Monday, March 29, 2010

She not only slithers, she leaps

Most agents just read their queries to acquire clients.

Barbara Poelle has a different strategy. Here's footage:


22 comments:

  1. Oh my... is it bad that I'm still willing to approach her? *grin*

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  2. I had to watch the last few seconds over and over just so I could keep laughing so hard.

    Dinoshark!

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  3. I don't care how many people an agent may eat in the course of day, as long as I can close that book deal. ;)

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  4. So, if you're a shark and she's a DINO shark, does that mean she's older than you? ;-)

    And surfers are notoriously bad spellers. She's got her work cut out for her.

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  5. rofl Now that was a surprise ending.

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  6. *blinks* *watches again* Remind me to spend more time on the beach...

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  7. I thought she was shorter than that.

    And she really needs some moisturizer. I'm just sayin'.

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  8. Isn't there a drinking game that goes with this movie?

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  9. Ha! I see your video clip, and raise you one MEGA SHARK!!! (Or how sharky keeps the slithery one from beating her to the best clients.)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBizgLZX7W0

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  10. So funny! I almost quit on the vid. Glad I didn't.

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  11. It's like when you see a Danger: Do Not Enter sign. You think about it. You think about it. You shrug and enter anyway.

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  12. Whoa dude. That was like, totally radical.

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  13. Also, Marsha? I'll have you know, My skin is EfferVESCENT. (It's all the fish oil.)

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  14. Oh. . . My. . . LOL! Tears are running down my face! That's awesome!

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  15. Dinoshark is my idea of a superhero.
    Nothing fishy about this creature who likes to take a big bite out of life.

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  16. got MY attention... even if i have little use for surfers ;) lol

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  17. This is why I didn't approach her at the BEA Pitch Slam last year. She may be beautiful, but she scares the &*@^#% out of me.

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  18. I like her. To bad I don't do Pitch Slams or workshops. I just write. I do terrible query letters it seems. I think my rejection count for my book is 143 to date.

    Yet it has been between 1,000 to 20,000 on Amazon in Fiction for 4 months. It has great reviews. My Kindle sales are excellent. Amazon has been good to me with pairing too.

    Yet I can't get an agent to read a partial. I got 2 more books done and a novella. I hated writing resumes and I hate writing query letters so I am doomed.

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  19. So...Monday we saw Barbara Poelle leaping in a dino-fishy way, and now we have Janet Reid slithering...

    My head hurts.

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