Monday: Missy Tippens shared a Back to Basics post from the Seekerville Archives! "Battling Through Your Manuscript...One Scene at a Time" showed how to mine your GMC chart and how to aim for the middle of your manuscript as ways to help when you're stuck.
Wednesday: Ruthy talked about creating a cover letter that counts.
Friday: Emilie at Create Explore Read stopped by to give us some pointers on making a marketing Splash on Instagram!
Monday: Jan Drexler is our hostess today.
Wednesday: USA TODAY Bestselling author Debby Giusti will be blogging and promises to host a drawing for her Publishers Weekly Bestseller, Dangerous Amish Inheritance. Be sure to stop by and join in the fun!
Friday: Winnie Griggs is our hostess today.
COVER REVEAL!
Braced for Love
Book #1
Brothers in Arms series
March 2021
March 2021
Debby Giusti and Jan Drexler
are included in a FAMILY FICTION poll
featuring Amish authors.
To vote, click HERE!
#FaithPitch is coming! https://www.faithpitch.com/
For anyone who wants to participate, here are the details:#FaithPitch, is a one-day Twitter pitch party for writers of Christian fiction and non-fiction looking for representation. Your 280-character pitch is for your completed, edited, ready-to-query manuscript. You must use our hashtag (#FaithPitch) and the age group tag, plus at least 1 genre tag. We have invited over 50+ agents and editors in the CBA market to participate by following the feed as their schedule permits. Hearts are for the industry pros only. If you receive a heart from an agent/editor, then you have the opportunity to query them per their guidelines.The next #FaithPitch is June 25, 2020 from 8am to 8pm Central Time. Rachel Pelligrino, the creator of #FaithPitch will be there hosting and answering questions, but you can also follow the handle @Faith_Pitch to see tips and helpful information as well as search the #FaithPitch tag to see previous pitches and get a sense of the ones that rise to the top. This contest happens only on Twitter (btw-there are quite a few different events like this online) and just like a workshop or conference, it’s an extra tool to help connect unpublished writers with those in the industry. There’s more information on our website too: www.faithpitch.com .Whether you’re an unrepresented writer, a literary agent, or publishing house editor, you are welcome to join us on June 25th. There will be another #FaithPitch on November 12.
A Fresh Approach to Summer and Writing by Katherine Raey at Learn How To Write A Novel
3 Ways to Share Your Writing with Traditional Publishers by Kris Maze at Writers In The Storm
Simplify Your Writing Life With These 10 Tips by Edie Melson at The Write Conversation
Character Introductions: Making The Right Impression by Angela Ackerman at Writers Helping Writers
We had such a fun week!!!! And life on the farm is crazy busy... but the crazy is outweighing the busy because we have a couple of pumpkin fields not germinating... so we'll be re-planting these babies.... but step-by-step we're getting things done, in the ground, and hoping for a great year and expanding into some fun creative stuff... but after writing, of course! Sending you all blessings!
ReplyDeleteHi Ruth:
DeleteWhy did the pumpkins not germinate? Bad seeds? Bad weather? Did you plant them as seeds or starter plants? When you say 're-plant' does that mean do something to the existing plants to make them germinate or does it mean just do the whole planting all over again with new seeds or starter plants? Was this only on your farm or was it area wide? It all seems rather odd as if God went on strike. Hope all turns out well and you grow the biggest pumpkin like on all those Hallmark pumpkin romances.
Ruthy, I always look forward to pumpkin season at your farm. Even I only get to visit through pictures, it's still a wonderful place to be.
DeletePraying for your pumpkins, Ruthy!
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend, everyone! I'm working on my next book. Saturday is always productive for me.
This looks like a good week ahead and I plan to be around for most of it. Have a blessed Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI voted for yall!! Good Luck!!
ReplyDeleteI hope to start writing again this summer! Even just a little bit will be a fun goal!
Thank you, Jana! It's good to see you back in Seekerville. You're always in my prayers, dear friend!
DeleteWhat Debby said, Jana. Continuing to life you up.
DeleteWhat's It Going to be Like?
ReplyDeleteI just downloaded my copy of, "Waiting Out the Storm", a Ruth Logan Herne book, which I read as a print book about ten years ago.
What will the reading experience be like now? When I read it the first time I did not know it was part of a trilogy. I didn't know I was reading the trilogy out of order. I didn't know at that time that the first book released, "Winter's End," was going to be one of the most powerful and memorable books the author ever wrote -- those editors at Love Inspired sure knew however! Even now I don't know if "Winter's End" was scheduled to be book two or book three.
With these new editions, I will be reading each book on my Kindle, on which all books look new and look like each other. Moreover, lighting does not come into play (being self-lighted you can read the Paperwhite in the dark). It will also be easy to read the large type on the Kindle. I will also know this time that I am reading a part of a trilogy. Better yet, I will be able to read each book without waiting for months or years for the next book to be released…at least I hope I won't have to wait so interminably long again!
All the above new considerations could well constitute a radically different reading experience. In addition to all these changes, books themselves, have a habit of changing as we grow older. Mark Twain's 'children's' books become more adult each time I read them again. Philosophers say,"You can't step into the same river twice," and I believe, in much the same way, "You can't read the same book twice".
Philosophically you don't have to change books to change the reading experience those books provide.
So now new adventures await me! If you read these three books when they first came out, you too can join me on this creative reading adventure.
Come, grab your walking stick, and join me as a fellow pilgrim.
Vince
Congrats, Mindy! The HOLT is an amazing contest with stiff competition. So excited about your WIN!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Debby! I'm still in shock.
DeleteCongratulations, Mindy! That was a really good book!
ReplyDeleteWe just got to spend some time today with my brother and his family--the first time since Christmas we have been able to get together. We went out to Ft. Kearny to walk around the fort and then to hike the trails. Then we came into town and got fast food and ate it together in the park. Good social distancing afternoon with family.
I just printed off my first draft of my novel and am not planning to start going through for revising. I feel like I am making progress.
Aww, that you, Sandy. I'm glad you enjoyed it. That was one of my favorite stories.
DeleteI think this social distancing has made many of us appreciate our loved ones even more. We may think we get tired of them, but it's hard to stay away.
Congrats on the novel! Keep moving forward.
Congratulations, Mindy! That's such a wonderful achievement!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Erica! :)
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