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My friend invited me to a movie night up in Seattle, but I wasn’t really feeling up to driving all the way up there tonight after work (still fighting this stupid sinus infection–so much that I even decided to give up dairy again, this time for at least several weeks to see if it will … Read more

Continued from Part 5 (For anyone coming to this late, this is a talk from Life, the Universe, and Everything, a symposium/convention hosted at BYU in Provo, Utah, every February.) Now we get to the most interesting part! You’ve found a publisher who is interested in your book. You get an offer! Now what? Working … Read more

Continued from Part 4 One last cliche for you, and then I can share the meat of the talk tomorrow–what happens once you get that contract.  It’s not you, it’s me   If you’ve followed the submission guidelines and your book is the right genre that the publisher is looking for, intended for the right … Read more

Continued from Part 3 Don’t play games   This goes back to “be yourself.” Simple and professional is the name of the game. There are no tricks to getting published. It’s all about the writing. Write well, write a good story, and if it’s also marketable you’ll find the right publisher eventually.   You might … Read more

Continued from Part 2 Play the field   You’ve heard this one before, right? When you’re first getting out there in the dating world, you can’t just zoom in on one person. You have to get to know a lot of people, figure out who has what you’re looking for. Who matches you.  

Well, I’m on a roll right now, and Law and Order is on the boring side, so I have time for one more cliche post tonight. Here you go–I think I’ll actually post a couple. Continued from Part 1 Put your best foot forward   Sending out a submission that isn’t as perfect as you … Read more

Seeing as how my LTUE talk is all put together, it doesn’t require any thought for me to at least give you a little beginning of the talk. I can’t post the PowerPoint, because wow, that would take up a lot of space, but I can reproduce the points I made and hope you can … Read more

I came home from work sick today and ended up sleeping a good six hours and will probably go back to bed early. I tell you this because I wish I could participate in the discussion of the way that we treat normalcy and people on the fringes of society in fantasy over at fangs_fur_fey   that blackholly    … Read more

Here are some upcoming topics that I’ve been meaning to blog about but haven’t due to time constraints (or the fact that I never thought of them until this weekend). This is your place to comment and tell me other things you’d like to see here on my LJ. Planned soon: A recap of my LTUE talk, Collaboration: … Read more

I forgot to mention that I-Sci-Fi, a live internet broadcast that has talked with pretty much every science fiction and fantasy author out there, did a show at LTUE last week. You can find the podcast of the interview with me here, in Part 2 of 2 (I’m not sure how to link each episode … Read more