Song playing right now on my playlist: “Let’s Dance,” by David Bowie
NEWS: I signed my first contract! BEER AND GROPING IN LAS VEGAS, coming January 2013 from Secret Cravings Publishing!
Writing and the Writing Life:
- Janice Hardy and Deep POV: You’ll Have to Go Through Me: Eliminating Filter Words
- Querying? Wise words from Query Shark Janet Reid: Every query letter must have this one thing
- Published? Experiencing bad reviews? Good! Anne R. Allen explains why: Bad Reviews—Six Reasons to Be Glad You Have Them
- How another author tackles outlining her novel before Fast Drafting: Guest Author Denise Jaden: Outlining For a Fast Draft
- Got one of those “it’s not quite right for me” rejections? Sara Megibow Sells Romance – Interpreting the Rejection Letter
- Jane Friedman says The Reader Must Want to Know What Happens Next
- And, Chuck Wendig on the 25 Bad Writer Behaviors
- And I love me some worksheets!! Jami Gold has posted some to help with our scenes, check ’em out!
Browncoats:
- Avidly following the tweet stream yesterday for news from the Firefly 10-year reunion panel? Here’s some fave tweets rounded up by the Science Channel! And thank you Science Channel for keeping this show alive!
- And this got me teared up, too: ‘Firefly’ Comic-Con panel live blog: Joss Whedon tears up, reveals how series would have ended
- Article on the panel: Nathan Fillion and ‘Firefly’ alum attend 10th Anniversary panel at SDCC 2012
- Future things to look forward to: Dark Horse will be publishing more comics, and the Science Channel will be airing a new documentary on November 11 called Browncoats Unite!
In Geekdom:
- And I’ll leave you with this (h/t Stubby the Rocket):
Lovely round up. You always provide great links!
Ooo, I hadn’t seen a lot of those links. Thanks for sharing! *goes off to stalk Firefly news*
Be prepared to get teary-eyed!!
LOL! I just finished reading the live blog at insidetv.ew.com . Oh my gosh, you weren’t kidding. *wipes tears* Love those guys!
You always provide such a great round-up. I avidly followed the Firefly SDCC stuff but hadn’t seen those favorite tweets. Awesome!
I love your weekend grab bags! Like a virtual party I’m invited to every week:-) Congrats again about the contract!
Wow, what a fantastic list, Angela. I just checked out one of them, and will visit more. Thanks for this! And congrats, again, on your contract. Enjoy the conference. 🙂