Popping In Again

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And now I’m back!
In cyberspace!
I just logged in to find you here –

Okay, I’m stopping.

News! Well, I have a critique partner now. Exciting, no? We’re having fun going over her MG mystery and my MG fantasy (The Book of Foxes) one chapter at a time. Good stuff.

So, I have a Twitter account, but I find I basically don’t use it. As a Teen Services librarian, the impression I get is that teens don’t use Twitter a lot, either. I think it’s mostly adults, many of them doing grown-up things like reporting and commenting on news, organizing events, and so on. Not that teens don’t do those things – I just don’t see them doing them on Twitter much. How about you guys? Who do you think is using Twitter? Are you?

Also, this contest, for which you submit a 35-word pitch and the first 150 words of your finished novel, and agents pick their favorites, might interest some of you.

Home Again, Home Again

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Classes are over for the semester, and I’m home! Huzzah! Tomorrow, I start work at the library.

I’ve been doing an edit-really-more-of-a-rewrite of Lord of the Dark Downs, but I’ve decided to pause on that when I get to the end of my current chapter in order to do a polishing edit on The Dogwatchers so that I can start querying it. This was a little tough to decide, because I would ordinarily plan to let a recently-finished manuscript sit for longer before doing the last-call edit and querying. The Dogwatchers has been finished for just over three months (got done at 3:08 AM January 30), so it’s had a little while, but the main impetus for my deciding to go back to it now is that I realize none of my novels are currently making the rounds. It’s always good to have something out there.

Besides this, I feel The Dogwatchers is at least as pitchable as Rabbit and Cougar and much more so than Lord of the Dark Downs. (I don’t really know how to write a query for a novel with an ensemble cast.)

So, coming soon: editing! (And for those of you who are Becky, probably taking you up on your offer to read The Dogwatchers once it is edited. Thanks!)