Rhobin

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The Gilded Pen says

Now is your chance to help decide which two titles will be picked as The Gilded Pen Book Club's reads for July and win a copy of either DUCHESS BY NIGHT by Eloisa James or AFTER THE KISS by Suzanne Enoch!

Just check out the post on our club page to enter!
(http://www.shelfari.com/groups/11253/about)

Happy reading,
Amber
thegildedpen.com

posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

carolynhowardjohnson says

Dear Rhobin:

As a Shelfari friend, I thought I'd pass on to you a quiz I'm using to promote my new book, the 2nd in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers after the award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter is a must for writers and includes lots of good stuff important for any writer to know. It is, ta da! The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.

Check Your Sell-Your-Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz


Every writer should know the answer to these or know how to find out :


1. What is the rule posted by most agents and publishers I can break in order to sell my book faster?
2. How can a style sheet help me edit my book or work better with my editor?
3. Why do I need to know about indexing?
4. How can I corral Word's Spell Checker to help rather than hinder my editing process?
5. Why is editing important to getting a publisher or an agent when my publisher's editor will help me with that anyway?
6. Why should I rarely send out a cover letter rather than a query letter?
7. Why should I avoid using italics for internal dialogue? How do you avoid using them for internal dialogue?
8. What perfectly natural and grammar-perfect thing should I avoid telling an agent?
9. How can I turn adverbs that slow my narrative into metaphors?
10. How can I purge my copy of passive constructions using a computer?
11. How can code words in my document help avoid humiliation?
12. How do I avoid superfluous quotation marks that annoy agents and editors?


If you don't know the answers to most every one of these 12 questions without peeking you are sure to benefit from the newly released

The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success
available now on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/

It's already rocketed to Amazon's Top Ten List in its category!

It should be sitting on your shelf right next to the award-winning* first in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers,
The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't
by UCLA Extension Writers' Program Instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson

*Winner of USA Book News Best Professional Book 2004
*Winner of Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

DragonFlower says

Hi Rhobin ... back in July you added me as a friend under the username Adelaar. I've since deleted that "shelf" and have started a new "shelf" under this new username. Fits me better :-) Thanks for "friending" me again.

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

atoback says

Hi,Rhobin ... My daughters name is ... Robyn ... I'm retired/disabled, so have time to read and write. Currently working on finishing a suspence/mystery story. Alan

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

hollythomas1221 says

hi Rhobin where do you live and are you in a book club now?

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

Fina says

Hi Rhobin! We do have a lot of the same books - this should be fun.

Fina

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

KLNappier says

Hi, Rhobin. Many thanks for the add, and glad to be counted among your Shelfari friends.~Kathy

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

D K Gaston says

Michigan rules.

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

Kathe Gogolewski says

Hi Rhobin,
I look forward to sharing our favorite books with each other. :)
Kathe

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

alatariel says

Hi Rhobin,
Thanks for the friendship invite!

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

Alicia says

Hi Rhobin, Thanks for the friendship invite! Glad you like my children's books. I used them so much when I taught. I have many more that I didn't shelf here; takes too much time! Welcome to shelfari & hope you enjoy your time here!

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

JordanaRyan says

Thanks for adding me :) I look forward to getting to know you :)

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

carolynhowardjohnson says

Rhobin, I'm an author and I think. Shelfari has some real potential for increasing interest in reading and for authors to connect with readers. Thank you for inviting me!
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
www.howtodoitfrugally.com

posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )