got to talk with Ginjer Buchanan during the convention, and she's interested in seeing anything I have to show her. I have passed this on, and I hope that my agent has sent the new outline and chapter of the new Allie novel (SPIRIT TRACKS) to her. Ginjer did ask if I had the rights back to the other two, and I am pleased to say we did that.

I had a reading (there are advantages to knowing the concom) and to my amazement the room was nearly full. I stopped counting at 30 and tried to read well. It was the first chapter of SPIRIT TRACKS. Then I promptly panicked and fled, since I wasn't doing well and didn't want people to see the stress aphasia. But Inky tells me the reading was a good one. Maybe there are people who want to see another book.

Last week I broke down and bought a membership to WFC 2007. I don't know if I will go, but I hope to have a sale by then, and be back in The Game.

Personal stuff behind the cut )

I actually started a new story -- it's coming out tiny pieces at a time. We'll see where it wants to go. I'm still in the darker parts of the story, in my head, and it swirls. I wanted to write something with humor in it. Just calling it the Curse Book for now.

And that's what has been happening...
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http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/index.html

AOL Group Writing for Publication -- I'm talking about Synopses!

10 pm, EDT

Footnote: The book I use for my synopsis class is
WRITING THE FICTION SYNOPSIS: A step by step approach
by Pam McCutcheon *** ISBN 0-9654371-1-6

Also, I'm too rushed to remember the html today, but many writers have interesting information to share about writing. Find the web sites of M.H. Bonham, Holly Lisle, Irene Radford, Patricia C. Wrede, and Michael Stackpole (podcasts) just for starters.

In some things, we're a Greek chorus -- in other things, we have very different ideas and why we recommend what we do.

Visit them -- learn from them.

And I'll try to get around to a site upgrade this next year. New year starts either 10/3 (when I got the call that Warner wanted FIRE SANCTUARY) or 10/31 (most of my ancestors came from Keltic lands, so Samhain makes more sense than the other.) At that point, I'll put up the high points of my agent and synopsis articles for Writer's Digest Magazine.

And on another front -- Yahoo has eaten my digests. Bah, humbug! Must "unbounce"....

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