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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I got a great thank-you gift from the con committee, that I just had to share pictures of. It included a great tote bag (I’m all about the great tote bags!)… a funny bumper sticker that I haven’t quite decided …