Leslie Dow

I am a very sharp tool.

  1. Epic Fail and What Happened to my Wordcount???

    BootCamp ate my lunch!
    Me the high wordcount goddess slid in with a lousy 62,484 words for June! Holy Moly that's my worst month this year!!!!

    What Happened?
    Like the slightly OCD program manager (PM) that I am, I had to hold my own Post-Mortem (or post-partum in trendy ...
  2. School is out for Summer

    And boy howdy. Anyone else dealing with the pitter pat of tiny (and in my case that means men's size 13) feet as the trip through the house all day.
    "Mom, where's the soda?"
    "Mom, the remote's out of batteries."
    "Mom, I can't find my ___________" ...
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  3. Primed for Bootcamp

    This month I Iogged over 100K new and edited words.
    I was racing to get my fourth draft of A Fault in Time complete so I can start my new YA sci fi romance adventure The Box for Boot Camp and I want to start querying the silly thing!

    This afternoon, I made it. I reached the end of the Fourth Draft, and blogged it, ...
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  4. Savvy Newsletter Blogging Tips

    I'm the Savvy Newsletter editor and a avid blogger.

    It's a great way to let the resources of the Savvy Site, like indexing by search engines, promote your next publication and build a web presence. And it's super easy!

    Here's a helpful list of things to remember when ...
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  5. Genre confusion

    Oh boy. What genre is your manuscript? What genre is mine?

    I see this question asked all the time and I ask it a lot, too. I've been researching this and have some information, ideas and some wacky.

    Wikipedia, that good place to start, has a list.
    But is has some ...
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