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J. Kathleen Cheney ([personal profile] j_cheney) wrote2007-04-02 07:24 pm

You never know

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?

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2007-04-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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 [livejournal.com profile] melissajm and [livejournal.com profile] jjschwabach, so we're not big pros and can't answer with great authority. We can, however, pretend we have great authority!

[identity profile] aliettedb.livejournal.com 2007-04-03 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What should go into a query letter?
What's standard mss format?

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2007-04-03 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice...I'll forward those to the gang...

Thank!