-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
- June 2018
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- September 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- December 2015
- May 2013
- March 2013
- December 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- June 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- December 2009
- October 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
Tags
- 2015
- 4 hour body
- Aduana
- AEGBT
- amazon
- American Express Global Business Travel
- analysis
- animal communication
- Anne McCaffrey
- Aslan
- Atotonilco
- blogs
- Blue
- body fat
- book reviews
- books
- border crossing
- Canada
- centro
- challenge
- Charlie
- classes
- clicker training
- ClickerSolutions
- consulate
- diet
- dogs
- donations
- Doubting River
- downsizing
- driving in Mexico
- editing
- farm
- fat loss
- field
- fitness
- food
- general news
- genre conventions
- getting settled
- Guin
- Guinevere
- Harvey
- Heidi
- horses
- house
- house for sale
- ideas
- importing vehicles
- insulin
- intention
- internet
- inventory
- jack kruse
- job
- jury duty
- Laredo
- leptin reset
- Leslie Peeples
- Live Telecom
- low carb
- MegaCable
- menaje de casa
- Mexico
- monthly challenge
- monthly results
- move
- moving
- NaNoWriMo
- New Orleans
- new year's resolutions
- Nirvana
- novels
- Nuevo Laredo
- obesity
- organizing
- Paleo
- paula deen
- Pax
- permanent residence visa
- Pflouff
- plans
- plotters guide
- Polo
- Primal
- Princess
- publishing
- Rain
- Rainbow Bridge
- reinventing-melissa
- remodel
- research
- River
- Rosa
- Rosewood Hotel
- Rowan
- San Miguel de Allende
- screenwriting
- Slow Carb
- SMA
- social media
- story elements
- stuff
- T-Mobile
- tarot
- temporary import permit
- temporary residence visa
- TIP
- tourist visa
- trailer
- training
- travel
- visa
- visitor visa
- weather
- weekly update
- weight
- work
- writing
- writing projects
- year in review
- year-long challenge
Monthly Archives: July 2010
The winning pitch
Here is the pitch for Doubting River that was so favorably received at the conference:
Former runaway, Charm Freeman, returns to his old life in Nowheresville, MS, after his sister Marlie’s husband is killed in a car accident. Initially planning to fulfill his brotherly obligation then disappear for another twenty years, Charm reluctantly agrees to stay and help with Marlie’s injured son. The siblings clash, however, over how to best help the ten year old deal with the death of his father.
Before the accident, the boy and his father were training a neighbor’s retriever for a field trial. The boy desperately wants to fulfill his father’s dream, but his mother believes anything to do with the dog is a setup for heartache. The past belongs in the past; the way forward is forward. Against his sister’s wishes, Charm and the boy join together to turn an injured retriever into a champion, a journey that forces the family to face the issues that tore them apart, only to find salvation in the past they tried to forget.
Great conference!
Holy cow!! Both an agent and the editor requested FULLS. They both want to read the entire manuscipt!
I don’t know what to say. I’m blown away. Completely blown away.
OH MY GOD, IT’S NOT READY!
Oh well, I wanted a deadline — I guess I got it.
Honey, I need to quit my job. Something more important came up….
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
The 2010 PNWA conference starts tomorrow. I didn’t final in their contest (but I did win the mainstream category of The Sandy), but that’s okay. I got good scores and comments on the novel excerpt. (Less impressed with their screenplay judges.) Contest or no contest, I’m looking forward to the conference. I had a great time last year, and this year my friend Sharon is going with me.
I’ll get to pitch to two agents and an editor while I’m there. I need to work on my pitch, though. So far I’ve never really gotten that *look*, that “oh wow” from it. (Maybe that means my book is crap!!) Hopefully I can improve it, because I really want to make the best of these pitches.
No, the book isn’t finished. It will be soon though, so hopefully that will be okay. I’m just thinking of these pitches as practice pitches… but I wish I’d gotten the manuscript completely finished.
Actually, I’m HOPING to take a trip south in the fall. If I do, I’d love to do a final revision and add some more-authentic southern flavor to this southern novel. I mean, I *am* southern, so it’s not like it’s inauthentic, but I’d still love to add that extra layer of realism.