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What NOT to Do: Spam query a freelance editor

June 13, 2013

[dropcap]D[/dropcap] ON’T send an impersonal bulk email with your synopsis and first chapter, a.k.a. SPAM.

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Publishing is not charity

June 12, 2013

Excellent points by Stacia Kane. Don’t let publishers kick you around.

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HATE Sexism and SF

Sexism and SF

June 7, 2013

It’s too bad this is the reality we live in. It also amazes me at that so many…

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Forums. Grrrrrrr!

February 9, 2012

What is it about forums that make people suddenly turn incapable of common sense? Conversations inevitably turn into…

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Kodak – you suck! Playsport ZX5

June 11, 2011

So this is waaay OT but I thought I’d post it because, well, I’m bitter and that’s just…

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