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Weekly Agent Newsletter: The joys, the challenges, and the work of writing – Five Noteworthy Things from the desk of Diana Flegal

FIVE NOTEWORTHY THINGS

 

What would happen if you and I took a hiatus from social media? These survivors share their experience and what they learned.

 

A fiction submission requires a synopsis. This is not the request of a sadistic mind but a request for needed information. Jane Friedman posted a great article on what a fiction synopsis tells an editor and agent.

 

 

Book picks: Austin Kleon’s Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Wish I could read it now, but it releases in April).

Karen Swallow Prior’s: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books on   request at my public library

 

Tweeters I followed this week : Think Christian  and Karen Swallow Prior  

 

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