Today’s post is two weeks’ worth of sunday status reports. Sorry about that.
May 2008
Go to, enjoy, and network at the conference (starting Thursday evening through Saturday night).
5/4: Got home around noon today. I made some wonderful contacts, received invitations to send two queries to agents in addition to the two awards. (3rd HM for Poetry Rhymed Long, “Paris, April 1998″ and the 1st is for How-to/Technical Article, “10 Tips for Getting Organized.”)
-Get back on blog schedules.
5/4: “Sunday Status Report” on Creatif
5/5: “Response to Judge’s Comments” on Creatif, “To MakeUp or Not to MakeUp” on Confessions of a Fat Chick, “Exercise: Cliches” on The Idea Pocket.
5/6: “Tip: Trust Yourself” on The Idea Pocket.
5/7: “I’ve Been Tagged” on Creatif, “Weight a Minute: I’ve Got to Do Something” on Confessions of a Fat Chick, and “Associated Sites” and “My Thoughts: Life in General” on The Idea Pocket.
5/9: “Been Working” on Creatif, “Camouflage” on Confessions of a Fat Chick, and “Quotable Friday” on The Idea Pocket.
5/10: “Source: Music” on The Idea Pocket
5/11: “Sunday Status Report” on Creatif
-After the conference, do one query a day. (I’m pretty dang close to that now as it is, so we’ll see how it goes.)
5/4: Thursday morning, I got one query in to an ad on Craigslist. I think it had to do with resumes, but I’d have to look at my “sent” file on Outlook Express to be sure.
5/6: Sent two queries, one to a magazine and the other to a business newsletter
5/7: Sent two queries, one in reply to an ad on Craigslist, one as a reply to an ad by Publishers Weekly on MediaBistro.
5/9: SUbmitted queries to write online for EthnicDenim.com and Sheckys.com.
5/10: Sent ground mail submission of a fantasy short story to Realms of Fantasy.
5/13: Sent two queries to Craigslist ads, one of which was to Global Entertainment News.
5/14: Sent one query in reply to a Craigslist ad.
5/20: Sent three queries in reply to Craigslist ads, one to a dating website, and one to Harvard Business School Publishing for a proofreader position.
5/21: Sent two queries in reply to Craigslist ads, one query ground mail to MediaOne of Utah, and one blog application as a Beauty blogger.
5/22: Sent a submission to WritingForDollars.com
-Send nonfiction proposals out to two agents.
5/4: One query will be going out tomorrow, as requested by an agent.
5/6: Due to delays in not being home, the query went out to the agent yesterday. (5/17-Received a rejection from the agent.)
-Send fiction queries out to two agents.
5/4: One query will be going out tomorrow, as requested by an agent.
5/10: Sent query & synopsis to Sourcebooks Casablanca imprint
-Edit Devon’s Wish (still haven’t started that).
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