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Or really, fiction writers of all sorts, but mostly for novelists.

I’m not sure what’s been going on for the past few days, but lately I’ve been meeting more and more publishing industry pros and aspiring novelists on Twitter. And along with that comes the influx of linkage.

Ok, so the single most important website for an aspiring novelist is Miss Snark. That’s a given. If you’ve never read this viciously wonderful agent, you need to. Go back to the very first post and read all the way up to her last (she’s hung up her stilettos for good) post. Take notes. Bookmark the Crapometer for when you’re getting ready to query. Read through it again. Take more notes. Follow all instructions and consider all advice. Just do it. Besides, it’s fun!

Now, Miss Snark I’ve known about for years, and have read almost every post on her site. However, #QueryFail is brand new. And it’s not a site; it’s a hashtag. In other words, it’s a stream of tweets from Twitter that are all on one subject, specially marked out using a hashtag. You don’t need to be a member of Twitter to read #QueryFail, but you do need an account if you want to respond to any of them.

What QueryFail is, is a day set aside by agent Colleen Lindsay for all Twitter savvy agents and editors to vent their query frustrations in the form of a 140 character tweet. Many of the tweets are actual lines from queries that the agent/editor rejected such as “Like my protagonist, I definitely could be described as overachiever, and I naturally have hair like Lady Godiva.”, “My book is about a friendship based upon mutual vomiting practices in high school.”, and my favorite- “This book is The Notebook meets The Lord of the Rings.”

You’ll need to scroll through several days of tweets about #queryfail if you choose to follow the above link to access it, but there’s a downloadable file of the actual QueryFail tweets from the actual day at that link.  The agents are planning to make this a regular thing, but no schedule has been set. And by the way? #QueryFail even got attention from The Guardian. No joke! There’s also a #novelfail, but I haven’t had much time to check into that.

And the third page that you may want to consider, is a 25 point list of why your fiction is being passed over, courtesy of Andromeda Spaceways. It’s funny, but not hilarious. Dirty, but not filthy. But all in all, a pretty good list.

Hey ya’ll!  Jersey Girl’s comment on my post for Big Head reminded me that I never gave you links to my other posts! (Warning: Clicking that link will bring you to a blog that is not for the faint of heart- but is usually very funny)

You see, this here is my personal blog. I also have a personal Disney blog, and a professional Disney blog. What with being sick and a little too obsessed with things like… *cough* playing games online *cough*…

So anyway… Some of my Diz posts will be here- the ones of the more personal “me and hubby” type, some will be on the personal Diz blog  “So, when Test Track broke down and we had to climb down the stairs…”, and some will be on my Disney Travel Tips blog.  Such as these three:

StormStruck at Epcot will blow your house down!

Review of Downtown Disney’s T-Rex Cafe includes a video by moi, as well as piccies. Also featuring the largest and most delicious dessert you will ever see.

And my take on American Idol Experience’s soft opening.

I’ll try and keep ya’ll updated when I post good stuff elsewhere. 

Yes, I’ve been gone. Yes, I sorta have good reasons. Sorta. Lets just say that it started with some health/mental/emotional issues that haven’t entirely gone away yet, but also includes a huge bout of productivity as the issues lessened.

I read through the entire Hollywood Nobody series. I read Tuck (Not due out till January or February). I re-read the Katie Parker series. And now I’m re-reading the MissMatch/ReMatch/MatchPoint series. Yes, YA does an unstable mind good.

I’m also hard at work on my holistic nutrition blog, my sushi blog, my help the economy blog… Um… And I keep MEANING to work on my local site. Yanno what I mean? I just never get around to that one.

And since I told hubs that I was going to work on my novel tonight, I can’t write a good long post! In case you didn’t guess, I didn’t finish NaNo. Not even close. And I really just don’t think I want to freelance professionally. So I’m working hard on my own sites, and plan to get back into crafting and noveling again. Wish me luck! Prayers accepted too.