It would be an obvious statement to say that no one cares about your work as much as you do. I sent three manuscripts to semi-friendly editors. Here are the results: One third of the editors responded. About half of that one third responded to my follow-up questions. For those who have not responded...
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I began the process of sending three manuscripts to personal editors. See this post: Another approach… for a brief description of our editors. My buddy Steve is my first choice to review the manuscripts, not because he’s an editor or writer. Mainly because he’s one of the smartest guys I know who will give...
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One of the long shots in this endeavor is that we've never been paid for our writing; not that we've never been published... Then we'll get the comments and reviews from the "editors". After a few more tweaks, we'll submit the manuscripts and see how they fly with agents. Besides, a good children's book...
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When we first began the process of brainstorming the book, we thought it would be cool to have the story take place sometime in the past, like decades ago. We considered the 1950s or 1960s even though none of us is a child of the '50s or '60s.
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The outline is like a road map. We knew where we started, of course, and we knew pretty much where we want the story to go. Our problem came from not having a road map to show us how to get from here to there.
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