Lucy A. Snyder

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Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

May 18, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The full title of this little book by Spencer Johnson is Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work […]

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Writing query letters for fiction or poetry markets

May 17, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Writing a query letter for fiction or poetry is a bit different from writing a query letter for a nonfiction piece. Short Fiction and Poetry […]

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How To Get A Goth Out Of A Tree

May 13, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Teddy was up on a low limb of the oak, clinging to the trunk and sobbing in terror. His thin body trembled in the cold […]

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Movie Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

May 12, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

My husband and I found Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to be a fun film. My mom would have gotten a kick out […]

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Movie Review: Underworld

May 11, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

My husband and I rented the 2003 vampire/werewolf action flick Underworld this evening, hoping for a bit of fun, entertaining eye candy. And while this […]

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Dealing with rejections from editors

May 10, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 1

In the inevitable event that you get a rejection letter from a publisher, you should, in the vast majority of cases, not take it personally. […]

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Is the publisher just a middleman?

May 6, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“The publisher is just the middleman!” I’ve heard many an aspiring writer make a statement to this effect. And, really, who can blame them? We […]

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What can happen if you accidentally plagiarize

May 5, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Most of us first encounter the notion of plagiarism while we’re in school. Countless schoolkids unwittingly become plagiarists when they write their first few research […]

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Secret (Literary) Agent Man

May 3, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The Traditional Path To Being Agented When you’re trying to sell your first novel, you’re stuck in a terrible Catch-22: many publishers won’t look at […]

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Finding or Creating a Writer’s Workshop Group

May 3, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

You’ve reached a certain level in your writing and you realize that you need feedback from people other than your friends in order to improve […]

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror

April 30, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror is an anthology series of — you guessed it — fantasy and horror that St. Martin’s Press has been […]

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Getting Your Work Published

April 29, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Okay. You’ve written your story or poem. You think it’s good. Your friends say it rocks. Your creative writing instructor gave it an “A” and […]

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