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The Leaf Blower: November 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. The Hint Fiction Anthology is Here! Yesterday was an oddly joyful day. On the way to work, I got pulled over going nearly double the speed limit, but got off with a warning (and a little humiliation: the cop who pulled me over was. He just pointed to the side of the road and gave me the same look I give my dog. And… the Hint Fiction Anthology. Wall St...
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The Leaf Blower: March 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Taking a week "off". In honor of finishing my novel. I'm taking the week off from writing. So, in lieu of actually writing something, I'll leave you with a link to the hilarious "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. Bottom line: don't use quotation marks to denote "emphasis.". Posted by Brian Crawford. Monday, March 22, 2010. My book is DONE! Has bee...
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The Leaf Blower: July 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, July 27, 2010. What would Abe Lincoln do. with an iPad? A literary agent recently told me that the medical thriller is dead. At the. In February, she said that even established writers in the genre, like Robin Cook and Michael Palmer, are having a hard time. So, what's super hot right now? But, do you know what's even hotter than Amish love? Is still widely used —...
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The Leaf Blower: Email Intervention
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Has said "it's doubtful that anyone with an. At his workplace is writing good fiction." Now, I probably shouldn't take advice from a guy who got upset when his book was selected by Oprah's book club. But he has a point. It's no secret that the Internet and email are the biggest time wasters in modern history. When you have query letters out there, ever...
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The Leaf Blower: September 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Double-blind is done; The Leaf Blower takes a hiatus. Although I've already gotten rejected on half of the manuscript submissions, too. And, if the traditional publishing route doesn't work out, I will self-publish DOUBLE-BLIND and/or put it out as an e-book. Thanks again for reading. I will be back! Posted by Brian Crawford. View my complete profile.
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The Leaf Blower: May 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. As if I didn't have enough reasons to procrastinate on Monday mornings, now there's Page Critique Mondays. Check it out on Nathan Bransford's hugely popular blog. Nathan is a San Francisco literary agent, blogger, author, and overall superhuman - I don't know how he has time to sleep. So, would I ever submit my work? Posted by Brian Crawford. And by longe...
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The Leaf Blower: Vote for my story for the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition!
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Vote for my story for the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition! I had to come out of hiding to ask you, the one person still reading, to vote for my story, The Knight of Infinity. It was shortlisted for the Quantum Shorts flash fiction contest. Http:/ shorts.quantumlah.org/shortlisted-stories#vote. Posted by Brian Crawford. View my complete profile.
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The Leaf Blower: Still in the running...
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Still in the running. Good news on the. Query front: I got two more positive responses - with requests for material. One agent said he'd like to consider my project "if it's still available." As if someone was about to snatch it up at any moment. Lucky for him, it's still available. Just barely. Keep your fingers crossed for me! Posted by Brian Crawford.
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The Leaf Blower: June 2010
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Tuesday, June 29, 2010. I'm going to play in the NFL! People often ask me, if you get your book published, are you going to quit your job and write books for a living? If statistics have anything to say about it, the answer is NO. I don’t know the number, but I can assure you it’s far less than the 11,000 athletes who participated in the last Summer Olympics. An...I wrote a let...
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The Leaf Blower: Disturbia
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On quitting my day job to write for a year - and then going back to my day job and still trying to write. Updated every Tuesday. Monday, April 12, 2010. For my next book, I've been toying with the idea of writing something completely different, like a horror novel. I grew up reading horror books, but I've steered away from them over the past decade or so. I'm not sure why. I guess because so few of them are actually scary. And one of my other favorites, Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. By Chuck Palahniuk: Ju...
