I greatly admire Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s 2005 effort to read 365 books in a year. I have not the slightest clue how she did it. She also wrote two books. Who has that time?
No matter. I read 52 books this year — one for every week — not counting a variety of research books, re-reads, novels [...]
Entries from December 2005
December 30, 2005
A Year in Books
December 29, 2005
Year’s End
From Vanessa Virtue’s blog:Name Five Bad Things That Happened to You in 2005:1. Had a very bad cold that almost prevented me from going on vacation.2. Had my credit card stolen.3. Found out that people who I thought were my friends were not my friends.4. Was told by a former coworker that I’d never amount [...]
December 28, 2005
Sheepish
So sometimes I’m writing away on this blog, and I forget that it really is visible to anyone who wants to see it. And the people who comment? Occasionally I grasp the totally wrong end of the stick when it comes to identifying them.
For instance, yesterday, and for many days before that, I was under [...]
December 27, 2005
Addendum to Synopsis Post
From a private email:
“I hate synopses. I can’t wait until I’m published and don’t have to write them anymore.”
Um, no. Nice try, though. And while I am sure there are some writers out there who do not write synopses and sell their books anyway (please hold off on sending such reports; I know they are [...]
December 26, 2005
Synopsis: implement of torture or sales tool?
Miss Snark is clearly in the Christmas spirit, as she has offered to read and critique 106 synopses with her “crapometer.” I’ve been reading — okay, no, not reading, I don’t have the fortitude for that, but skimming pargraphs here and there — the posted works and am once again struck by how very difficult [...]
December 25, 2005
Christmas meme
1. What is your favorite Christmas carol? One? Are you kidding? Um probably “We Three Kings” though “Carol of the Bells” is great too.2. What is your favorite fun Christmas song? They’re ALL fun! Okay, fine. “Grandma Got Run OVer By A Reindeer”has a special place in my heart. Also “Christmas Tree Hung With Tears” [...]
December 23, 2005
Romancing the Void
Dude, is it me, or is Romancing the Blog gone? I haven’t been able to visit in days.
December 23, 2005
wedding bell bigotry
So I recently received an email from a college aquaintance that made my mouth drop. Apparently, her brother has fallen in love with a wonderful woman, and they want to get married. How lovely. Mazel Tov! One problem. He’s half Mexican-American and she’s from a conservative Korean-American family and her folks are flipping out. So [...]
December 22, 2005
Galley Slave
Confidential to M.A.E.: Congratulations on your promotion!
Exciting news: my galleys came yesterday! Woo hoo!
Now, if you are the reader of this blog who answers to the name Kerri Buckley, you’re going to tell me that they aren’t galleys, because you work for a publisher that has all sorts of complex names for things that [...]
December 21, 2005
Two Rants: Word Count and Scam Agents
Let’s get ready to ruuuummmmmmbllle.
Rant warning full in place, y’all. I don’t want to hear it.
Rant #1: Word Count
So over at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, as well as elsewhere on the blogsophere, people are whingeing about the new word counts for Harlequin category novels. The main argument seems to be that they’ll be [...]
