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Hi, Bonnie. Sorry this post took so long, but I was down and out with a cold last week. No pep at all. Okay, here’s how I did the short synopsis (not the one I worked from, that was a chapter by chapter one that was very detailed, this was the one I had toRead More
Hi Bonnie! Glad to help out. A synopsis for a novel (some people refer to it as an outline) is written in present tense. I usually type mine single-spaced, so when it’s submitted by my agent, it is readily distinguishable from the chapters that she submits. Synopses that are written for submission should be asRead More
I need to consult with Victoria Strauss before continuing the story, and I will invite her to begin posting here, because, from now on, it was HER story just as much as it was mine. Hope that’s okay with everyone? I asked Vic the other day if she wanted to join me in doing aRead More
A.C. Crispin ENTER A HERO: About this time, after the Deerings had been indicted, when law enforcement was paying attention to their scam, I spoke to agent Clay Mason, telling him about Martha Ivery, and asking him which office would handle the Catskills area of New York. Special Agent Mason told me it would beRead More
I think seeing the Deerings go down scared Kelly O’Donnell/Martha Ivery (Martha Ivery is her real name…she had at least 6 aliases at one time or another). Kelly had done some work with them…either “selling” books to Sovereign press, or possibly with the Deering Literary Agency “selling” book’s to Martha’s “PressTIGE” Publishing Company. Anyway, afterRead More
Hi, folks! I’m back after a relaxing, but rainy, week at the beach. Luckily Cape May has lots to do besides swim. The Victorian architecture is gorgeous, and most days we didn’t actually have rain, just clouds and a bit of drizzle here and there. We walked on the beach, took trolleys around the town,Read More
