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Deb Joanne’s Submission Survival Guide
Today marks the beginning of The Debutante Ball Query Critique Contest! The Debs are giving away query critiques to 5 of our beloved readers! To be eligible, just leave a comment any day during our...
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Deb Linda Doesn’t Want to Scare You, But …
My fellow Debs have already provided all kinds of wonderful advice on the submissions process this week. (If you haven’t read their posts, go and do it now. They are full of good stuff! That’s okay....
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On Not Selling a Book
This week we’re talking about being on submission and selling our books. I’ve discussed being on submission before. And I think my fellow Debs will have plenty to say on selling books. So I’m going to...
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A GIF, some honesty, and the realities of book two…
I love this quote. (That Stephen King sure does know a thing or two about writers, and writing.) It’s one of those, “I should tattoo this on my arm” kind of sayings, though I’ll probably stop short of...
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Secrets: Why to Keep Them on Submission
In the book FLAPPERS: A MADCAP STORY OF SEX, STYLE, CELEBRITY, AND THE WOMEN WHO MADE AMERICA MODERN, the author Joshua Zeitz quotes a letter from editor Maxwell Perkins to F. Scott Fitzgerald about...
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The Kismet-Filled True-Tale of How I Sold My Novel
This week on The Debutante Ball we are talking about our book sales and being on submission. The story of the sale of THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING involves a fair amount of serendipity....
View ArticleShe Says Tomahto, That Guy Over There Says Tomato: My Experience On Submission
This week we’re talking about our submission process, and what’s been interesting to me is how different each of those processes were. Louise’s path was deceptively easy — she was fortunate enough to...
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The Dream-Come-True Part
The sales cycle for I LIKED MY LIFE went like this: edit, send to a handful of publishers, collect rejections, err, I mean feedback, repeat. We were on round three of this daunting process when I sent...
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