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A Panel of Writers Discusses How they Got Their Agents

I don’t know about you, but I’m currently looking for an agent. Here’s a podcast panel with five agented writers talking about how they connected with those all-important partners in the publishing business.

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I just created a new collection of digital landscape paintings on Fine Art America, These colorful works are based on photographs I took out of the window of Amtrak's Zephyr. #digital #landscapes #prints #artwork #FineArtAmerica #colorful #Colorado #west Spring is coming. This morning I added some new photos to my Dreamstime portfolio, https://www.dreamstime.com/bluerabbit_info The Bridge Series photographs inspired my 1990s acrylic paintings on canvas. https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/the-bridge-series-photographs/ #photographs #BridgeSeries #Pasadena #California #Bridges #lightandshadow #abstract #abstactphotography

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    Places to Submit for Free

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    Building a resume is important, but it’s hard when so many journals and small publications charge for submissions. Sign up for this newsletter and you will be notified of places to submit for free. It’s an inbox treasure.

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    I just created a new collection of digital landscape paintings on Fine Art America, These colorful works are based on photographs I took out of the window of Amtrak's Zephyr. #digital #landscapes #prints #artwork #FineArtAmerica #colorful #Colorado #west Spring is coming. This morning I added some new photos to my Dreamstime portfolio, https://www.dreamstime.com/bluerabbit_info The Bridge Series photographs inspired my 1990s acrylic paintings on canvas. https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/the-bridge-series-photographs/ #photographs #BridgeSeries #Pasadena #California #Bridges #lightandshadow #abstract #abstactphotography Why I love living in beautiful Western Colorado. New photos in my Adobe Stock portfolio, https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/9940/Linda%20Armstrong I've created a page for my Bridge Series, a group of paintings I did in the nineties when we were still living in Los Angeles. https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/the-bridge-series/. It was the second series of abstracts I did with the same working process I use now--photographic studies, then loosely representational paintings, then abstract paintings. #art #abstract #EarlyWork #acrylics #paintings #California #Pasadena #bridges #LightandShadow I just added a page to the Journey section of my website. It features some of the photographs I used as reference for my Bridge Series acrylics on canvas. See the page here: https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/the-bridge-series-photographs/ I just added a new page to the creative journey section of my website. It shares some of the pastel drawings I did in shared model groups at Barnsdall art park. These are all costumed models. I'm going to devote a separate page to the nudes. https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/barnsdall-figurative-pastels/ My early paintings in the eighties featured people of Southern California doing 80s SoCal things, This one was some women considering handmade quilts at the Rose Bowl flea market, Some were from sketches and others from photo notes. #painting #acrylic #figurative #myjourney #creativejourney #California #quilts #contemporary #earlywork #1980s I'm uploading pictures from my artistic journey to the bio section of my blog. This one is from the nineties when we lived in Los Angeles. To see more visit https://lindaarmstrongsportfolio.wordpress.com/166-2/linda-j-armstrong-studio/about/
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      How to Structure a Picture Book

      How to Structure a Picture Book

      Even if you have not signed up for Julie Hedlund’s fantastic 12 x 12 (Twelve picture book manuscripts in twelve months) program, you can benefit from her line-up of featured authors, editors, and agents. First up this year, author and consultant Emma Walton Hamilton offers a super mini-course in picture book construction. If you have a manuscript, or just an idea, take a few minutes to read it. You won’t be sorry.

      An Agent Critiques First Pages

      An Agent Critiques First Pages

      You only have a few paragraphs to capture a reader, whether a buyer on a site or in a bookstore, or a publishing professional. In this great post from Kathy Temean, agent  Sean McCarthy critiques first page submissions from three different children’s book authors.

      NaNoWriMo Is for First Drafts

      NaNoWriMo Is for First Drafts

      Here’s a great post about what NaNoWriMo is great for, and what it is not. It will help you create a first draft and get down unexpected ideas. A draft like that will need many revisions. Leave your finished work alone for a while at the end of the month. Then go back and start the work of reshaping, adding, and cutting that will make your story work.

      From the LitReactor Blog, Here’s a Great Post for Writers

      If you want to get published, here’s a good article to read.

      Questions Every Writer Should Be Asking But Isn’t | LitReactor.

      What NOT to Include in Your First Pages

      Here’s an article I’m going to be studying. You might want to take a look, too. It summarizes what sends up red flags for readers (agents or not).

      Writer Unboxed » What NOT to Do When Beginning Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents.

      FIRST FIVE FRENZY with Amy Boggs of The Donald Maass Literary Agency | chasingthecrazies

      Here’s an interview with a top literary agent about the first five pages of your novel. Amy Boggs is currently open to queries. See her preferences on the Donald Maass Literary Agency site. (Also, be sure to read The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. It’s amazing!)

      FIRST FIVE FRENZY with Amy Boggs of The Donald Maass Literary Agency | chasingthecrazies.

      Danielle Smith of Foreword Literary

      This new agent may be just the partner you are looking for. She is seeking picture books, early readers, and other books for children. Read about her on WritersDigest.com!

      New Literary Agent Alert: Danielle Smith of Foreword Literary | WritersDigest.com.

      How to Choose the Right Tone for Your Query Letter

      If you are writing a query letter, you might want to click on the link below and read the short post first. It’s very informative.

      re: What’s the Right Tone for a Query Letter? | DearEditor.com.