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Blog: Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Phenomenon Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Well, I had almost 100 new queries waiting in my inbox this morning. You'd think I'd been gone for months:)
Sent 35 rejections today, more than a dozen thank yous to various editors, and submissions, submissions, submissions.
My nugget of knowledge for the day is know your word count! Anything more than 150,000 is a hard sell to me. Any adult work less than 80,000 is an almost immediate no.
Young adult and childrens' works gets a little trickier. Middle-grade is liked somewhere between 35,000-50,000, but can run less or more.
Tomorrow I think I shall post some of my biggest querying pet peeves (which means don't use these items unless ya really wanna receive an on-the-spot no).

Blog: Critical Literacy in Practice - CLIP Podcast (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Teachers at work Behind the Scenes : A Ramadan Story On Today’s Show: A Ramadan Story by Celia Oyler: About a student teacher who took a chance and changed school for a number of children. Thank You to: Celia Oyler , for contributing to the show, as well as Mark, Andrea, Bayla, and Lucy for the station ID. [...]