www.inkthinkerblog.com — Support cancer survivors and spread the word about resources to help them and their loved ones. Visit i2y and get code for their banners to add to your website or blog.
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — Michael Stelzner’s call for nominations of Top 10 Blogs for Writers is going so well that it’s surprising even him! See the list of the 18 nominated blogs as of this morning. Show your support for your favorite blog (ahem, ahem) by going right here and leaving a comment! Nominations close on November 30, so get a move on!
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — If you don’t know the answer to that question, you’d better get yourself over to Cobwebs of the Mind, stat. Teddy’s excellent post “When Is Being Published NOT Being Published?” offers a great list of nine ways to identify and avoid a publishing scam, delivered with a sad-but-true example and his standard good humor and rakish wit. Be sure to check it out.
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I just discovered Brave New Words through Erika Dreifus’ Practicing Writing blog, and I’m so glad I did. Writer-editor-translator (note hyphens, not the exclusionary virgule, to show equivalence) Brett Jocelyn Epstein offers some fantastic advice for folks responding to job ads, a great compliment to my recent posts about finding freelance work on Craigslist and other web sources. Thanks for the link, Erika!
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www.inkthinkerblog.com — What a great idea for a blog: A lit agent’s assistant creates a blog with tips on how to get past the assistant to the agent. The tagline? “I don’t hate you. I just hate your query letter.” Awesome.
Unfortunately, I think maybe I came into the mix a little too soon. Don’t get me wrong, the concept is fantastic and the blog itself seems to have promise, but I’m not quite seeing the tips-on-how-to-get-past-the-first-line-of-defense thing in the way I expected. I guess it’s a little too deductive for my taste.
For instance, I love the first post I read. I feel that the what-not-to-do approach worked really well in this case. But I also feel that the last line of that post applies to most of the other posts themselves. It’s not like what The Rejecter is saying is wrong, and it’s not even dumb, it’s just not what I was expecting. I was hoping for real-life examples with some sort of “moral of the story” at the end. You know, how to get past The Rejecter. I’m not seeing it.
Well, correction, I saw a few hints of it in the early posts, but it seems more generally about submissions than what I thought the specific target would be. I’m just kind of bummed. But I’m hopeful that I’ll be more impressed as time goes on. I think this is one worth keeping an eye on.
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