Geoneutrino Girl

Hurrah for geoneutrinos! The Earth holds such unexpected wonders, like antimatter particles buried deep within the interior. What's even more amazing is the fact that we scruffy bipedal humans discovered their existence, for as Clara Moskowitz notes, "These particles are incredibly difficult to find, because they pass through almost everything without interacting in any way."

Doesn't Geoneutrino sound like a super heroine's alias? Geoneutrino Girl! Right . . . I think I'll let someone else write that story! But you can check out Clara's article below.

Moskowitz, Clara. Weird Antimatter Particles Disovered. Retrieved June 6, 2010 from:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37951862/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001

Progress Report Nonillion (1+30 zeroes)

Today, after much procrastination, I hit the 30,000 word mark on a draft I'm working on. Yay, right? I know many of the words are so-so and will need to be revised or outright annihilated, not to mention I'm missing at least 30,000 additional words. But I've made it halfway. Now I have to finish it, or the protagonist will never forgive me, not after the royal mess I got him into! And as anyone with Scribbler's Syndrome can attest, you don't want the character voices sharing your brain to hold grudges against you.

"Halfway" is such a charged word. It's like a coin rolling on the edge, a fifty-fifty chance of tails or heads, win or lose. But sooner or later the coin is going to fall, so you know you have to take the chance.

I'm a Facebook fan of the amazing writer Paulo Coelho, which means I get these nifty updates. Today's nugget of wisdom is "The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself / Lo visible es siempre un espejo de lo invisible. La realidad es imaginada antes de revelarse."

Thelonius, we're halfway to manifestation! Or a manuscript, anyway. Splendid.

Work Cited:

Coelho, Paulo. Retrieved June 23, 2010 from:
http://www.facebook.com/paulocoelho?v=feed&story_fbid=189638762807

So you want to query, do you?

What? Did you think I was going to tell you how to write a fabulous query letter? I'd rather slay a Jabberwocky. But you could always check out Writing World.

Seriously, check it out.
http://www.writing-world.com/queries/query.shtml

My marvelous agent Natalie Lakosil's template for a good query letter:
http://www.adventuresinagentland.com/2010/11/template-for-good-query.html

She also included a link on Query Tips:
http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx

Or you could ask author/former literary agent Nathan Bransford about the "anatomy of a good query letter."
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2006/11/anatomy-of-good-query-letter.html

I'll be posting additional links as I find query letter examples that I believe are helpful.