Week in Short

It's Friday? Already? O.o Did someone speed up time on me again?

Song of the Week: Into the Night by Nickelback (which actually should have been the song two weeks ago, but I'm listening to Pandora so I don't really have a song of the week right now)

Must read:
Good guys or bad guys? How about neither? + Angelfire giveaway!
The process of a book: 16 steps to publication [I want to have this post made into a giant poster and put it on my wall. Seriously.]
The magic of setting
Q&A with Tina Wexler covering quitting querying, mentioning other works, magic realism, and much more

News:
Rachelle Gardner is closed to queries for the month of July

Contests:
MSFV July Secret Agent contest! Genres for this one are young adult and contemporary women's fiction. Begins July 12th.

Christina Baker Kline:
Five questions to ask yourself BEFORE querying

Pimp My Novel:
Co-op
Book covers

Rachelle Gardner:
Style sheet

Scott Tracey:
Keep a stiff upper lip

Story Flip:
Endings

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ARML -- Draft four is complete (yay!) and draft five is in progress. I'm a little nervous about character revisions because I've never done an entire draft focused entirely on them before, but it's a learning experience.

Summer Fling -- 42k! WHOOO! Still not halfway, I have a feeling this is going to be a longer one. Maybe about 70k all told.

I also had an SNI yesterday. A very nagging SNI. I'm trying to push it to the back of my mind to simmer while I work on SF, but it doesn't seem to want to go. I'd start writing it except I only have the MC and very little plot. I'll figure it out eventually.

Everyone have an awesome weekend!

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