I hit hundreds of writers’ blogs every week (except this week, when my Internet connection has been squirrelly. Arrgghh.) But I do like to keep up with followers and people who comment here. Thing is—with all those blogs to check—I only have a moment for each one, so some of you are losing me. If I can’t grasp in a moment what your blog is about, who you are, what you write—and comment or follow if I choose, I’m out of there.I’m not saying this is true of every blog reader. There may be lots of blocked writers leisurely surfers who...
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Sunday, 20 February 2011
This week former agent Nathan Bransford asked the Nathanites if we thought blogging had peaked. I don’t see much evidence of that, although my own stats are down. But I think that’s caused by more blogging rather than less. More readers are becoming bloggers, and we can’t all keep up with each other’s sparkling cybermusings.More bloggers means the readers—and advertising funds—are spread thinner. This means blogging for money is indeed fading. But as tech blogger Tom Johnson pointed out, if you “let it accompany your career choice, your blog...
Sunday, 13 February 2011
I’m working on a couple of new projects—watch this space for exciting developments—so I’m running a New! Improved! version of an oldie-but-goodie. The original post garnered a visit and an approving nod from agent Janet Reid—the Query Shark herownself.******I belong to the generation of women who were told we were more likely be shot by terrorists than find husbands. Several decades later, we’re all writing books about our fabulous single lives—as desperate now for literary representation as we once were for the white dress/gold ring thing.I haven’t...
Sunday, 6 February 2011
I figure this is an appropriate post for the #1 TV-watching day in the U.S. Enjoy the chicken wings, football fans!But first, congratulations are in order. In Nathan Bransford’s Most Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Contest last week, 2 of the 17 winners (out of more than 1500) are regular followers of this blog!Congratulations, Ann and Ben. Maybe some of that good writing mojo will rub off on the rest of us.Memoirist Ann Best got an hon. mention for her wonderfully evocative piece, and Beniot LeLièvre placed among the six finalists...
Thursday, 3 February 2011
I’ve been given yet another lovely award—by the amazingly versatile writer and “mommy-blogger” Aisha Iqbal, a Pakistani-American writer represented by the Sandra Dijkstra agency.This means I have to tell you 7 more things about myself:1) I live in (well, right next to) the place Oprah just named the “happiest town in America." I figure I must have done something really great in my last lifetime to deserve to live in San Luis Obispo.2) I’ll be...
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