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- moonrat
- I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful. Painfully self-conscious, woefully self-congratulatory, willfully self-indulgent. Yes, I'm white, but I'm trying to get over it. Accurate spelling (to the dismay of my boss) is not among my interests. So read forgivingly.
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- Marketing Your Book (and Knowing What to Ask Your Publisher to Do)
- Things You Should Be Able to Expect from Your Editor
- It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That an Individual in Possession of a Word Processor Must Be in Want of a Book Deal (Lessons of Publishing from Jane Austen)
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27 comments:
No! How the hell did that slip by me?
And in a Twitter-related question, how do you feel about followers/following?
Are you kidding?! I'm not doing anything else. And me, on deadline. Oy.
yep, been watching ALL day!
Yeah -- poked my nose in for all of about 30 seconds, thought Time sink! Time sink!, and backed right the hell out. :)
It's like watching a train wreck. I haven't been able to take my eyes off it.
Bradley--you know, I don't know. I haven't really figured twitter out yet. The only thing I really know is that I don't have time for it and shouldn't be on it!
I hear that about the time thing. My entire company is on here, and they all wonder how I hit deadlines and keep up the habit.
Anyhow, you've been "teh followed" by @knownhuman
woman, you are crazy. i can't believe you blog, facebook, twitter, AND Still have time to chat with me online. AND still have time to do work. um. can we say internet age overload???
*raises hand*
Since 9 this morning. I have not been able to tear myself away from Twitter!
Yes! I can't stop. Every time I go away from it, I get drawn back in. Funny stuff!
Absolutely. And not getting much else done, either.
Thanks to #queryfail, you now have another follower, former lurker and first time poster here.
No, I've done nothing but follow queryfail today too! It wasn't quite such a timesuck until it grew. When it was just Colleen, well, she can do only so many but now O_O
I think I'll have to buy a large bottle of wine and waste future queryfail days away because I'm sure not getting anything done this way!
:)
I was excited when I found it, but I couldn't follow it very well, so I bailed.
OK, I went back and looked a bit longer and got some good laughs. But it could so consume my night. So I left again.
At the certainty of looking like a Luddite, but a repentant one, I signed up for twitter last week, but got confused by all this following business. (I'm on a home computer way over in Indonesia).
So I thought #queryfail would be a good start.
But the twitter search engine says there is no such thing for me to follow.
Can somebody bring enlightenment plus a cold Dos Equis?
But a *genius* Luddite. I figured it out all by myself. I have to follow the individual agents mentioned.
But I would still appreciate a cold Dos Equis.
I just caught it late afternoon, otherwise I would've gotten nothing else done...
Moonie,
16 calls on a book about cathair potholders?!!! holy moly. My husband and I were on the floor rolling with thoughts of some deranged woman in middle america somewhere, in a house dress with claw marks everywhere and a wild gleam in her eyes. Shouting curses toward heaven and the herd of bald cats what have escaped her wrath.
Sorry... really worried about those cats though.
Should I ever hurl myself from a cliff, the unforgiving surface against which my soon-to-be-vegetative musculature would splat, if I managed (in spite of all despairing intention) to bypass terra firma, would have as its logo...Twitter.
It was hilarious, wasn't it? Of course, I'm in my Twitter infatuation phase, seeing as I'm pretty new there.
It was actually pretty encouraging. I don't think I saw anything in there that I've been tempted to do, at least not in the last few years.
Whirlocre, you have a way with analogies whose equal I simply have never encountered.
mine too!!! and you can put no price on laughter :)
WO is awesome, isn't he?
Not into Twitter yet and it looks like I should steer clear. At least until I have a few best sellers under my belt and can quit the day job.
Was that an analogy? I thought I was being factual.
I've had another look at this and I still don't get it.
The query stuff is fine, but I can't see why anyone needs to Twit when there are blogs and brevity. Same as I don't get Facebook when the world already has MySpace.
Ok Ok, I admit. I'm made of wood and powered by steam...
Yep. I watched. Time I could have been writing, but I couldn't look away...
Wow. That was some amusing disaster zone.
If you have twitter, you probably don't need to be distracted further, but I found this a month or so ago: http://www.fmylife.com and I go now every time I think my brain is going to explode.
Good, consistent source for distraction and laughs. And after I got over my initial 3hr fascination session, I am only distracted by it for about 8 hilarious minutes per day.
ROFL! And wincing in sympathy. And v. thankful they're not talking about my queries...
Another new follower here.
I ditto what Michelle said--all my writing time, frittered.
Saddest thing? I'll bet nobody who got #queryfailed followed it. They obviously don't read the blogs, poor dears.
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