I really don’t know how I connected with this well designed and well written site for writers, but I am glad I did.

Camy Tang, www.camytang.com, is a Christian romance writer, focusing on Asian American characters.   She describes her genre:

Nosy relatives, sibling rivalry, and parental angst are the same whatever your ethnic background, and I hope my stories give people a fun taste of Asian American culture.

Although I have not yet read her work, I have read her articles on writing.  If she writes anywhere near her understanding of the mechanics of novel writing, she will no doubt receive due recognition.

I encourage you to read her articles.  They are succinct and supported with great examples.  Her writing is easily digested and punctuated with humor. 

These articles serve not only the novice fiction writer, but the mid-list writer.  If you read Camy’s suggestions, and are able to dissect and analyze your own pieces with a modicum of objectivity, you might find the answer to pushing your writing efforts out of the midlist.

Marketing, perseverence, discipline and talent are the essentials to boost sales.  Read Camy Tang and let me know what you think.

www.camytang.com

If you are like me, you will send out one inquiry or submission and think you will remember when you did it.  After all, it is only a handful.  How could you forget the details of something you are so passionate about?

It is easy.  Forgetting is easy.  So, to avoid having to perform agonizing mental gymnastics, I put together a template to track submissions or any other related task for that matter. 

It includes not only the date sent, but the response date.   Contact information comes in handy too.

I posted this as one of the pages on the right side of this blog, because I didn’t see a function that would permit me to link directly to the document…so, in order to view the manuscript submission template, look to the right of the screen under the category:  Template. 

Check it out. Hopefully, this will work for you.

Manuscript Submission Tracking Template

We spend so much time blogging and looking for good, consistent blogs on writing that when you find a great list already compiled, you feel like you hit the mother lode.  You feel like sharing it with the world.

And so I hit the mother lode yesterday.  Christina Laun obviously has good taste and spends a lot of time online.  She has compiled one of the most comprehensive list of writing blogs I’ve ever come across.  She categorized and wrote a short summary of each contribution. 

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/02/05/top-100-creative-writing-blogs/

I encourage you to rummage through the 100 she has targeted as the BEST.  Pick out a couple to follow.  One of my favorites is Randy Ingermanson’s Advanced Fiction.  I just started looking at Laun’s selections, so I may have more that are worth following.

Let me know what you think of her list.