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Patience is as Patience Does

Thomas Wolfe has won a chest full of awards and honorary doctorate degrees for his work.  Most of the recognition came as a result of his non-fiction work, (The Right Stuff; for example) although he did manage to pick up recognition for his fiction work as well.  Not all the recognition for his fiction was […]

Submission is as Submission Does

Since I am in the sweaty process of submitting my work to find an agent and/or publisher, I have come across many different kinds of submission policies.  Some policies are very simple; send a query letter and we’ll get back in five minutes to tell you that we can’t do you for XYZ reasons.(You can […]

Rule is as Rule Does

Rule is as Rule Does I was doing some research (ahem make that surfing the net) when I came across an article from the Guardian UK describing a number of author provided rules for writing.  I have already published Elmore Leonard’s famous ten rules list back in November, but I was taken with the list […]