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Monday, July 04, 2005

NEW! and Independence Day

Hi ho, MMMLOGerinos!

NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW!
I'm declaring independence from the separate NEW page on the site. From this day forward, I'll be posting all NEW schedule, articles, workshops links here in place of the weather report.

**NEW ARTICLE
Mmmmmelinda's Conference Homily:
The care and feeding of your fellow writers, editors and agents.


There few things I enjoy more than a good writer's conference, seeing
old friends, making new ones and hanging in the halls. It's like
going back to school, only better because there's usually a bar,
occasionally decent food and often opportunities to learn about
interesting new publishing trends, business buzz or fresh writing
techniques. But I didn't always feel so positive. . .

**NEW Tasty Excerpt Up for ESSENCE OF TRUST

Since my ad in the Summer Romance Sells, I've been getting lots of email about the ESSENCE OF TRUST excerpt on the site and I invite you to take a look at the excerpt here to see why! Oh. My.

INDEPENDENCE DAY
Most Fourth of July holidays are cool and rainy here in the Northwest, but this one is warm and sunny. We're even watering the lawn! That greedy green stuff is so addicted to the usually copious amounts of moisture that no rain for a day or two and it starts to look grayish. I swear I can feel the plants crying out for me to water them. Oh yeah? Well, if you don't believe it, just read polygraph expert Cleve Backster's groundbreaking research detailed in Primary Perception.

In any case, nice wet grass helps to keep it from scorching with all the fireworks. Though this year, shooting off fireworks is illegal in the city limits. I doubt that will stop our neighborhood from what always seems like WWIII with the rockets' red glare and firecrackers bursting in air. The smoke hangs so thick that you really can't see more than a few feet, much less breathe. And it goes on for hours, starting on July 3 will a few practice shots.

We're headed out to a barbeque and plan to be back early enough that the left-at-home Airedale doesn't freak when the action starts. Hope you all have a glorious Independence Day.

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMmelinda