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Today is the official release day for Jim Butcher's First Lord's Fury , the sixth and last volume of the epic Codex Alera series. For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, ...
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arcaedia.livejournal.com - 46 hours ago
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# of queries read this week: 112 #
of partials/manuscripts requested: 2 genre of partials/manuscripts requested: fantasy
(1), YA (1) Unless you were hiding under a rock these last couple days in the publishing world, you will have heard of ...
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# of queries read this week: 272 # of partials/manuscripts requested: 0 genre of partials/manuscripts requested: n/a A lot of people have good luck rituals. Lucky ties, shirts, jewelery, etc. Throwing salt over their shoulder. Not stepping on cracks. And so on. Many people believe that Friday ...
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# of queries read this week: 209 # of partials/manuscripts requested: 1 genre of partials/manuscripts requested: fantasy Writers who take their approach to seeking traditional publication as seriously as writing the novel itself seem to do an awful lot of research. Not for them the rush to dash ...
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arcaedia.livejournal.com - 19 days ago
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Dear Writer who thinks you deserve more of
my time and attention than the other 200 or
so people querying me this week: Quit it. Query letters in which you tell me that your book can't possibly be appreciated in the mere five pages our submission ...
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this rant brought to you by the letter Q for Query
Congratulations to client Ekaterina Sedia AKA squirrel_monkey for Paper Cities winning the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. "Original genre anthologies have been a mixed bag in recent years, with an overreliance on established household names at the expense of nurturing new talent. ...
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# of queries read this week: 204 # of partials/manuscripts requested: 1 genre of partials/manuscripts requested: fantasy In honor of the holiday.... How queries are like-- --zombies: sometimes they eat your brain --ghosts: they often aren't laid to rest until unfinished business has been ...
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Mike Shevdon's debut novel Sixty-One Nails comes out today in the U.K. -- appearing in the U.S. this coming Spring. Niall Petersen thinks he's having a heart attack on the London Underground. The woman who saves him reveals that a creature was attempting to possess his dying body. She has used ...
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Today is the official publication day for By the Mountain Bound by Elizabeth Bear. In this complex prequel to Hugo-winner Bear's All the Windwracked Stars (2008), Ragnarok has already occurred, but the world must still be cleansed of the residue of the former realm. When immortal einherjar ...
