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We have safely returned to the Center of the Universe (complete with a warm, if uniquely feline, welcome home). It is good be back in California — water is much cheaper and easier to find here. We left SXSW with a notebook full of items of interest to writers, and will hopefully dig deep into our lazy soul to share them. Until such time (our other welcome home gift is a trip to Culver City for fun and work. Not necessarily in that order), we continue to bring you the same high level of service you’ve come to expect. In […]

After our last rant, we thought we’d take a little break and contemplate life. No fun, that. We merely moved to the next item on our list (we are experimenting with the concept of getting things done — so far the things are winning). And read an article that made it all clear. It doesn’t matter how serious you are or what color your cover is; fiction is all about telling a story. I you can have a part in changing your world while doing it, that is it’s own reward. The writing reflects the rising discontent in the kingdom

In our ongoing effort to keep you occupied beyond your wildest dreams, we present some light reading. And a gentle reminder that query letters are hard to write. Really hard. Query Letters I Love

We are as susceptible to media overload as the next person. In our case, this resulted in an uninformed but rational decision to bypass Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. Luckily, Gladwell personally sold us on his book (okay, us and like 3,000 other people, but it felt very one-on-one there in the standing room only crowd). The book suggests that many decisions are made without detailed information, even in situations where it appears a large amount of information is being gathered. In certain cases, the lack of information leads to better decision making. In his SXSW keynote speech, Gladwell recounted the story