Category: Commentary
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Query Letter for Gruffworld
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Although the book was not accepted for publication, I believe the query got me read. The credits at the end are omitted. If I were to try to get it reviewed on a blog or ezine, I might very well use the same language, with adjustments here and there and…
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Three Engines Leaving the Station
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I have been away from blogging because I am completing three works, a short story collection, a book of essays and an extended memoir/reminiscence about my long-distant relationship as a reader and student of Krishnamurti, the spiritual teacher. After a rather negative experience with Red Willow Digital Press (stay away!)…
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If I Had to Choose
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Since mid September I’ve been involved writing my third book within the last two years and it is finished, which means editing follows, proofing, grammar checking, footnoting, and all the many little details before it is really finished. This book has been a pleasure to write and it comes in about…
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Query Letter for Down to a Sunless Sea
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Dear Editor: I am querying you as to a possible review of Down to a Sunless Sea. This short story collection presents a variety of styles, providing a different reading experience — poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wrlyly humorous and even macabre. “Herbie” was listed in Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories of…