I used to love the phrase when I was a kid. “A day late and a dollar short” It seemed so jingly. So fun. So easy to catch up to if you just tried hard enough. After all, it was…
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Category: fear, Food For Thought, future, H.L. Stephens, HL Stephens, hope, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, mistakes, Mister Marmee, mystery, publish, publishing, submission, Tor Books, writing
We’ve all had that dream. No, I am not talking about the dirty bathroom dream where all of the stalls make the use of an outhouse at the yearly fair seem like a delightful prospect. Nor am I referring to…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, fear, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, mistakes, publish, publishing, query letters, triumph, writing
Since my levels of public humiliation know no bounds, I have decided to share some of my many adventures in sending out the dreaded query letter. There are enough self-help blogs out there to tell you the right way of…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, fear, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mistakes, publish, publishing, query letters, writing
I got a terrible wake up call the other day. It was a bone-chilling, armpit moistening, nerve wracking kind of day that got me thinking about the direction the world is taking. I nearly lost a huge chunk of my…
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We are always admonished never to judge a book by its cover, but in truth our judgment of packaging is a prejudice we apply liberally every day. Industries of every shape, size, color, kind, and creed play upon this judgmental…
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