Monthly Archives: March 2012

Ultra Submission

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“pray unto your fears”  (MM)   Ultra is sent at last.  Many, many delays, almost all to do with the cover letter as I fiddled and edited and worried it until eventually it was as flat and as uninteresting as … Continue reading →

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Book Trailer for Commences

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

I was going to head this blog “And God created the bloody stupid” because I’ve spent most of today trying to upload my dismal little video clip that I put together and failing repeatedly.  Windows Movie Maker was designed for … Continue reading →

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Helpful comments on Cover Letters

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

I asked on Writers&Artists:  (http://www.writersandartists.co.uk) Cover Letters: the USP I’m struggling with a cover letter for an agent because I have been advised to add my “unique selling points.” The trouble is, I don’t have any. I haven’t published anything … Continue reading →

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Selling your soul in a cover letter

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“We are the nobodies…wanna be somebodies…”  (MM)   When submitting your work to an agent (forget publishers for the moment;  they’re not buying), not only do you have to send them your precious work – or a few chapters of … Continue reading →

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Mister Maestro

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“…I’m someone stupid just like you”  (MM) Last week in Waterstones, I asked for a bit of paper to write down book titles and they gave me a blank till print out, probably thinking I was going to go off … Continue reading →

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Riding the Rollercoaster

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“I’m someone else, I’m someone new…”  (MM) There is a drug some of my characters in Transference are forced to ingest which causes the usual mood swings you’d expect from a banned narcotic:  reading Transference seems to have the same … Continue reading →

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Lost in Alter-Space…again

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“but I’m just a pitiful anonymous”  (MM) Reading through my novel Transference with the intent of preparing for a new edit seems to be an exercise in murderous self-doubt and self-annihilation:  I’m tearing myself apart.  If I doubted my own … Continue reading →

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A time that wasn’t

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“nothing’s gonna change the world”  (MM)   I seem to remember a time that I thought my writing was okay.  Not brilliant perhaps – I was never going to be a literary genius – but at least I was readable, … Continue reading →

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