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Query Letter Mistakes

If you think you're ready to query editors or agents, please read this advice. And follow it. It's spot on.
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When Good Is Good Enough

Writers are never satisfied with what we write. We strain to find the le mot juste, the perfect right word for the perfect right spot. We write and rewrite, edit and re-edit, until we reach a point when we have to stop fussing and let someone else read our pearls of...
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I’d Walk A Thousand Miles

Twelve years ago today, February 15, my mother, variously called Doc or Mini-Mommy, died. I still miss her every damned day. Mom was a tiny dynamo, hence the Mini-Mommy moniker. She was fiercely protective of her only chick, me. As a single mother she took me to...
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Labels and Definitions

I'm not big on labels and categories. I'm not big on having to describe myself as anything other than who I am. Black/white, Republican/Democrat, Christian/Buddhist, male/female. All of this is too confining. As a kid I never colored between the lines or thought...
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