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Query War Update – The Numbers Game

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJune 1, 2011

The website QueryTracker maintains a database that includes 1.242 agents and 131 publishers to serve the needs of 41,610 members, of which 559 have reported success. Assuming each favorable outcome represents one member (I have no idea if any members … Continue reading →

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Color-Coded “Text Time”

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJuly 20, 2019

In the previous Writer’s Desk logbook entry titled “The Bungalow Analogy,” I noted my intention to follow up with a personal concept linking the initial creative process of writing a novel with the editing necessary during subsequent revisions. My objective … Continue reading →

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The Bungalow Analogy

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshNovember 22, 2017

In an earlier Writer’s Desk logbook post titled “Four Hats,” I offered a personal view of the writer’s journey to publication by figuratively defining four stages in terms of wearing a series of baseball caps with a single word embroidered … Continue reading →

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Query War Update – Using QueryTracker

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshMay 16, 2011

Writers seeking representation by a literary agent in the Age of the Internet have only to plop down at their computers to gain access to more information than most of us can assimilate. I’ve picked querytracker.net (QT) as my primary … Continue reading →

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To Group or Not to Group?

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshMay 8, 2011

This afternoon I will suffer the slicing and dicing of scalpels in the autopsy procedure known as “roundtable” when fellow members of the Novel-in-Progress (NIP) group of Austin review 25 pages of Redline, the second of a planned series that … Continue reading →

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Query War Update – Unintentional Cease-fire

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshMay 4, 2011

Where did the month of April go? I must have missed it, as evidenced by my query letter record, which indicates that I last submitted to an agent on March 29th. How in the world did that happen when I’d … Continue reading →

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Ebooks in the News

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshApril 21, 2011

In the previous Writer’s Desk logbook entry, I wrote of a website dedicated to late-blooming novelists and the advantages of self-publishing, specifically through the ebook format. I also mentioned the blog of a literary-agent-turned-author who has maintained his penchant for … Continue reading →

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Fiction After 50 and E-books?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshApril 15, 2011

A member of one of my writers’ groups came across a blog devoted to, of all things, an “online community of late-blooming novelists.” I visited the site, did a bit of reading, and found it to be a valuable resource … Continue reading →

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ABNA Aftermath – A Voice from Boot Hill

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshMarch 23, 2011

I didn’t make the quarter-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest because my 5,000-word excerpt failed to convince two “Vine Voice” reviewers that it deserved to be counted in the top 25%. What follows might be considered by some … Continue reading →

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Wordfight at the ABNA Corral Ends in Boot Hill

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJune 14, 2011

This is where those of us who didn’t make it to the quarter-finals now reside.

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