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71st and Northern: The Flotilla Cast - Miguel Herrera
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Thursday, September 11, 2008. The Flotilla Cast - Miguel Herrera. Miguel Herrera is a cool customer, a good friend and a dangerous enemy. Jim gets to see all three sides during his time on the Colony. He runs a floating gun range - the Barco de Arma - in among the other semi-legal business enterprises he is involved in. Jim's dad, Rick, is frequently Miguel's partner-in-crime. The door slid open and a short, squat Mexican peered out at us. “’Sup? 8221; he inquired. Dad pointed at me. “. 8221; I asked.
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71st and Northern: More Quirky Love
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Friday, October 2, 2009. Over at SFGate gave me some more love yesterday. I feel all fuzzy inside. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life on the Colony. Life on the Colony - The World of Flotilla. Flotilla - Half of the Synopsis. Flotilla - The First Chapter. Rick Westfield [Jim's Dad]. Sunol, CA, United States. View my complete profile. Starting Over - Published on Hackwriters.com.
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71st and Northern: December 2008
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Monday, December 22, 2008. First draft of 'Flotilla' is done. That's what I wanted to say more than anything else. This has been a tremendous project and I'm completely burnt at this moment but I'm glad I have this big, fat wad of typescript to show for it. I printed out 3 copies but I have the whole beast on PDF if anyone else wants to volunteer to read a 380-page PDF file :). I'm taking a break from writing - here or anywhere else. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life on the Colony.
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71st and Northern: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Again - major apologies for not keeping you posted. Things have been looking up - at least I'm moving in the right direction. Here's a recap of what has been happening with the novel:. In the past 6 months, I've sent 60 queries to different agents as referenced in the Writer's Marketplace. 60 queries, 30 rejections and one request for more of the novel that later turned into a rejection. I started talking to Joe Quirk. Over at SFGate.com. And my response was:. Let me just g...
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71st and Northern: Flotilla - Half of A Synopsis
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Thursday, September 11, 2008. Flotilla - Half of A Synopsis. This is the first half of the synopsis I'm sending to literary agents. I don't want to give away how the entire book goes but wanted to share where I am with you. What if you had to become a man at the edge of the world? Is there a difference? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life on the Colony. Life on the Colony - The World of Flotilla. Flotilla - Half of the Synopsis. Flotilla - The First Chapter. Rick Westfield [Jim's Dad].
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71st and Northern: New Stuff
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. My tremendous apologies for lack of updates - here's what has been happening:. I've been trying to get published. This is a tedious process with no clear, proven path and even less so for someone who hasn't been published before. There have been some bright spots and I wanted to share one of them with you:. Joe Quirk over at SFGate was sympathetic to my plight and had some interesting insights that became this blog post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life on the Colony.
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71st and Northern: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Ughbad news from the publishing world. Still. Getting published over at the Chron. More bad news that seems to suggest when you're a first-time novelist that the sanest thing you can do with your project is burn it and bury the ashes because no one - NO ONE - is accepting submissions from new comers. This is actually a good thing. Are losing cash and laying off people. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Updating the 'universe blog' - Pac-fish-D. All that being sai...
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71st and Northern: October 2009
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Friday, October 23, 2009. Joe was kind enough to work with me on producing a tighter query letter (Thank you, again) and I've started the process all over again with a new sheet of potential agents. I did find this tool that I thought you would be interested in:. Links to this post. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Links to this post. Friday, October 2, 2009. Over at SFGate gave me some more love yesterday. I feel all fuzzy inside. Links to this post. Starting Over" - Published on Hackwriters.com. I'm a writer&...
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71st and Northern: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Doing It All - A Short Story I forgot I wrote. Found this going through files; forgot I had it and I actually kind of enjoy it. See what you think. This thing in my gut is killing me. One of the tenets of pop hits in the seventies and eighties is, no cold endings. Take the last line of the song, repeat two or three times and start fading out on the fourth through the whatever. Somehow I guess it implies that the group would continue the song forever and ever. I guess I should be ...
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71st and Northern: Still...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life on the Colony. Life on the Colony - The World of Flotilla. Flotilla - Half of the Synopsis. Flotilla - The First Chapter. Rick Westfield [Jim's Dad]. Sunol, CA, United States. View my complete profile. Starting Over - Published on Hackwriters.com.