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GUTGAA Pitch Contest #38: DAUGHTER4254
DAUGHTER4254YA Dystopian/Futuristic60,000Query:Sixteen-year-old Daughter4254 lives in a pragmatic world where humanities are outlawed. No names. No art. No music. Her creative soul is suffocating. To...
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GUTGAA Pitch Contest #39: THE VIDDEN
THE VIDDENYA Dystopian58,000Query:Devonny is Vidden, an elite genetically enhanced faction of a futuristic society. At the age of sixteen she is commissioned by the Tagen to enter the Vidden Army for...
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GUTGAA Pitch Contest #40: THE PARTIZANS
THE PARTIZANSYA Paranormal79,000QueryBecoming a witch isn’t what sixteen-year-old Hannah Slaughtery expects when enrolls in an exclusive boarding school. Neither is fighting against monsters she...
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GUTGAA Pitch Contest Round One!
Welcome to the first round of the Gearing Up To Get An Agent Pitch contest! If you have no clue what GUTGAA is, go here. Everyone up to speed? Good.This week I have the honor of hosting 39 GUTGAA First...
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GUTGAA Round One Results
Whew! What a tense few days! Gearing Up to Get An Agent Round 1 was a resounding success, and I had a blast watching my four judges agonize over their votes--and tweeting them the second they were...
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Les Mis!!!
My junior year of high school, I went on choir tour from Sandy, Utah to Seattle, Washington. We rode in a tour bus. It took about (checks Google Maps...) 14 hours. At the beginning of the trip, a...
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GUTGAA Agent Week!
The Gearing Up to Get An Agent--Agent Pitch Contest is in its final round! If you're not following on Twitter already, the #GUTGAA hashtag is still going strong, so go! Talk!Since I love all things...
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Live Pitch Contest... with VLOGS! O_O
Go here for detailsSo, you may already know that I majored in Theatre Arts. Where I took scads of acting classes. This after I was the Speech and Drama Stirling Scholar for my Utah high school. I'm...
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HNTWAQ: Practice 5
It's the first Tuesday of October and I'm back with another....Read the rest hereThis time my tribute (her word, not mine, but it was so fun I had to steal it) is Mara Valderran (@MaraValderran). Mara...
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HNTWAQ: Practice 6
On Monday, I asked for volunteers on Twitter for Tuesday’s How NOT to Write a Query post. I got lots. LOTS. And since I can quite literally feel everyone’s query pain, it’s dang hard to say no. So I’ll...
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How TO Write a Query: A Practice #2 Success Story
On June 28, 2012, I critiqued Robin Hall's awesome query for LOVESENSE. From the first draft I could already tell the story would rock, but after the rewrite I helped with and who-knows-how-many...
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HNTWAQ: Practice 7
Before we do another round of How NOT to Write a Query: Practice, I want to remind everyone about the Vlog-Pitch contest coming up October 15th. Which means you have less than a week to outline (not...
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Spooktacular Pitch Contest!
Details hereGood news: Despite the name, all completed Adult, NA, YA, and MG manuscripts are invited to enter. Even if you have no spooks in yours.Bad news: Only 50 entries will go on to the agent...
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My very own PitchLive video pitch
If you've ever been curious to see what I look like while I'm talking, despair no more! After much agonizing, kicking myself, and twitter peptalks, I have finally produced my very first vlog!This is...
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Yeah, this one was for me
Sorry about the blog silence lately. I've been feeling poorly and using the excuse to binge-read. Which can be very, very fun, as I'm sure you all know.But it's not productive.So I was happy to see...
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NaNo 2012!
Yeah, I'm doing it again. This time I have an outline, even. Too bad I've let my writing endurance get all flabby and lazy. *sigh*Anyway, this next month should be interesting from a time management...
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Thanksgiving Blog Hop
I'm a sucker for just about anything Brenda Drake does these days. She has tons of awesome contests and is an all-around awesome person. I am in awe of her awesomeness. Truly.So when she starts a...
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It's Captcha Craptcha Day!
I had to join this blogfest, too, mainly because it's really easy to just say:Turn the captcha off on your blog! Blogger has wonderful spam filters that snag all the stupid spammers and ad-bombers in...
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Pitch Wars!!!
I'm still struggling through NaNo, as you can see in my sidebar. I'm a little behind, but I'm catching up. I can do this!Of course, it's made harder when awesome contests pop up toward the end of the...
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I Won NaNo!
I'd love to tell you all about NaNo this month, but I have no brain cells left to create more words today. So see this picture instead:See me chase the line all month? TIRED!This is how the calendar...
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Late to the "And You Are...?" blog hop
I didn't even see Emily King's and Tammy Theriault's blog hop until today, but I wanted to play anyway, so here I am. :)1. How many speeding tickets have you gotten?Um... none? I was pulled over for...
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Desperate for Balance
As I crossed the NaNo finish line, my husband clued me on on something: he was feeling neglected. Not just a little neglected, but crisis-neglected. I was . . . a bit shocked.If you've followed my blog...
View ArticleMy Favorite Christmas Song
In honor of the holiday, I wanted to share this song by Faith Hill. The first time I heard it, I didn't even realize it was a Christmas song until the end. Which made me love it even more.Get More: I...
View ArticleThe Soundtrack of My Name Change
Sorry for the blog silence. Real life around here has been... intense. Rather than explain, why don't you just enjoy the songs that have been running through my head?This was my theme song for the week...
View ArticleNew Name, New Blog
I'm not quite finished transferring all my gadgets to the new blog, but all my posts are there. Once I have everything transferred, I'll try to figure out how to auto-redirect everyone from here to...
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