the SIMMER blog

logline tips at writer unboxed

Today I'm over at Writer Unboxed, offering what I think is key advice for novel-writing success (other than, y'know, writing a great book and all that.) Shrink your logline! Which leads to the somewhat backwards sounding title:

subtract until you get the sum.

Click above to read.

read up in the roundup

Quick hello! I have a post up today at Intrepid Media, with my not-really-annual roundup of literary agent blogs. If you're an aspiring writer, or just curious about how this whole publishing thing works, it's a quick and informative read.

Click here to read: agents of change.

Have a great weekend!

a leftover snapshot

In the days after a dinner party, in the interest of not wasting leftovers, I generally eat pretty weird combinations of things. Almond gelato mixed with Nutella for breakfast. Tapenade-and-smoked-blue-cheese crostini for lunch. A dinner of short ribs cubed up and smushed in the pan so they render out and then fry in their own fat, shredded and dumped onto a Lean Cuisine mushroom and spinach pizza. Yeah. Things like that.

And I don't generally take pictures of these creations, but when I ran out of things to do with pre-made cocktail toasts and made them into tiny little open-face peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, they were too cute to resist.

 

Next time I might even do it on purpose.

wordless wednesday xl