Have You Updated Your Blog Today?

I just blogged about Puss's Boots. I'll leave it to you guys to divine the origin of my boot obsession. Cheers!

Speculative Poetry

Posted today about the Science Fiction Poetry Association's anthology of speculative poetry. Has everything from sci-fi, horror, fantasy, slipstream, mythological, scientific, and more.

Check it out here ...
http://www.onewritersmind.blogspot.com/2012/07/whats-best-spec-fic-poetry-reading.html

Day two of edit-palooza, wherein I compare onions to things

http://farseeingfairytales.blogspot.com/2012/07/ogres-are-like-onions.html

Two posts on my blog today. Probably just a bit excited to have a found this site! On my blog I wonder if more females in top administrative positions might have changed how Penn State reacted to its current scandal.

New random song of the week--Mychael Danna, Deirdre Of The Sorrows. A new age Celtic inspired song from his album Sirens.

New post on small-town fireworks and plot surprises

Updated my blog today. It is on the importance of setting targets.

Just re-started blogging a couple days ago and hope to stay consistent now. Wrote a little yesterday and will again tonight. Great thread!

joetab24 said:

Updated my blog today. It is on the importance of setting targets.

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Hey Joe, quick html note, you have your black pop out on the right (archive, about, subscribe) pop out over peoples windows scroller bar, so it took me a second to get a hold of it so I could scroll down. Make sense? Might want to adjust it either to the very top right or further below. Just a thought.

Now I'll go read your blog.

CAMueller said:

New post on small-town fireworks and plot surprises

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Really dig your blog design. Where did you get it? or did you create it yourself?

Another Sunday, another post. My audiobook struggles and, also, why I don't let the Good Witch hold my cell phone when I'm trying on stripper shoes.

I finally get to announce the release date for my novella:
http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/announcement-transitions/

I mean I only wrote it like 6 or so years ago...

I posted an internal ramble about me being a closeted writer.

tangelo said:

Hey Joe, quick html note, you have your black pop out on the right (archive, about, subscribe) pop out over peoples windows scroller bar, so it took me a second to get a hold of it so I could scroll down. Make sense? Might want to adjust it either to the very top right or further below. Just a thought.

Now I'll go read your blog.

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Thanks, I just fixed that.

I'm reading Fifty Shades of Grey and talking about it.

All about the editing this weekend

http://farseeingfairytales.blogspot.com/2012/07/edit-palooza.html

TV Tropes Monday: No Such Thing As Alien Pop Culture

bettielee said:

All about the editing this weekend

http://farseeingfairytales.blogspot.com/2012/07/edit-palooza.html

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bettielee - your blog is so adorable! It really is.

There is nothing like editing to make you appreciate an onion. You peel away the papery outer layer of spelling errors, obvious grammar mistakes, easy wtf-ery, where you have simply hit the wrong key in the heat of the moment. You have to hack off the uneatable bulb at the bottom, paring away unnecessary characters, description, and all those darlings. Now you are at the juicy outer layer of your novel.

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That's just gorgeous!




ETA: I updated. Because, hey - Bastille Day and they celebrate with books. How amazing is that? I so love you, France...

Inside a Literary Agency

This weekend I posted the second half of my interview with literary agent and AAR president Gail Hochman. Topics include: what she looks for in a query; what draws her into a novel and what makes her quit reading; what every writer should ask agents before signing on; the state and direction of the publishing industry, and much more. Some of what she had to say surprised me----more positive about self-publishing than I'd anticipated for example. Hope you find it interesting.

Get your FREE copy of "How To Be A Writer in the E-Age... and Keep Your E-Sanity!" by Catherine Ryan Hyde and Anne R. Allen

This past weekend, one of my blog entries went semi-viral on Twitter and garnered more pageviews in the space of a few hours than I got in the entire month of June combined.

It was crazy to experience, and today I shared a little about what I learned from it:

My First "Viral" Experience and What I Learned From It

On Writer Unboxed, what I learned about writing during my son's recent hospitalization.

Diagnosis Storyteller

And yet I read on...