ichabod

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Just in case any of you aspiring writers out there are interested, now is the time to enter your 50,000-150,000 word novel into Amazon’s contest. I put Vodnik in the running for this last year, and I got a Publisher’s Weekly review out of it, which was kind of fun. You keep the rights to your work, and if you win, you get a 25,000 dollar contract with Penguin. Good luck with that. 🙂 I entered Ichabod this year, just because it’s batty enough to give it a shot. I’ll keep you up to date on how it goes this […]

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Better

No doubt thanks to all of your kind supportive thoughts, I’m feeling much better today. Yesterday I ended up watching a lot of television (including finishing off Salem’s Lot, a made for TV TNT movie that made me forgive Ted Turner somewhat for his crimes against HD. Somewhat. It’s not really all that scary, but just about as scary and gory as I like a movie to be. I’m not all that masochistic when it comes to scaring myself. I also got the first of my rejection letters from the queries on Ichabod that I’ve been sending out. Getting a

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Spring is in the Air

Beautiful day out today. Had a lovely weekend. To lift my spirits after the rejection of last week, I broke out a new computer game. Bioshock. Talk about an intense game. It taught me that there are worse things in life than having someone not like your book. For example, you might be involved in a plane crash in the 1950s and then find yourself in an underwater dystopian society where people with knives and scissors are trying to kill you. My life isn’t nearly that bad. 🙂 Also finished a fun book: Somebody Owes Me Money. A nice first

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Rejection

Those of you holding your breath to find out the first response to Ichabod may now resume your normal breathing activities. It’s a no. A very polite and well-phrased no, but a no nonetheless. I’m not really sure if I trust myself to blog too much right now. Rejection can be a dicey thing to handle, and while I’m getting better at it, it’s still difficult for me to separate myself from my writing enough to look at things objectively. In any case, I can’t say it’s not disappointing, but I know it’s important to pick the novel up and

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Foolish Dreams

Do you ever have something that pops into your head and sticks around for a while, even though you know it’s silly? I’m not talking about the lyrics to Real 2 Reel’s I Like to Move It. (Although that certainly qualifies as silly. I like to move it move it. I like to move it move it. Ahhh!!!!!) No, I’m talking about wishful thinking. Dreams that you know have pretty much a 0% chance of ever coming true, and yet you toy with them in your head, just because it’s fun. The one that’s been kicking around my brain for

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