As you may have guessed already from my several weeks of sporadic posting, I got slammed with a ton of deadlines and am going a little buggy.
I hope to be back here with interesting things soon. Thanks for your patience.
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About Me
- 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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- What's Safe to Publish Online?
- Rules for Not Making Editors Hate You
- 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)
- Sonnets for Moonrat by Beloved Readers
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9 comments:
It's okay. I'm going a little stir crazy myself recently.
Totally. Understand. :)
Please come back soon. I love you humor and advice.
Ok I must correct my typo: I love YOUR humor and advice.
I am waiting eagerly for your Wildwood Dancing review :D
(Good luck with the deadlines!)
It seems to be that time of year - conference season started, wedding season started, school term is ending - everything is piling on all at once and you can't even catch your breath in between things you're supposed to be doing.
Godspeed on those projects!
Good luck on your current projects!
I suppose one does have to work. One's landlord does want the rent. We will wait, Moonster, as long as you need.
o ladybug,
as you lug your load, know this:
your burdened wings, I pity,
and though it's hit and missy
with your smiles for a while,
I trust this heartfelt ditty
will remind you
that all of us are behind you.
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