Literary Agent Nathan Bransford's doing it again. (You'd have thought he'd learned his lesson the last time...)
He's running his First Paragraph Challenge. The prize up for grabs? A chance to have your work (either a partial or a query) critiqued by Nathan or a 15-minute phone conversation with him.
Head on over to his blog for details. And do it now--the deadline for entries is Thursday 4 p.m. Pacific time.
It's a cold, rainy morning here, the kind of morning where you should just stay in bed...
Yeah. Now that's what I'm talkin' about...
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. (Robert Bloch)
Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. (Anonymous)
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected! (Anonymous)
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. (Anonymous)
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. (Albert Einstein)
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. (Anonymous)
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. (Anonymous)
So to speak.
DRAGONHEAT was Amber Heat's #2 best seller for the month of November.
DRAGONFIRE came back onto the Top 10 list at #8.
Wahoo!!
(Visit my page at Amber Heat for excerpts or to buy.)
I am generally a good cook, though I don't do anything fancy. Love to eat; hate the clean-up. But I do have a couple of tips for you:
1) If you leave the Parmesan out of Turkey Tetrazzini, it still tastes yummy.
2) If you leave the rice out of rice pudding, it still tastes yummy. And it's not always obvious what's missing. Case in point--several years ago my mom made rice pudding. She and my dad came over to my house for dinner (I lived with my sister at the time), and Mom brought the dessert (leftover rice pudding). As she's dishing it up, she says, "There's something different about this, but your dad and I can't figure out what it is. C (my sister) had some when she stopped by at lunchtime, and she can't figure it out, either." I took one bite and said, "There's no rice in it." The was dead silence, then uproarious laughter. Yep. Mom had left the rice out of the rice pudding. But it was still yummy.
3) If you leave baking soda out of your biscuits, they do not still taste yummy. They're as hard as hockey pucks that even the dog won't eat.
Those are my tips for the day. Have a good one!
