Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

An ebook if you could read the first chapter? The discussion going on at Smart Bitches has got me thinking about this again, and I’ve asked it before but not gotten much response. Would you rather read the first chapter than an excerpt on a publisher’s website? People often do the first 10 page test [...]

Last week we drafted a new letter for Samhain: a form rejection letter. Starting immediately (actually starting last week), that’s what we’ll be using rather than the personalized rejections we had mostly been sending out. So if you get a form rejection letter, don’t take it personally If you hate form rejection letters and wish [...]

I’ve been in a serious reading slump. Not that I’m not reading, but all my reading for almost 6 weeks has been almost exclusively work–edits and submissions (though I did read and finish Right Here, Right Now by HelenKay Dimon. Fabulous dialogue!). I have some great books that I want to read but my motivation, [...]

As of today I’ve re-opened submissions at Samhain. Please keep in mind that we have refocused our efforts and the accepted genres have changed. Additionally, we’ve clarified and/or changed some of our submissions guidelines. http://samhainpublishing.com/submissions Questions can be sent to editor@samhainpublishing.com

I stumbled across this blog giveaway this morning and I immediately thought of my friend Mandy’s son Andy, who has a whole lot of allergies that make it hard for him to get to eat the same things other kids eat. One of the things that sticks in my mind is Mandy once telling me [...]

I installed a new plugin today (on my blog and Jaci Burton’s blog), that I think is kind of cool. I saw it on some random blogs I was reading, so I went searching for it. It’s called CommentLuv and when you fill in your info and post a comment, it tries to pull the [...]