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Top Ten 2010 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
by Erin Brown

   

By Choice
The Best Resolution of All

by
Jennifer Paros

 
 

10. I Will Not Curse an Agent or an Editor for at Least One Month.  

Sure, it feels great, brings stress relief, and keeps you inspired to send out more query letters. But for just four weeks, hold off on the streams of, “Well, screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeww you, Mr. I Can’t Write So Therefore I Agent and Edit and Think I’m All High and Mighty Holding the Fate of the Literary World in My Grubby Little Hands!” Remember that agents and editors are often kind, generous souls with feelings just like you and they don’t enjoy at all not buying every book that comes across their desks. It’s just as hard for them to say, “No,” as it is for you to hear it (ok, not quite as hard, but still try for the resolution, it will bring good karma your way).  more...

   

I’ve always liked the New Year’s resolution; it is deciding purposefully to practice choice.  But what if, instead of just one Big Fat Choice, like Quit Smoking, or Lose Weight - what if the choice we think we are making for at least an entire year (if not a lifetime) is seen as comprised of an infinite number of choices of response we make moment by moment? This way, we start recognizing our choice in everything; no longer are we victims to anything.  Now, regardless of what we choose, we are aware of choosing.  And since choosing is our only power, we’ve got ourselves back in the driver’s seat.   And that’s the whole point of a New Year’s Resolution, to put ourselves back in charge of some area of our lives, back in creative control.  more...

 
               
               
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  Editor's Pick:
The
First Rule
reviewed by
Jon Land
   

The Sidekick: Better than Ten Thousand Relatives
by James Thayer

 
             
 

Was a time when Joe Pike played no more than sidekick to Elvis Cole, the sharp-tongued series sleuth featured in a bunch of thrillers by Robert Crais.  Well, no more.  The First Rule marks the second book Crais has let Pike out on his own, following The Watchman, to spectacular results. 

“So dig this,” a character blurts at one point, “those assholes are somewhere right now . . . and they do not know a storm is on the horizon and coming for them.” 

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The Red Swede, who was a yegg man, and a good one, sat over a pint of champagne with Dopey Polly, from Chinatown, and his side kick, the Runt This sentence from Helen Green’s At the Actor’s Boarding House (1906) is terrific because of the nicknames, the slang (a yegg man is a safecracker), the dissonance (a pint of champagne, not beer?), and, most importantly, the promise of a tale involving a sidekick.   more...

 
               

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