hildie block's workshop

So, then it came to pass, on April Fools Day, that the Washington Post ran this little wonder . .. .

ME, a BOOK EXPERT!

Seriously.  Okay, so that's pretty exciting.  Would have been more excit...

Shhh.  It's a secret.

I'm writing something for the Washington Post.   (YAY! right?)

And the deadline is noon.

And it was pretty much done since Friday, but I'm touching it up.  You, know. ...

This is another great blog entry by Janet Reid on what to do if you have

           *queries out to agents on a novel

           *and then a small press offers to pub your OTHER book.

I know it's something that has crossed a lot of folks minds  . . . what if . . . .

check it out --
...

There are only so many ways and times I can say this.

Rejection means nothing.

But sometimes, saying something -- well -- it also means nothing.  What means something is SHOWING -- as in you, know like proof.  Empirical, scientific-ish evidence-y things.

So here you go.  Proof.

and it start liks this:

The New Yorker Rejects Itself: A Quasi-Scientific Analysis of Slush Piles  By David Cameron

It began as the kind of logical ar...

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Jan. 22nd, 2012 at 11:42 PM

Hildie Meets Guttenberg

So, if you've been hanging out with me on Facebook, you probably know I finally grabbed the bull by the horns and epubbed a story.