You never know

[j_cheney]

We've got an opportunity to do our advice columnish thing in a newlsetter that would get it a great deal more play than it currently gets...(The Dragon is IN)

I don't know if the newsletter person wants to upload the column straight from our own or if she wants something else, but it'll take a bit of work (mostly mine, I reckon). Once I get 3 yes answers from Carpe Libris, I'll contact her about it...but we're already a few days behind for this month.

Any burning questions for us un-famous authors to answer?

Comments

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

We may not be famous, we may not have all the answers, but we can at least be entertaining! Give us (or, more accurately, our lair-dwelling alter-egos) a try!

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

What kind of questions?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Let's see...

So far we've had...
What should I do when I'm going to a con?
What are some books you'd suggest for an aspiring writer?
I sent a mss in and it's now past the time stated on their guidelines...what should I do?
Should I type my mss on fancy paper to show the editor what kind of story it is?
What's a hook?
What are some on-line resources?

That kind of question.
This is the CL group that answers them, among them melissajm and jjschwabach, so we're not big pros and can't answer with great authority. We can, however, pretend we have great authority!

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

What should go into a query letter?
What's standard mss format?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nice...I'll forward those to the gang...

Thank!