On Tuesday, February 7th, http://www.wordwranglers.blogspot.com will
host Lyrical Press Editor, Piper Denna.
Piper will be taking 1-3 line pitches.
The rules are simple:
1. Contest opens at 7:00 A.M. EST and closes at
Midnight
2. 1-3 lines
3. 1 pitch per person
That's it. We're easygoing over at Wordwranglers, but
if you break the rules, you'll be disqualified.
Don't miss this chance to get your pitch in front of an
editor!
Piper's bio:
Writing
is a craft, a skill which improves with practice. Grammar can be
learned.
Spelling...notsomuch.
Either you're good at spelling, or you're not. And unfortunately, Spellcheck
might be helpful, but let's face it: it's only as good as its programmers, and
we all know how many problems certain software programs have. Which is why, no
matter who you are, no matter what you write, you need an editor. If you don't
believe me, ask Stephen King-we're very close. Like two peas in a pod. (At
least, in my mind, which I mean in a completely un-stalkerlike
way.)
Now
that I'm done name-dropping... Books have always been my thing. And I've been a
writer since I could pick up a pencil. My thoughts didn't turn toward writing
professionally until about 2005, when I wrote three novels. Through a couple of
critique groups and thousands of crits, both given and received, I honed my
craft quite a lot. So much so, in 2008 after watching two of my books go through
the editing process at publishers, I got the wild idea (the wild, incredibly
overconfident idea, in retrospect), that I could do that.
My
poor authors have to learn my lingo: "Innerds"-deep third inner thoughts from a
character, generally requested as a replacement for narrative ("She wondered why
he hadn't arrived yet" comes off much stronger as "Where the hell was he
already?") or "Holding Pattern", which I type as a shortcut to remind an author
to mix up sentence structure, rather than going with a repetitive
subject/predicate format every time.
And
I still write. (When I have time, and when I can tranquilize that inner editor
enough to shut her up so I can type.) My characters must endure extensive
suffering and conflict, and sometimes they do things certain readers don't
approve of, but they always get their happy ending.
What
kind of books do I prefer to edit? Deep conflict, relatable characters,
believable plots, and a strong romantic element. Because romance makes the world
go round. Right?
Piper
Denna
Romance
is sexy!
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