Starlog

  • Hey! I was a Semi Finalist in that Pitch and First 250 Words Contest!

    This was pretty cool! On July 19th I entered a contest.  Click here to see the blog post.  I didn’t really have high hopes.  It was my fist time out there. On July 21st, I blogged about how good some of the other writer’s first pages were in Just how good are YOUR first 250… Read more

  • Yes! We will publish your novel… If…

     You toil for years over your story.  It’s very intricate.  It’s brilliant (I can say this because it’s not mine.  This just happened to a friend of mine Friday) Your story is a three-part series. Every facet of book one is important to the next two novels, and they are all completely written (at least in… Read more

  • Here’s another pitch contest!

    There’s another pitch contests going on.  So, I figure, why not? This one is over at Beyond Words and the prize is a full manuscript read and critique by agent Victoria Marini.  Not too shabby.  So, of course I am throwing my hat in the ring.  If you want to join in, you need to… Read more

  • Technology is catching up to Science Fiction

    Funny, when I started writing my novel a few years ago I came up with this neat little innovation…  these kids on my futuristic planet don’t carry books around to school, they have Datapads.  Imagine my surprise when the iPad became the “in thing” last year.  I just laughed it off.  It still fits in… Read more

  • Stinking words you hate

        Dictionary.com had a spotlight on their home page yesterday to a quiz called “12 of the cruelest confusing words–  The English language can be cruel, can’t it?” Everyone has those “stinking words” that they just cannot get right.  For me, it’s brought and bought.  I just don’t know why I can’t get them… Read more

  • Just how good are YOUR first 250 words?

      This past week, I joined a very simple writing contest.  Nothing flashy… just a pitch and the first 250 words of my manuscript.  Now, no matter how this turns out, I did get something out of the experience…  #1:  I read a few of the other entries, and was able to make some comments… Read more