POINT OF NO RETURN

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Bizarro World

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 6:54 AM












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Coffee Break

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 5:59 AM
August-- More queries for WENTZEL FARM went out this month. Four of the emails bounced. I couldn't find updated addresses.

Yesterday, I emailed six queries for SMOKE.

Haven't heard anything about my two short stories.

There is some good news...

First let me say, I'm superstitious about certain things. I don't have a problem with ladders and black cats, but I do have a problem posting actual titles of unpublished work on this blog. I stay with the 'working title'.

Announcing good news is another problem. Every time I receive a request for sample pages or the full manuscript I tell everyone I know, then, sure enough, the story gets rejected.

So, all I can tell you about my good news is...

Wait and see.

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Happy Birthday To Me

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 5:57 AM
Famous Virgos [Aug. 23 - Sept. 22] who are writers:

Friedrich Hegal, Theodore Dreiser, Johann V. Goethe, Mary Godwin Shelley, William Saroyan, William Rice Burroughs, Antinon Artaud, Craig Claiborne, Edith Sitwell, Taylor Caldwell, Grace Metalious, O. Henry, D.H. Lawrence, Henry L. Menken, George Fenimore Cooper, Agatha Christie, Upton Sinclare, H.G. Wells, Stephen King

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New Book Releases For August

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 3:13 PM
I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME
by Per Petterson -- http://perpetterson.com/

MENTOR
by Tom Grimes -- http://www.tomgrimes.org/

MOCKINGJAY
by Suzanne Collins -- http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/

PACKING FOR MARS
by Mary Roach -- http://www.maryroach.net/books.html

BROKEN
by Karin Fossum -- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/163027.Karin_Fossum

FREEDOM
by Jonathan Franzen -- http://us.macmillan.com/author/jonathanfranzen

THE RED QUEEN
by Philippa Gregory -- http://www.philippagregory.com/

YOU LOST ME THERE
by Rosencrans Bladwin -- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Thompson-t.html

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
by Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Kelly Link, more -- http://www.nightshadebooks.com/

From: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/newreleases/tp/august-2010-books.htm

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Update On The Blaze Trilogy

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 7:05 AM
I've started the second draft of Book 2, FIRE [working title].

Book 3 will be written after I finish FALSE FACE.

Several months ago I submitted a full manuscript of Book 1 to a small press publisher. I've never heard back from them. Today I found out the company has gone completely digital, they're not accepting any submissions at this time, and the editor I sent the full to no longer works for them.


It just wasn't meant to be.

Next week I'll send out a new batch of queries.

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Interesting Blogs

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 6:03 PM
SlushPile Hell -- http://slushpilehell.tumblr.com/

Storyfix.com -- http://storyfix.com/

Writer Beware -- http://accrispin.blogspot.com/

Flogging the Quill -- http://www.ftqpress.com/

Dear Author -- http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/

Booksquare -- http://booksquare.com/

NY Times' Paper Cuts -- http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/

Hollywood Entertainment -- http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind -- http://www.sarahweinman.com/

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New Photo For New Novel

Posted by Sharon A. Austin at 9:50 AM
I don't know why, but no sooner had I written the first paragraph of my new story [FALSE FACE] than my mind was off and running in a whole new direction.

Forget the photo below [Plotting A Murder] and pay close attention to this one. It is a very old room somewhere in St. Augustine, Florida.

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