"My book is just like.."

I'm quenching my thirst at the fountain o'query tonight and I must say some of you really amaze me.

Most particularly amazing are those of you who compare your books to those that have not yet been published. Two of you in fact compared your novel to a non-fiction book that hasn't been written.

I'm pretty sure you haven't read those books. You're using the listings in Publishers Marketplace or perhaps my own "What I've Sold" blog post.

You don't need to compare your book to anything.

If you can't resist the urge, use books you've actually read.

Happy Happy Books in the mail day

Here's my non-client reading for awhile! I'm going to treat myself to one of them AFTER I answer all my queries!

I read it for the articles, I swear

Don't think for one second I bought this for what's on the back cover. No sirree, not me. I bought this one for the articles.

(a; an; the- to be sure, but articles nonetheless)

Graham Brown's BLACK RAIN is on sale today. (smelling salts not included)

Alaska Writing Guild wooing tactics!

Remember my New Year's resolution about heading back up the Alaska Writing Guild conference in September? I mentioned there was some sucking up to the conference organizer going on.






Now they've brought out the big guns: cuteness.




Yes, that is a baby moose.**
A pettable baby moose.

And it turns out that Baby Moose knows where to find the good stuff!

** for those of you wondering why Baby Moose is without Mama Moose:

"The baby moose was in distress in a creek.
A man got him out of the creek,
tried to find the mother and send him on his way,
but the moose stumbled back into the creek
and had to be rescued again.
Baby Moose followed the man home.

The man has only a small cabin
so he took the moose to another neighbor,
who took these photos.
The next day Baby Moose went to a place
for rescued wild life, where he is penning his memoirs,
and registering for the Alaska Writers Guild workshop"