by SMThornton | Sep 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m not going to lie. I love writing queries. I love queries as much as I hate writing a synopsis and that’s about as much as I hate getting shots. (Okay, I pass out when I get shots so maybe that’s not accurate, but whatever. You get the point.)One...
by SMThornton | Sep 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Saturday I attended the Alaska Writer’s Guild Conference and had the opportunity to listen to uber-agents Andrea Brown and Janet Reid (who happens to be hilarious). My brain is still percolating with all the great info I learned from both lovely ladies, but...
by SMThornton | May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
The last two weeks of grading gave me a taste of what life might be like as an agent. I could never, ever be an agent. School got out on Thursday, but here’s what I graded in the two weeks before that:1. 66 Semester Finals2. 48 Projects3. 48 Speeches4. 114...
by SMThornton | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
I don’t write mysteries, but I loved this video Janet Reid posted on her blog the other day.I’ve killed off characters before, to the extent that if I really were my protagonists, I’d be a serial killer. However, I’ve never actually had a...
by SMThornton | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” -AnonymousI am not a patient woman. No sirree Bob. I thought my daughter taught me patience (what else can you learn when you...
