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I’m finally getting off my butt to send query letters out for SHE. It’s not fun. Even though I have a solid query body ready to use more or less as-is, I tried to personalize the one I just sent and realized as soon as I’d clicked Send that it was less “personalized” than “sycophantic.” [...]

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Earlier this spring, I entered SHE in the Murder in the Grove contest, more for the professional critique than in hopes of winning. I didn’t win, as expected, but yesterday I got a pleasant surprise in the mail. SHE did well enough to have been a finalist in the contest. It’s getting harder for me [...]

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Murder in the Grove is two weeks away and I’m getting excited about it. I’m eager to see some of the people from last year who will be there again, and I can hardly wait to meet David Morrell. I’m sure his class on “Writing the Thriller” is going to be a huge help to [...]

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I finished the final* structural revision this morning and began the final* polish. I cut 123 words from the first four pages of the manuscript. If that’s any indication of how the rest of the process goes, I’ll end up cutting about 9,000 words from what is now a 76,000 word manuscript. Yikes. But once [...]

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I haven’t posted about my writing lately, so here’s an update:

The agent who asked to see the full manuscript of SHE passed on representing it. The rejection note was actually very encouraging–she liked the novel, and others at her agency did as well. They didn’t feel it was something they could sell because of the [...]

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