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nail biting time
Whew! The synopsis and first chapter of A Druid Came Calling are now with an agent.I may not have any nails left in a few weeks.Raykawww.RaykaMennen.com
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Progress - maybe
So! Almost a year since my last post. Mind you, I've been busy. Its not easy writing 6 chapters of various books. LOL.At long last, I've settled in with one work in progress, tentatively titled A Druid...
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My left thumb
Who knew how much my left thumb did for me? I mean this is an integral part of my body and all this time I've been treating it like a stepchild in a fairy tale - worse perhaps. So what brought on this...
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And I can't sell a romance novel?
According to the USA Today (my trusted source for all things trivial):• 75 million: The number of Americans who read at least one romance novel in 2008.• 91: percentage of romance readers who are...
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Texas screening e-book pricing
In my Publisher’s Lunch daily I see that Texas is one of the state making inquiries into e-book publishing prices. (....the Texas investigation we reported has been conducted in secret, and has...
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Lackluster report on Georgette Heyer
Two posts in day? What can I say - people seem bent on making news (and not great news, either).NPR ran a story about Gilded Romances Of Dashing Dandies, Brooding Beaus by Helen Simonson. Now anything...
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies Announces First Issue
Kudos to the JPRS team. The first issue is interesting and covers a wider range of topics (and yours truly has already commented on their website).Journal of Popular Romance Studies Cheers! Here's to a...
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Going all e-books
If you've been resisting the various e-book readers on the market (the Kindles, Nooks, etc), this may be the time to start accepting that e-books are here to stay. Dorchester Publishing has announced...
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All that DRM stuff
I had read tons about Digital Rights Management, and I wasn't sure I really got it. Then you know how you read something and poof, suddenly, it's as clear as you could want it to be? Cory Doctorow's...
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Margie Lawson's Master Immersion Class
I have been on a mountain top (8888 feet to be exact) in Colorado, since Thursday afternoon, attending Margie Lawson's Master Immersion Class. If you're an aspiring novelist or heck even if you've got...
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More on the Immersion Master Class
Here's another installment on my experience high up in the Colorado mountains at Margie Lawson's Immersion Master Class. I have completely (and I do mean completely) reworked my first few pages based...
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99 degrees
Its 99 degrees in the shade. What a great day to sit in my cool study and deep edit, while occasionally gazing out at the Pineapple Palm tree outside my window and the Gila woodpecker who visits it...
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The saga begins....
Cross posted at The EmergineersMaggie, thank you so much for setting up this new blog for us. What a great place to hang out with fellow Immersion Class members.So here's my tidbit for the day. I have...
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Featured Guest Maggie Jamison
RM: Today's featured guest is Maggie Jaimeson. Maggie took the Immersion Master Class with me (and five others). We had a wonderful time and I asked my fellow IMCers if they would visit my blog over...
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Contest
The Emergineers will be visiting here over the next few weeks. Post a comment in response to any featured guest's blog entry and your name will be entered into a random drawing. One lucky winner will...
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Featured Guest Angela Foster
RM: Angela Foster is my featured guest this week. What a gal! You know how you meet someone and they just give off good vibes and you know you can be friends? I met Angela at the IMC worskhop in...
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Featured Guest Angela Foster speaks
It all started with a book. At least that’s the way I choose to remember it. I could mention the title, but it doesn’t matter to this story, so I won’t. One night, I sat on the couch and turned the...
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Back to editing
So this past week has been big for me on rejections. Well, I received two, from agents who had requested partials of Druid. Once I convinced myself this did not signal the beginning of the apocalypse,...
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Welcome to the next guest Betty Booher
RM: Welcome to Betty Booher another talented IMCer and Emergineer. She was a working on a paranormal romance, complete with scary ghost and all. Betty has a great voice. She had also a graduate of...
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Featured Guest Betty Booher speaks: The Summer of Continuous Improvement
It all started with a rejection. Two. A dismal contest score. No. That’s not exactly right. It all started with Donald Maass. Washington DC. The Fire in Fiction. Permission to get off the...
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Why is blogging so hard?
Now this may just be me, but I can't figure out why, when I'm as talkative as I am, blogging is so darn hard. I'd like to say its because I completed my magnum opus instead. But alas, that book hit a...
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I sold, I sold, I sold
Hot diggity dog! I signed a contract for two books with Entangled Publishing. My first paranormal romance, published in 2004, will be re-released, with an expanded story and a brand new title. If you...
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Two new books - yeah
Can you do the dance of joy of with me? I have two books coming out with Entangled Publishing. September 1 is the release date for the re-release of my first paranormal novella, expanded and with a new...
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Nationals
What an amazing week in NYC at the RWA Nationals.First, I just have to gush - I actually got to talk to Nalini Singh for a few minutes - lovely, gracious woman - and I was so glad to tell her how much...
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New website
I am so excited with my new website design. Check it out at www.RaykaMennen.com.My heartfelt thanks to Carol Webb of Bella Media Management who was so professional and a real joy to work with.Cheers,Rayka
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